Word Meaning

cones definition and meaning

n. 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.
n. 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.
n. 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.
n. A shell of the genus Conus, having a conical form.
v. t. To render cone-shaped; to bevel like the circular segment of a cone; as, to cone the tires of car wheels.

Crossword clues for cones

- Cornet
- Eye part
- Fir’s seed container
- Ice cream holder
- Ice-cream holder
- Ice-cream holder found outside Cologne
- One hundred to one, it has ice cream in it
- Plastic road marker
- Roadworks marker
- Solid object which comes to a point
- Temporary traffic marker
- Traffic marker
- volcanic hill
- volcano hill
- Deacon escaped, taking some ice cream cornets
- Icecream holders
- Pine fruits
- Traffic markers