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cone
cone is a 4-letter English word with 10 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A solid of the form described by the revolution of a right-angled triangle about one of the sides adjacent to the right angle; -- called also a right cone. More generally, any solid having a vertical point and bounded by a surface which is described by a straight line always passing through that vertical point; a solid having a circle for its base and tapering to a point or vertex. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 8 · 10 senses
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- 1noun
A solid of the form described by the revolution of a right-angled triangle about one of the sides adjacent to the right angle; -- called also a right cone. More generally, any solid having a vertical point and bounded by a surface which is described by a straight line always passing through that vertical point; a solid having a circle for its base and tapering to a point or vertex.
- 2noun
Anything shaped more or less like a mathematical cone; as, a volcanic cone, a collection of scoriae around the crater of a volcano, usually heaped up in a conical form.
- 3noun
The fruit or strobile of the Coniferae, as of the pine, fir, cedar, and cypress. It is composed of woody scales, each one of which has one or two seeds at its base.
- 4noun
A shell of the genus Conus, having a conical form.
- 5transitive verb
To render cone-shaped; to bevel like the circular segment of a cone; as, to cone the tires of car wheels.
- 6noun
any cone-shaped artifact
- 7noun
a visual receptor cell in the retina that is sensitive to bright light and to color
- 8noun
cone-shaped mass of ovule- or spore-bearing scales or bracts
- 9noun
a shape whose base is a circle and whose sides taper up to a point
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- 10verb
make cone-shaped
"cone a tire"
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