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Cone vs Hone - What's the difference?

cone | hone |

As nouns the difference between cone and hone

is that cone is cone while hone is a sharpening stone composed of extra-fine grit used for removing the burr or curl from the blade of a razor or some other edge tool or hone can be a kind of swelling in the cheek.

As a verb hone is

to sharpen with a hone .

cone

English

(wikipedia cone)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (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'', F(f) \circ \psi_X = \psi_Y . 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).
    • «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 .»
  • 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.

    • Synonyms

    * (geometry) conical surface * (ice cream cone) cornet, ice cream cone

    Derived terms

    {{der3, coneflower , conepiece , conic , conic section , ice cream cone , nose cone , traffic cone}}

    Related terms

    {{rel3, coign , coin , quoin , cuneiform}}

    See also

    * quean * queen

    Verb

  • (label) To fashion into the shape of a .
  • (label) To segregate or delineate an area using traffic cones
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    • References

    Anagrams

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    hone

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) ).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sharpening stone composed of extra-fine grit used for removing the burr or curl from the blade of a razor or some other edge tool.
  • A machine tool used in the manufacture of precision bores.
    • Derived terms
    * hone slate * hone stone

    Verb

  • To sharpen with a hone .
  • To use a hone to produce a precision bore.
  • To refine or master (a skill).
  • To make more acute, intense, or effective.
  • To pine; to lament; to long.
    • (Lamb)

    See also

    * grit * sandpaper * steel * strop * swarf

    Etymology 2

    Compare Icelandic word for "a knob".

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A kind of swelling in the cheek.
    • Derived terms
    * honewort ----