nose cone

Questions about nose cone

What is another word for nose cone?

It depends which nose cone you mean. In the sense “front consisting of the conical head of a missile or rocket that protects the payload from heat during its passage through the atmosphere”, the synonyms are ogive. Across all 1 sense there are 1 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of nose cone?

WordNet records no antonym for nose cone. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for nose cone come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of nose cone

• Full entry for nose coneAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for nose coneWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.