1. cone - Noun
2. cone - Verb
3. Cone - Proper noun
A solid of the form described by the revolution of a right-angled triangle about one of the sides adjacent to the right angle; -- called also a right cone. More generally, any solid having a vertical point and bounded by a surface which is described by a straight line always passing through that vertical point; a solid having a circle for its base and tapering to a point or vertex.
Anything shaped more or less like a mathematical cone; as, a volcanic cone, a collection of scoriae around the crater of a volcano, usually heaped up in a conical form.
The fruit or strobile of the Coniferae, as of the pine, fir, cedar, and cypress. It is composed of woody scales, each one of which has one or two seeds at its base.
To render cone-shaped; to bevel like the circular segment of a cone; as, to cone the tires of car wheels.
Source: Webster's dictionaryA country governed by a despot is an inverted cone. Samuel Johnson
I assure you, my friends, I am cone sold stober. Diana Wynne Jones
If you have a statue in the city centre you could go past it every day on your way to school and never even notice it, right. But as soon as someone puts a traffic cone on its head, you've made your own sculpture. Banksy
They could not love anymore, they thought, just drink and pour coffee and track people down in the rain. They were living frigidly, as if in a cone of frost. Daniel Handler
I am the Eschaton. I am not your God. I am descended from you, and exist in your future. Thou shalt not violate causality within my historic light cone. Or else. Charles Stross
Pissed off like a little squirrel with a frozen pine cone. Finnish Proverb