cone
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 →
2) An ice-cream cone is a crispy cone-shaped holder for ice cream. tree →
3) A traffic cone is an orange or red plastic cone used on roads. tree →
4) A pine cone is the hard, scaly seed case of a pine or fir tree. tree →
5) Cones are also cells in your eyes that see colour. tree →
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 →
- I'd like a chocolate ice-cream cone, please. tree →
- The road workers put out traffic cones. tree →
- We collected pine cones in the park. tree →
- A volcano is often shaped like a cone. tree →
- The party hat is a cone. tree →
- The coach set out cones for football practice. tree →
- Thus Iktomi lives alone in a cone-shaped wigwam upon the plain. tree →
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.
- A cone round a pet's neck after an operation stops it licking its stitches, because licking can open the wound.
- Cone snails shoot a harpoon-like tooth full of venom into fish, and pain medicines have been made from cone snail venom.
- At a night market in Thailand a child your age buys a paper cone of fried crickets the way you might buy chips.
- Some trees and seeds need fire to open their cones and grow.
Trees and pragmatics
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