Cornet vs. Cone

Cornetnoun

A musical instrument of the brass family, slightly smaller than a trumpet, usually in the musical key of B-flat.

Cornetnoun

A piece of paper twisted to be used as a container.

Cornetnoun

A pastry shell to be filled with ice-cream, hence an ice cream cone.

Cornetnoun

(obsolete) A troop of cavalry; so called from its being accompanied by a cornet player.

Cornetnoun

A kind of organ stop.

Cornetnoun

The white headdress worn by the Sisters of Charity.

Cornetnoun

(obsolete) The standard flown by a cavalry troop.

Cornetnoun

(historical) The fifth commissioned officer in a cavalry troop, who carried the colours (equivalent to the ensign in infantry).

Cornetnoun

An obsolete rude reed instrument (Ger. Zinken), of the oboe family.

Cornetnoun

A cap of paper twisted at the end, used by retailers to inclose small wares.

Cornetnoun

A troop of cavalry; - so called from its being accompanied by a cornet player.

Cornetnoun

A headdress

Cornetnoun

See Coronet, 2.

Cornetnoun

a brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves

Cornetnoun

a brass instrument resembling a trumpet but shorter and wider.

Cornetnoun

a compound organ stop with a powerful treble sound.

Cornetnoun

a cone-shaped wafer filled with ice cream.

Cornetnoun

the fifth grade of commissioned officer in a cavalry troop, who carried the colours. It is still used in some British cavalry regiments for officers of the rank of second lieutenant.

Cornet

The cornet (, US: ) is a brass instrument similar to the trumpet but distinguished from it by its conical bore, more compact shape, and mellower tone quality. The most common cornet is a transposing instrument in B♭, though there is also a soprano cornet in E♭ and cornets in A and C. All are unrelated to the Renaissance and early Baroque cornett.

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.