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

Definitions

1. noun. 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.
2. noun. 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.
3. noun. 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.
4. noun. A shell of the genus Conus, having a conical form.
5. transitive verb. To render cone-shaped; to bevel like the circular segment of a cone; as, to cone the tires of car wheels.
6. noun. any cone-shaped artifact
7. noun. a visual receptor cell in the retina that is sensitive to bright light and to color
8. noun. cone-shaped mass of ovule- or spore-bearing scales or bracts

   Synonyms: strobile, strobilus

9. noun. a shape whose base is a circle and whose sides taper up to a point

   Synonyms: conoid

10. verb. make cone-shaped

    "cone a tire"

Synonyms

strobile, strobilus, conoid

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in cone:

econ, once

Common word forms

coned, coner, cones, coneen, coning

Words from these letters

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