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单词 coning
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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024
cone /koʊn/USA pronunciation   n. [countable]
  1. Mathematicsa solid in which the bottom or base is a circle and the sides are smooth, curved lines narrowing to a point at the top.
  2. anything shaped like a cone: the cone of a volcano.
  3. Botanythe seed-bearing structure of certain trees, such as the pine.

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
cone  (kōn),USA pronunciation n., v., coned, con•ing. 
n. 
  1. Mathematics[Geom.]
    • a solid whose surface is generated by a line passing through a fixed point and a fixed plane curve not containing the point, consisting of two equal sections joined at a vertex.
    • a plane surface resembling the cross section of a solid cone.
  2. anything shaped like a cone:sawdust piled up in a great cone; the cone of a volcano.
  3. See ice-cream cone. 
  4. [Bot.]
    • Botanythe more or less conical multiple fruit of the pine, fir, etc., consisting of overlapping or valvate scales bearing naked ovules or seeds;
      a strobile.
    • Botanya similar fruit, as in cycads or club mosses.
  5. Anatomyone of the cone-shaped cells in the retina of the eye, sensitive to color and intensity of light. Cf. rod (def. 17).
  6. Transportone of a series of cone-shaped markers placed along a road, as around an area of highway construction, esp. to exclude or divert motor vehicles.
  7. Mechanical Engineering(in a taper thread screw or bevel gear) an imaginary cone or frustum of a cone concentric to the axis and defining the pitch surface or one of the extremities of the threads or teeth.
  8. CeramicsSee pyrometric cone. 

v.t. 
  1. to shape like a cone or a segment of a cone.
  • Greek kônos pine-cone, cone-shaped figure; akin to hone1
  • Latin cōnus
  • 1480–90

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
cone /kəʊn/ n
  1. 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: 13πr²h, where r is the radius of the base and h is the height of the cone
  2. anything that tapers from a circular section to a point, such as a wafer shell used to contain ice cream
  3. the reproductive body of conifers and related plants, made up of overlapping scales, esp the mature female cone, whose scales each bear a seed
  4. a similar structure in horsetails, club mosses, etc
  5. a small cone-shaped bollard used as a temporary traffic marker on roads

  6. Also called: retinal cone any one of the cone-shaped cells in the retina of the eye, sensitive to colour and bright light
vb
  1. (transitive) to shape like a cone or part of a cone
Etymology: 16th Century: from Latin cōnus, from Greek kōnus pine cone, geometrical cone
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