Cone vs. Core

Conenoun

(geometry) A surface of revolution formed by rotating a segment of a line around another line that intersects the first line.

Conenoun

(geometry) A solid of revolution formed by rotating a triangle around one of its altitudes.

Conenoun

(topology) A space formed by taking the direct product of a given space with a closed interval and identifying all of one end to a point.

Conenoun

Anything shaped like a cone.

Conenoun

The fruit of a conifer.

Conenoun

An ice cream cone.

Conenoun

A traffic cone

Conenoun

A unit of volume, applied solely to marijuana and only while it is in a smokable state; roughly 1.5 cubic centimetres, depending on use.

Conenoun

Any of the small cone-shaped structures in the retina.

Conenoun

(slang) The bowl piece on a bong.

Conenoun

(slang) The process of smoking cannabis in a bong.

Conenoun

(slang) A cone-shaped cannabis joint.

Conenoun

(slang) A passenger on a cruise ship (so-called by employees after traffic cones, from the need to navigate around them)

Conenoun

(category theory) An object V together with an arrow going from V to each object of a diagram such that for any arrow A in the diagram, the pair of arrows from V which subtend A also commute with it. (Then V can be said to be the cone’s vertex and the diagram which the cone subtends can be said to be its base.)

Conenoun

A shell of the genus Conus, having a conical form.

Conenoun

A set of formal languages with certain desirable closure properties, in particular those of the regular languages, the context-free languages and the recursively enumerable languages.

Coneverb

(pottery) To fashion into the shape of a cone.

Coneverb

(frequently followed by "off") To segregate or delineate an area using traffic cones

Conenoun

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.

Conenoun

Anything shaped more or less like a mathematical cone; as, a volcanic cone, a collection of scoriæ around the crater of a volcano, usually heaped up in a conical form.

Conenoun

The fruit or strobile of the Coniferæ, 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.

Conenoun

A shell of the genus Conus, having a conical form.

Coneverb

To render cone-shaped; to bevfl like whe circwlar segoent of a cone; as, to cone the tires of car wheels.

Conenoun

any cone-shaped artifact

Conenoun

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

Conenoun

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

Conenoun

visual receptor cell sensitive to color

Coneverb

make cone-shaped;

Conenoun

a solid or hollow object which tapers from a circular or roughly circular base to a point

Conenoun

a surface or solid figure generated by the straight lines which pass from a circle or other closed curve to a single point (the vertex) not in the same plane as the curve.

Conenoun

a conical mountain, especially one of volcanic origin

Conenoun

a plastic cone-shaped object that is used to separate off or close sections of a road.

Conenoun

a coned-shaped wafer container in which ice cream is served.

Conenoun

a ceramic pyramid that melts at a known temperature and is used to indicate the temperature of a kiln.

Conenoun

short for cone shell

Conenoun

the dry fruit of a conifer, typically tapering to a rounded end and formed of a tight array of overlapping scales on a central axis which separate to release the seeds

Conenoun

a flower resembling the cone of a conifer, especially that of the hop plant.

Conenoun

one of two types of light-sensitive cell in the retina of the eye, responding mainly to bright light and responsible for sharpness of vision and colour perception.

Coneverb

separate off or mark a road with traffic cones

Cone

A cone is a three-dimensional geometric shape that tapers smoothly from a flat base (frequently, though not necessarily, circular) to a point called the apex or vertex. A cone is formed by a set of line segments, half-lines, or lines connecting a common point, the apex, to all of the points on a base that is in a plane that does not contain the apex.

Corenoun

The central part of fruit, containing the kernels or seeds.

Corenoun

The heart or inner part of a physical thing

Corenoun

The center or inner part of a space or area

Corenoun

The most important part of a thing; the essence.

Corenoun

(engineering) The portion of a mold that creates an internal cavity within a casting or that makes a hole in or through a casting.

Corenoun

The bony process which forms the central axis of the horns in many animals.

Corenoun

(computing) Magnetic data storage.

Corenoun

(computer hardware) An individual computer processor, in the sense when several processors (called cores or CPU cores) are plugged together in one single integrated circuit to work as one (called multi-core processor).

Corenoun

(engineering) The material between surface materials in a structured composite sandwich material.

Corenoun

The inner part of a nuclear reactor in which the nuclear reaction takes place.

Corenoun

A piece of soft iron, inside the windings of an electromagnet, that channels the magnetic field.

Corenoun

A disorder of sheep caused by worms in the liver.

Corenoun

A cylindrical sample of rock or other materials obtained by core drilling.

Corenoun

(medicine) A tiny sample of organic material obtained by means of a fine-needle biopsy.

Corenoun

(biochemistry) The central part of a protein structure consisting in mostly hydrophobic aminoacids.

Corenoun

(game theory) The set of feasible allocations that cannot be improved upon by a subset (a coalition) of the economy's agents.

Corenoun

(printing) A hollow cylindrical piece of cardboard around which a web of paper or plastic is winded.

Corenoun

(obsolete) A body of individuals; an assemblage.

Corenoun

A miner's underground working time or shift.

Corenoun

: a former Hebrew and Phoenician unit of volume.

Corenoun

A deposit paid by the purchaser of a rebuilt part, to be refunded on return of a used, rebuildable part, or the returned rebuildable part itself.

Coreverb

To remove the core of an apple or other fruit.

Coreverb

To extract a sample with a drill.

Corenoun

A body of individuals; an assemblage.

Corenoun

A miner's underground working time or shift.

Corenoun

A Hebrew dry measure; a cor or homer.

Corenoun

The heart or inner part of a thing, as of a column, wall, rope, of a boil, etc.; especially, the central part of fruit, containing the kernels or seeds; as, the core of an apple or quince.

Corenoun

The center or inner part, as of an open space; as, the core of a square.

Corenoun

The most important part of a thing; the essence; as, the core of a subject; - also used attributively, as the core curriculum at a college.

Corenoun

The portion of a mold which shapes the interior of a cylinder, tube, or other hollow casting, or which makes a hole in or through a casting; a part of the mold, made separate from and inserted in it, for shaping some part of the casting, the form of which is not determined by that of the pattern.

Corenoun

A disorder of sheep occasioned by worms in the liver.

Corenoun

The bony process which forms the central axis of the horns in many animals.

Corenoun

A mass of iron or other ferrous metal, forming the central part of an electromagnet, such as those upon which the conductor of an armature, a transformer, or an induction coil is wound.

Corenoun

a sample of earth or rock extracted from underground by a drilling device in such a manner that the layers of rock are preserved in the same order as they exist underground; as, to drill a core; to extract a core. The sample is typically removed with a rotating drill bit having a hollow center, and is thus shaped like a cylinder.

Corenoun

The main working memory of a digital computer system, which typically retains the program code being executed as well as the data structures that are manipulated by the program. Contrasted to ROM and data storage device.

Corenoun

the central part of the earth, believed to be a sphere with a radius of about 2100 miles, and composed primarily of molten iron with some nickel. It is distinguished from the crust and mantle.

Corenoun

the central part of a nuclear reactor, containing the fissionable fuel.

Coreverb

To take out the core or inward parts of; as, to core an apple.

Coreverb

To form by means of a core, as a hole in a casting.

Coreverb

To extract a cylindrical sample from, with a boring device. See core{8}.

Corenoun

the center of an object;

Corenoun

a small group of indispensable persons or things;

Corenoun

the central part of the Earth

Corenoun

the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience;

Corenoun

a cylindrical sample of soil or rock obtained with a hollow drill

Corenoun

an organization founded by James Leonard Farmer in 1942 to work for racial equality

Corenoun

the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work

Corenoun

the chamber of a nuclear reactor containing the fissile material where the reaction takes place

Corenoun

a bar of magnetic material (as soft iron) that passes through a coil and serves to increase the inductance of the coil

Coreverb

remove the core or center from;