cone

CEFRA2

/ˈkəʊn/

noun

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A solid shape with a round base and pointed top.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A solid of revolution formed by rotating a triangle around one of its altitudes.

Examples

  • Can you give me the definition of a cone?

  • I think I will have one more ice cream cone.

At a glance

Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
1
Synonyms
5

Also pronounced

  • /ˈkon/
  • /ˈkoʊn/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. A space formed by taking the direct product of a given space with a closed interval and identifying all of one end to a point.

  2. A surface of revolution formed by rotating a segment of a line around another line that intersects the first line.

  3. Anything in the general shape of a cone.

More examples

In context

  • Under the old method the material coned at the bottom of the borehole and as a result it would not go under houses and buildings.

  • A cone is an object (the apex) and a natural transformation from a constant functor (whose image is the apex of the cone and its identity morphism) to a diagram functor. Its components are projections from the apex to the objects of the diagram and it has a “...

  • The area occupied by the works should be coned off and the usual advance warning signs should be provided on all approaches

Synonyms

Quick test

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Question 1 · Quick check

The ice cream vendor handed the child a sugar blank filled with vanilla.

Practise this properly in the app, where the word comes back before you forget it.

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Origin

noun

From Middle English cone (“corner, angle”) and conoun (“cone”), from Medieval Latin cōnus, cōnon (“cone, wedge, peak”), from Ancient Greek κῶνος (kônos, “cone, spinning top, pine cone”). Reinforced by Middle French cone, from the same Graeco-Latin source.