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# cone

«cone» in Mova's school dictionary: **a 3D shape with a round flat base that narrows to a point…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a cone, cones)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A cone is a 3D shape with a round flat base that narrows to a point at the top. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cone/#m1)

2) An ice-cream cone is a crispy cone-shaped holder for ice cream. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cone/#m2)

3) A traffic cone is an orange or red plastic cone used on roads. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cone/#m3)

4) A pine cone is the hard, scaly seed case of a pine or fir tree. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cone/#m4)

5) Cones are also cells in your eyes that see colour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cone/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

In maths a cone has one curved face, one flat circular face, one edge and one vertex (apex). In science pine cones hold seeds; volcanoes are cone-shaped. In road safety cones mark danger or work areas. Phrases: «ice-cream cone», «traffic cone», «pine cone».

### examples

- A cone has one curved face and one circular face. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cone/#x1)
- I'd like a chocolate ice-cream cone, please. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cone/#x2)
- The road workers put out traffic cones. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cone/#x3)
- We collected pine cones in the park. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cone/#x4)
- A volcano is often shaped like a cone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cone/#x5)
- The party hat is a cone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cone/#x6)
- The coach set out cones for football practice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cone/#x7)
- Thus Iktomi lives alone in a cone-shaped wigwam upon the plain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cone/#x8)

### note

Countable. Maths: a cone is not a pyramid (a pyramid has a polygon base and flat triangular faces). Volume of a cone = one third of the volume of a cylinder with the same base and height. Adjective: conical.

### In the corpora

- [A bottlenose dolphin has around 80 to 100 cone-shaped teeth, gets only one set for life, and swallows fish whole.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/27-dolphins-porpoises-and-seals/9/)
- [A cone round a pet's neck after an operation stops it licking its stitches, because licking can open the wound.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/227-the-vet/11/)
- [Cone snails shoot a harpoon-like tooth full of venom into fish, and pain medicines have been made from cone snail venom.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/246-defences-venom-in-snakes-jellyfish-scorpions-and-the-platypus/10/)
- [At a night market in Thailand a child your age buys a paper cone of fried crickets the way you might buy chips.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/290-insects-as-food-in-other-countries/0/)
- [Some trees and seeds need fire to open their cones and grow.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/12-fire-what-it-needs/17/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «cone» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cone/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.