different between quoin vs cone

English

Etymology

Variant of coin; compare coign.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??n/
• Homophones: coin, coign
• Rhymes: -??n

Noun

quoin (plural quoins)

1. Any of the corner building blocks of a building, usually larger or more ornate than the surrounding blocks.
   • 1901, Thomas Hardy, A Man (In Memory Of H. Of M.)

     In Casterbridge there stood a noble pile, […]
     But evil days beset that domicile;
     The stately beauties of its roof and wall
     Passed into sordid hands. Condemned to fall
     Were cornice, quoin, and cove,
     And all that art had wove in antique style.

2. The keystone of an arch.
3. (printing, historical) A metal wedge which fits into the space between the type and the edge of a chase, and is tightened to fix the metal type in place.
   • 1898, John Southward, Modern Printing: A Handbook of the Principles and Practice of Typography and the Auxiliary Arts

     Next fit the quoins, using the “persuader” to squeeze in the pages, and tap up all around.

4. (obsolete, nautical) A form of wedge used to prevent casks from moving
5. (firearms) A wedge of wood or iron put under the breech of heavy guns or the muzzle of siege-mortars to raise them to the proper level.
6. (horticulture) A number of apple varieties with a distinctive ribbed appearance, like corners of a coin.

Synonyms

• (corner block of a building): cornerstone

Derived terms

• quinie

Verb

quoin (third-person singular simple present quoins, present participle quoining, simple past and past participle quoined)

1. (transitive) To wedge or steady with quoins.

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

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

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)