Cone

[kəʊn] or [kon]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) any cone-shaped artifact.

(noun.) a visual receptor cell in the retina that is sensitive to bright light and to color.

(noun.) cone-shaped mass of ovule- or spore-bearing scales or bracts.

(noun.) a shape whose base is a circle and whose sides taper up to a point.

(verb.) make cone-shaped; 'cone a tire'.

錄入:玛丽埃塔--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(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.

校對:琳达

解釋/意思:

n. a solid pointed figure with a circular base: fruit shaped like a cone as that of the pine fir &c.: anything shaped like a cone.—ns. Cone′-shell a family of Gasteropod molluscs with substantial conical shells; Cone′-wheat a variety of wheat with conical-shaped spike.—adjs. Conic -al having the form of or pertaining to a cone.—adv. Con′ically.—ns. Con′icalness Conic′ity.—adj. Con′ico-cylin′drical.—n. Con′ics that part of geometry which deals with the cone and its sections.—adj. Cō′niform in the form of a cone.—Conic section a figure made by the section of a cone by a plane.

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