名詞 cone:

1. any cone-shaped artifact
2. a shape whose base is a circle and whose sides taper up to a point
   同義詞：conoid, cone shape
3. cone-shaped mass of ovule- or spore-bearing scales or bracts
   同義詞：strobilus, strobile
4. visual receptor cell sensitive to color
   同義詞：cone cell, retinal cone

動(dòng)詞 cone:

1. make cone-shaped

1. An ice cream cone in the afternoon tided Mary over until supper.
   瑪麗下午吃的一個(gè)蛋筒冰淇淋幫她維持到了晚餐時(shí)分。
2. A large crater formed by volcanic explosion or by collapse of a volcanic cone.
   火山口火山爆發(fā)而形成的環(huán)形山或大山核心部分的崩塌而形成的環(huán)形山
3. A piece of paper twisted into a cone and used to hold small wares such as candy or nuts.
   圓錐形紙袋用紙卷成的錐形袋子，用來裝象糖塊或堅(jiān)果等商品
4. Many children rather ate ice cream from cones than from dishes.
   許多孩子寧愿吃蛋卷冰淇淋，而不吃放到盤子上的冰淇淋。

cone

n.（名詞）
Mathematics
【數(shù)學(xué)】
The surface generated by a straight line, the generator, passing through a fixed point, the vertex, and moving along a fixed curve, the directrix.
錐面：由一條直線，即母線，通過一固定點(diǎn)，即頂點(diǎn)，沿一給定曲線，即準(zhǔn)線，連續(xù)移動(dòng)而產(chǎn)生的平面
A right circular cone.
直立圓錐

The figure formed by a cone, bound or regarded as bound by its vertex and a plane section taken anywhere above or below the vertex.
圓錐體：由或被認(rèn)為是由其頂點(diǎn)確定的錐體和取自頂點(diǎn)以上或以下的橫切平面組成的幾何體
Something having the shape of this figure:
具有錐形的物體：
例句：
.the cone of illuminated drops spilling beneath a street lamp.(Anne Tyler)
.街燈下形成一個(gè)錐形的光亮區(qū).(安妮·泰勒)

Botany
【植物學(xué)】
A unisexual reproductive structure of gymnospermous plants such as conifers and cycads, typically consisting of a central axis around which there are scaly, overlapping, spirally arranged sporophylls that develop pollen-bearing sacs or naked ovules or seeds.
球果：單性裸子植物的生殖器，例如針葉樹和鐵樹目植物，一般由覆滿鱗片和褶皺的中心軸構(gòu)成，長螺旋狀排列的孢子葉，孢子葉最終成為花粉囊或裸露的孢子或種子
A similar structure that produces spores on club mosses, horsetails, and spike mosses.
球果結(jié)構(gòu)：在石松、木賊和穗狀苔蘚植物上產(chǎn)生孢子的類似的結(jié)構(gòu)
Any reproductive structure resembling a cone, such as a cluster of hop or alder fruits.
錐體再生結(jié)構(gòu)：其它類似于錐體的再生結(jié)構(gòu)，如蛇麻草或赤揚(yáng)果實(shí)
Physiology One of the photoreceptors in the retina of the eye that is responsible for daylight and color vision. These photoreceptors are most densely concentrated in the fovea centralis, creating the area of greatest visual acuity.
【生理學(xué)】 視錐細(xì)胞：一種在視網(wǎng)膜上感受光線和色彩的感光細(xì)胞。這些感光細(xì)胞主要集中于視網(wǎng)膜的中央凹進(jìn)處，使得這一部分對光線最敏感
Any of various gastropod mollusks of the family Conidae of tropical and subtropical seas, having a conical, often vividly marked shell and the ability to inflict a poisonous, sometimes fatal sting.
芋螺科動(dòng)物：任一種熱帶和亞熱帶海洋芋螺科動(dòng)物中的腹足類軟體動(dòng)物，具有錐形的，色彩艷麗的外殼且長有劇毒甚至能致命的尖刺
v.tr.（及物動(dòng)詞）
coned,con.ing,cones
To shape (something) like a cone or a segment of one.
使成錐體：使（某物）成錐狀或成為錐體的一部分

來源：
French cône
法語 cône
Middle English [angle of a quadrant]
中古英語 [象限角]
both from Latin cônus
都源自 拉丁語 cônus
from Greek kônos * see kô-
源自 希臘語 kônos *參見 kô-