wind cone

Questions about wind cone

What is another word for wind cone?

It depends which wind cone you mean. In the sense “a truncated cloth cone mounted on a mast; used (e.g., at airports) to show the direction of the wind”, the synonyms are windsock, wind sock, sock, air sock, air-sleeve, wind sleeve, drogue. Across all 1 sense there are 7 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 wind cone?

WordNet records no antonym for wind 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 wind 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 wind cone

• Full entry for wind coneAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for wind 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.