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

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1. List of paraphrases for "cone":

   spr, cono, tapered, conical, funnel, fan

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1. Jessica Kitt:

   We also found that you can overlay the zoomies on top of the cone, and people understand the forecast better, in fact, if they have practice with this, they do a better job of interpreting the NHC cone after this experience than if they did not see the zoomies paired with the cone. So a simple switch for meteorologists might be to show zoomies with the cone.

2. Ryan Hunter-Reay:

   Just to be an innocent bystander like that and get hit in the head with a nose cone is a scary thought, he has a family, just like I do. He's a great friend, a teammate. Can't say enough about the guy on and off the racetrack.

3. Tom Naylor:

   Despite the marathon route being measured correctly in the lead-up to race start, a basic human error in laying out a cone line meant that the final marathon course overran by 568m on the day, we offer our sincerest apologies for this mistake, which was only spotted once participants were on the course, and when an amendment was not possible.

4. 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.

5. Brian McNoldy:

   The cone is just a shape defined by track forecast errors over the previous five years, such that there's historically a two-thirds chance the track of the center of the storm will remain inside the cone, and a one-third chance it will be outside the cone, the same cone is used all year long, for every forecast of every storm... they're identical.