Cone
noun
A shape with a flat round or oval base and a top that ends in a point.
She dropped her ice cream cone on the sidewalk.
Often appears as...
- ice cream cone
- traffic cone
noun
A piece of road equipment that is shaped like a cone and that is placed on a road to prevent vehicles from going where repairs are being done.
There were several traffic cones marking the construction zone.
Often appears as...
- traffic cone
- safety cone
noun
A fruit of a pine tree.
The squirrel was munching on a pine cone.
Often appears as...
- pine cone
- fir cone
noun
A device that strengthens electric signals in a stereo or television.
The speaker cone in his stereo was damaged.
Often appears as...
- speaker cone
- loudspeaker cone
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Technical
noun
One of the light-sensitive cells in the retina of the eye that provides color perception and sharp central vision.
Damage to the cones in your eyes can lead to color blindness.
Often appears as...
- eye cone
- cone cell
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Academic
noun
A shape with a flat round or oval base and a top that ends in a point.
She dropped her ice cream cone on the sidewalk.
Often appears as...
- ice cream cone
- traffic cone
noun
A piece of road equipment that is shaped like a cone and that is placed on a road to prevent vehicles from going where repairs are being done.
There were several traffic cones marking the construction zone.
Often appears as...
- traffic cone
- safety cone
noun
A fruit of a pine tree.
The squirrel was munching on a pine cone.
Often appears as...
- pine cone
- fir cone
noun
A device that strengthens electric signals in a stereo or television.
The speaker cone in his stereo was damaged.
Often appears as...
- speaker cone
- loudspeaker cone
Usage tips
Technical
noun
One of the light-sensitive cells in the retina of the eye that provides color perception and sharp central vision.
Damage to the cones in your eyes can lead to color blindness.
Often appears as...
- eye cone
- cone cell
Usage tips
Academic
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Pro Tip 1/2Common Shapes
The term 'cone' also describes shapes resembling an ice cream cone in math and everyday objects.
A party hat is often in the shape of a cone.
Pro Tip 2/2Component Naming
'Cone' can be used to name parts shaped like cones, found in machines or designs.
The robot's arms ended in cone-like grippers.
Pro Tip 1/2Common Shapes
The term 'cone' also describes shapes resembling an ice cream cone in math and everyday objects.
A party hat is often in the shape of a cone.
Pro Tip 2/2Component Naming
'Cone' can be used to name parts shaped like cones, found in machines or designs.
The robot's arms ended in cone-like grippers.
Pro Tip 1/2Common Shapes
The term 'cone' also describes shapes resembling an ice cream cone in math and everyday objects.
A party hat is often in the shape of a cone.
Pro Tip 2/2Component Naming
'Cone' can be used to name parts shaped like cones, found in machines or designs.
The robot's arms ended in cone-like grippers.
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Rick Guidotti: From...
he'd come home from school, and I could see the kids were teasing him, and he'd be in tears. And I'd buy him an ice-cream cone, or a toy truck, and he'd forget about it." She said, "Now he's in high school. He comes home from school, I can see the pain, the anguish in his eyes. He walks in, he walks right past me,
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Why certain naturally...
At those temperatures, the cones burst open, releasing millions of seeds, which are carried by the hot air to form new forests. After the fire, carbon-rich soils and an open sunlit landscape help lodgepole seeds germinate quickly and sprout in abundance.
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Symbiosis: A surprising...
This symbiosis is so important to both species that they've changed, or evolved, to suit each other. Nutcrackers have developed long, tough beaks for extracting seeds from cones, and whitebarks' branches all sweep upwards with the cones at the very ends,
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The voices in my head PIPE...
The day I left home for the first time to go to university was a bright day brimming with hope and optimism. I'd done well at school. Expectations for me were high, and I gleefully entered the student life of lectures, parties and traffic cone theft.
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The sonic boom problem -...
that the picture changes dramatically. As it overtakes sound waves it has emitted, while generating new ones from its current position, the waves are forced together, forming a Mach cone. No sound is heard as it approaches an observer
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Elon Musk: A future...
Or at least that's the goal. Right. And moreover, recovering it in such a way that it can be immediately re-flown. Whereas with Falcon 9, we still need to do some amount of refurbishment to the booster and to the fairing nose cone.
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Creating materials...
impulses in a very precise way and this technology has been around for thirty years under the hand and the world of nature shape memory behavior has been around for 1.5 million years well you can see from the pine cone the shape
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Killer Cone Snails PIPE...
when some cone snails go hunting they like to burrow into the sand and wait when a meal happens by the cone snail fires its harpoon the poisons quickly paralyze the fish once its prey is helpless the cone snail retracts it
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Poison in a Cone PIPE...
when some cone snails go hunting they like to burrow into the sand and wait when a meal happens by the cone snail fires its harpoon the poisons quickly paralyze the fish once its prey is helpless the cone snail retracts it
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Giant Hornets Massacre...
the Hornets pay little attention to the few surviving bees the motivation for the attack lies within the cones outside
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Rick Guidotti: From...
he'd come home from school, and I could see the kids were teasing him, and he'd be in tears. And I'd buy him an ice-cream cone, or a toy truck, and he'd forget about it." She said, "Now he's in high school. He comes home from school, I can see the pain, the anguish in his eyes. He walks in, he walks right past me,
Video examples
Why certain naturally...
At those temperatures, the cones burst open, releasing millions of seeds, which are carried by the hot air to form new forests. After the fire, carbon-rich soils and an open sunlit landscape help lodgepole seeds germinate quickly and sprout in abundance.
Video examples
Symbiosis: A surprising...
This symbiosis is so important to both species that they've changed, or evolved, to suit each other. Nutcrackers have developed long, tough beaks for extracting seeds from cones, and whitebarks' branches all sweep upwards with the cones at the very ends,
Video examples
The voices in my head PIPE...
The day I left home for the first time to go to university was a bright day brimming with hope and optimism. I'd done well at school. Expectations for me were high, and I gleefully entered the student life of lectures, parties and traffic cone theft.
Video examples
The sonic boom problem -...
that the picture changes dramatically. As it overtakes sound waves it has emitted, while generating new ones from its current position, the waves are forced together, forming a Mach cone. No sound is heard as it approaches an observer
Video examples
Elon Musk: A future...
Or at least that's the goal. Right. And moreover, recovering it in such a way that it can be immediately re-flown. Whereas with Falcon 9, we still need to do some amount of refurbishment to the booster and to the fairing nose cone.
Video examples
Creating materials...
impulses in a very precise way and this technology has been around for thirty years under the hand and the world of nature shape memory behavior has been around for 1.5 million years well you can see from the pine cone the shape
Video examples
Killer Cone Snails PIPE...
when some cone snails go hunting they like to burrow into the sand and wait when a meal happens by the cone snail fires its harpoon the poisons quickly paralyze the fish once its prey is helpless the cone snail retracts it
Video examples
Poison in a Cone PIPE...
when some cone snails go hunting they like to burrow into the sand and wait when a meal happens by the cone snail fires its harpoon the poisons quickly paralyze the fish once its prey is helpless the cone snail retracts it
Video examples
Giant Hornets Massacre...
the Hornets pay little attention to the few surviving bees the motivation for the attack lies within the cones outside
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Jamal Crawford
American Athlete
Like, I don't do drills at all. I think that's why a lot of people who handle the basketball, I think mine looks different. You know, 'cause I've never done a drill. I've never done 'get to a chair and go through your legs,' or 'get to a spot and a cone and go through your legs or behind your back.
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Julianne Moore
American Actress
My kids have always been allowed to have dessert. My husband thinks I'm too free and easy about that kind of stuff, but my kids will throw out a half-eaten ice cream cone if they've had enough, which I've never in my life been able to do.
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Harry Kewell
It was a great learning curve because I knew I could put on a session, but I couldn't set out cones straight! That's one of the hardest things to do in coaching, little things like that to be able to prepare a session properly.
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Erik Prince
American Businessman
We have the finest officers in the world, but it seems like once they become generals it is a self-licking ice cream cone of who gets promoted and who gets approved to join that club. No one thinks outside the box.
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Erik Estrada
American Actor
My grandfather taught me generosity. He sold snow cones in Harlem. I went with him at 5 and he let me hand out the change and snow cones. I learned a lot in the couple of years that we did that.
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Maura Higgins
Irish Model
Driving around the back roads and doing a donut around a cone, that was my life growing up.
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Charles M. Schulz
American Cartoonist
Life is like an ice-cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time.
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Daniel Schwartz
American Businessman
For the life of me, I could not make a good-looking ice-cream cone.
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Laura Linney
American Actress
I crave a cone of silence every once in while.
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Kirstin Maldonado
American Musician
I love snow cones.
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Jamal Crawford
American Athlete
Like, I don't do drills at all. I think that's why a lot of people who handle the basketball, I think mine looks different. You know, 'cause I've never done a drill. I've never done 'get to a chair and go through your legs,' or 'get to a spot and a cone and go through your legs or behind your back.
Quote examples
Julianne Moore
American Actress
My kids have always been allowed to have dessert. My husband thinks I'm too free and easy about that kind of stuff, but my kids will throw out a half-eaten ice cream cone if they've had enough, which I've never in my life been able to do.
Quote examples
Harry Kewell
It was a great learning curve because I knew I could put on a session, but I couldn't set out cones straight! That's one of the hardest things to do in coaching, little things like that to be able to prepare a session properly.
Quote examples
Erik Prince
American Businessman
We have the finest officers in the world, but it seems like once they become generals it is a self-licking ice cream cone of who gets promoted and who gets approved to join that club. No one thinks outside the box.
Quote examples
Erik Estrada
American Actor
My grandfather taught me generosity. He sold snow cones in Harlem. I went with him at 5 and he let me hand out the change and snow cones. I learned a lot in the couple of years that we did that.
Quote examples
Maura Higgins
Irish Model
Driving around the back roads and doing a donut around a cone, that was my life growing up.
Quote examples
Charles M. Schulz
American Cartoonist
Life is like an ice-cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time.
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Daniel Schwartz
American Businessman
For the life of me, I could not make a good-looking ice-cream cone.
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Laura Linney
American Actress
I crave a cone of silence every once in while.
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Kirstin Maldonado
American Musician
I love snow cones.
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