Synonyms for cone
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1. conenoun

   Synonyms:
   conical surface

2. conenoun

   An ice cream cone.

   Synonyms:
   cornet, ice cream cone

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. conenoun

   any cone-shaped artifact

   Synonyms:
   strobilus, cone cell, retinal cone, strobile, cone shape, conoid

2. cone, conoid, cone shapenoun

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

   Synonyms:
   strobilus, cone cell, retinal cone, strobile, cone shape, conoid

3. cone, strobilus, strobilenoun

   cone-shaped mass of ovule- or spore-bearing scales or bracts

   Synonyms:
   strobilus, cone cell, retinal cone, strobile, cone shape, conoid

4. cone, cone cell, retinal coneverb

   a visual receptor cell in the retina that is sensitive to bright light and to color

   Synonyms:
   strobilus, cone cell, retinal cone, strobile, cone shape, conoid

5. coneverb

   make cone-shaped

   "cone a tire"

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1. • Artifact
   • Bevel

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "cone":

   spr, cono, tapered, conical, funnel, fan

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1. Brian McNoldy:

   The most common misunderstanding about the cone of uncertainty is the border of it, people see it and think that being inside the cone is bad, and outside the cone is fine. That is most definitely not the intended message.

2. Charles M. Schulz, as "Charlie Brown", Peanuts, cartoon strip:

   Life is like an ice-cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time.

3. Shawn Weeks:

   I have a good time and the farmers get rid of a pest. As you look at the soybean fields, you'll see what we call 'ice cream cones.' The point of the ice cream cone is where the groundhog's burrow is. He'll eat in a semicircle out from his burrow. Groundhogs love eating fresh soybeans coming out of the ground. i'm a hunter but if I don't eat it, I don't shoot it and I don't eat woodchuck.

4. Robert A. Heinlein:

   A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, cone a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly.

5. Latham Boyle:

   You find that it extrapolates, it extends it analytically continues, physicists would say, to this double cone, it just seems to be the natural, simplest extension of the equations that seem to describe the universe as we see it.