Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - cone
Cone
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n. & v. --n. 1 a solid figure with a circular (or other curved) plane base, tapering to a point. 2 a thing of a similar shape, solid or hollow, e.g. as used to mark off areas of roads. 3 the dry fruit of a conifer. 4 an ice-cream cornet. 5 any of the minute cone-shaped structures in the retina. 6 a conical mountain esp. of volcanic origin. 7 (in full cone-shell) any marine gastropod mollusc of the family Conidae. 8 Pottery a ceramic pyramid, melting at a known temperature, used to indicate the temperature of a kiln. --v.tr. 1 shape like a cone. 2 (foll. by off) Brit. mark off (a road etc.) with cones. Etymology: F c{ocirc}ne f. L conus f. Gk konos
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I. noun Etymology: Middle French or Latin; Middle French, from Latin conus, from Greek kōnos Date: 1545 1. a solid generated by rotating a right triangle about one of its legs, a solid bounded by a circular or other closed plane base and the surface formed by line segments joining every point of the boundary of the base to a common vertex, a surface traced by a moving straight line passing through a fixed vertex, 2. a mass of ovule-bearing or pollen-bearing scales or bracts in most conifers or in cycads that are arranged usually on a somewhat elongated axis, any of several flower or fruit clusters suggesting a ~, something that resembles a ~ in shape: as, any of the conical photosensitive receptor cells of the vertebrate retina that function in color vision, any of a family (Conidae) of tropical marine gastropod mollusks that inject their prey with a potent toxin, the apex of a volcano, a crisp usually ~-shaped wafer for holding ice cream, II. transitive verb (~d; coning) Date: 1845 to make ~-shaped, to bevel like the slanting surface of a ~ ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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