Cove vs Cone - What's the difference?
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(architecture) A concave vault or archway, especially the arch of a ceiling.
A small coastal inlet, especially one having high cliffs protecting vessels from prevailing winds.
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(US) A strip of prairie extending into woodland.
A recess or sheltered area on the slopes of a mountain.
(nautical) The wooden roof of the stern gallery of an old sailing warship.
(nautical) A thin line, sometimes gilded, along a yacht's strake below deck level.
(architecture) To arch over; to build in a hollow concave form; to make in the form of a cove.
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To brood, cover, over, or sit over, as birds their eggs.
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(label) A surface of revolution formed by rotating a segment of a line around another line that intersects the first line.
(label) A solid of revolution formed by rotating a triangle around one of its altitudes.
(label) 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.
Anything shaped like a cone.The Illustrated Oxford Dictionary , Oxford University Press, 1998
The fruit of a conifer.
An ice cream cone.
A traffic cone
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.
Any of the small cone-shaped structures in the retina.
(label) The bowl piece on a bong.
(label) The process of smoking cannabis in a bong.
(label) A cone-shaped cannabis joint.
(label) A passenger on a cruise ship (so-called by employees after traffic cones, from the need to navigate around them)
(label) Given a diagram F'' : ''J'' → ''C'', a ''cone'' consists of an object ''N'' of ''C'', together with a family of morphisms ψ''X'' : ''N'' → ''F''(''X'') indexed by all of the objects of ''J'', such that for every morphism ''f'' : ''X'' → ''Y'' in ''J'', . Then ''N'' is the ''vertex'' of the ''cone'', whose ''sides'' are all the ψ''X'' indexed by Ob(''J'') and whose ''base'' is ''F''. The ''cone'' is said to be "from ''N'' to ''F''" and can be denoted as (''N , ψ).
A shell of the genus Conus , having a conical form.
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.
(label) To fashion into the shape of a .
(label) To segregate or delineate an area using traffic cones
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As nouns the difference between cove and cone
is that cove is a hollow in a rock; a cave or cavern while cone is a surface of revolution formed by rotating a segment of a line around another line that intersects the first line.As verbs the difference between cove and cone
is that cove is to arch over; to build in a hollow concave form; to make in the form of a cove while cone is to fashion into the shape of a cone.As a proper noun Cove
is a town in Arkansas.cove
English
(wikipedia cove)Etymology 1
From (etyl) cofa, from (etyl) . Cognate with German Koben, Swedish kofva. This word has probably survived as long as it has due to its coincidental phonetic resemblence to the unrelated word "cave".Noun
(en noun)- vessels which were in readiness for him within secret coves and nooks
Verb
(cov)- The mosques and other buildings of the Arabians are rounded into domes and coved roofs.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) . Perhaps change in consonants due to lower classth-fronting.
Derived terms
* Abram cove * badge-cove * bang up coveEtymology 3
Compare (etyl) couver, (etyl) covare. See covey.Verb
(cov)- Not being able to cove or sit upon them [eggs], she [the female tortoise] bestoweth them in the gravel.
cone
English
(wikipedia cone)Noun
(en noun)- «Let J'' be an index category which has an initial object ''I''. Let ''F'' be a diagram of type ''J'' in ''C''. Then category ''C'' contains a cone from ''F''(''I'') to ''F .»
- «If category C'' has a cone from ''N'' to ''F'' and a morphism from ''M'' to ''N'', then category ''C'' also has a cone from ''M'' to ''F .»