Transcription
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- US Pronunciation
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- UK Pronunciation
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- [kohn]
- /koʊn/
- /kəʊn/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [kohn]
- /koʊn/
Definitions of cone word
- countable noun cone A cone is a shape with a circular base and smooth curved sides ending in a point at the top. 3
- countable noun cone A cone is the fruit of a tree such as a pine or fir. 3
- countable noun cone A cone is a thin, cone-shaped biscuit that is used for holding ice cream. You can also refer to an ice cream that you eat in this way as a cone. 3
- noun cone a geometric solid consisting of a plane base bounded by a closed curve, often a circle or an ellipse, every point of which is joined to a fixed point, the vertex, lying outside the plane of the base. A right circular cone has a vertex perpendicularly above or below the centre of a circular base. Volume of a cone: 1⁄3πr2h, where r is the radius of the base and h is the height of the cone 3
- noun cone a geometric surface formed by a line rotating about the vertex and connecting the peripheries of two closed plane bases, usually circular or elliptical, above and below the vertex 3
- noun cone anything that tapers from a circular section to a point, such as a wafer shell used to contain ice cream 3
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Origin of cone
First appearance:
before 1480 One of the 25% oldest English words
1480-90; < Latin cōnus < Greek kônos pine-cone, cone-shaped figure; akin to hone1
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Parts of speech for Cone
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
cone popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 96% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
cone usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for cone
noun cone
- pyramid — Architecture. (in ancient Egypt) a quadrilateral masonry mass having smooth, steeply sloping sides meeting at an apex, used as a tomb. (in ancient Egypt and pre-Columbian Central America) a quadrilateral masonry mass, stepped and sharply sloping, used as a tomb or a platform for a temple.
- conoid — a geometric surface formed by rotating a parabola, ellipse, or hyperbola about one axis
- raceme — a simple indeterminate inflorescence in which the flowers are borne on short pedicels lying along a common axis, as in the lily of the valley.
- strobile — a reproductive structure characterized by overlapping scalelike parts, as a pine cone or the fruit of the hop.
- pine cone — the cone or strobile of a pine tree.
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