different between cone vs bearing

English

Etymology

From Middle French cone, from Latin conus (“cone, wedge, peak”), from Ancient Greek ????? (kônos, “cone, spinning top, pine cone”)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k??n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ko?n/
• Rhymes: -??n

Noun

cone (plural cones)

1. (geometry) A surface of revolution formed by rotating a segment of a line around another line that intersects the first line.
2. (geometry) A solid of revolution formed by rotating a triangle around one of its altitudes.
3. (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.
4. Anything shaped like a cone.
6. The fruit of a conifer.
7. A cone-shaped flower head of various plants, such as banksias and proteas.
8. An ice cream cone.
9. A traffic cone
10. 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.
11. (anatomy) Any of the small cone-shaped structures in the retina.
12. (slang) The bowl piece on a bong.
13. (slang) The process of smoking cannabis in a bong.
14. (slang) A cone-shaped cannabis joint.
15. (slang) A passenger on a cruise ship (so-called by employees after traffic cones, from the need to navigate around them)
16. (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.)

    Hyponym: limit

17. A shell of the genus Conus, having a conical form.
18. 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.

Synonyms

• (geometry): conical surface
• (ice cream cone): cornet, ice cream cone

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See also

• quean
• queen

Verb

cone (third-person singular simple present cones, present participle coning, simple past and past participle coned)

1. (transitive) To fashion into the shape of a cone.
2. (intransitive) To form a cone shape.
   • 1971, United States. Congress. House Appropriations, Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1972 (part 3, page 69)

     Under the old method the material coned at the bottom of the borehole and as a result it would not go under houses and buildings.

3. (frequently followed by "off") To segregate or delineate an area using traffic cones

References

Anagrams

• Coen, Econ., Noce, ceno-, coen-, cœn-, econ, econ., once

Bourguignon

Etymology

From Latin cornua.

Noun

cone f (plural cones)

1. horn

Latin

Noun

c?ne

1. vocative singular of c?nus

References

• cone in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Portuguese

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)1560s, from Middle French cone (16c.) or directly from Latin conus "a cone, peak of a helmet," from Greek konos "cone, spinning top, pine cone," perhaps from PIE root *ko- "to sharpen" (cognates: Sanskrit sanah "whetstone," Latin catus "sharp," Old English han "stone").

Noun

cone m (plural cones)

1. (geometry, etc.) cone (conical shape)

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?b??????/
• (US) enPR: bâr'?ng IPA^(key): /?b????/
• Rhymes: -?????

Etymology 1

From Middle English beringe, berynge, berende, berande, berand, from Old English berende (“bearing; fruitful”) (also as synonym Old English b?rende), from Proto-Germanic *berandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *beran? (“to bear; carry”), equivalent to bear +? -ing.

Verb

bearing

1. present participle of bear

Adjective

bearing (not comparable)

1. (in combination) That bears (some specified thing).

   a gift-bearing visitor

2. Of a beam, column, or other device, carrying weight or load.

   That's a bearing wall.

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Etymology 2

From Middle English bering, beringe, berynge, equivalent to bear +? -ing.

Noun

bearing (plural bearings)

1. A mechanical device that supports another part and/or reduces friction.
2. (navigation, nautical) The horizontal angle between the direction of an object and another object, or between it and that of true north; a heading or direction.
3. (in the plural, especially in phrases such as 'get one's bearings') One's understanding of one's orientation or relative position, literally or figuratively.

   Do we go left here or straight on? Hold on, let me just get my bearings.

   I started a new job last week, and I still haven't quite found my bearings.

4. Relevance; a relationship or connection.

   That has no bearing on this issue.
5. One's posture, demeanor, or manner.

   She walks with a confident, self-assured bearing.
6. (architecture) That part of any member of a building which rests upon its supports.

   A lintel or beam may have four inches of bearing upon the wall.

7. (architecture) The portion of a support on which anything rests.
8. (architecture, proscribed) The unsupported span.

   The beam has twenty feet of bearing between its supports.

9. (heraldry) Any single emblem or charge in an escutcheon or coat of arms.
   • 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Notes of a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo

     Jos Sedley's open carriage, with its magnificent armorial bearings.

Hyponyms

Related terms

• find one’s bearings
• get one’s bearings
• lose one’s bearings

Translations

See also

• ABEC
• bearing on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Binegar, bangier, barge in