cone

1. 1.

   make cone-shaped

   “cone a tire”

   Broaderbevel

Other forms of cone

plural

cones·

past tense

coned·

present participle

coning·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cone

What does cone mean?

cone means "any cone-shaped artifact". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cone?

cone has 1 syllable: cone. In IPA it is /ˈkoʊn/.

What is another word for cone?

Close synonyms include conoid, cone shape, strobilus, strobile, cone cell. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cone a common word?

cone is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with cone?

2 words rhyme with cone. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.