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Pine vs Cone - What's the difference?

pine | cone |

As nouns the difference between pine and cone

is that pine is any coniferous tree of the genus Pinus 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 pine and cone

is that pine is to languish; to lose flesh or wear away through distress; to droop while cone is to fashion into the shape of a cone.

pine

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Noun

  • (countable, uncountable) Any coniferous tree of the genus Pinus .
  • * , chapter=1
  • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
  • , title=(The China Governess), chapter=3 citation , passage=Sepia Delft tiles surrounded the fireplace, their crudely drawn Biblical scenes in faded cyclamen blending with the pinkish pine , while above them, instead of a mantelshelf, there was an archway high enough to form a balcony with slender balusters and a tapestry-hung wall behind.}}
  • (countable) Any tree (usually coniferous) which resembles a member of this genus in some respect.
  • (uncountable) The wood of this tree.
  • (archaic) A pineapple.
  • Synonyms
    * (tree of genus Pinus) pine tree * (wood) pinewood
    Derived terms
    * bunya pine * hoop pine * Huon pine * jack pine * Norfolk Island pine * pineal * pineapple * * * pinecone, pine cone * * pine needle * pine nut * * * pine tar * pine tree * * stone pine * white pine * Wollemi pine * yellow pine

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) . Cognate to (m). Entered Germanic with Christianity; cognate to (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) A painful longing.
  • Verb

    (pin)
  • To languish; to lose flesh or wear away through distress; to droop.
  • * Tickell
  • The roses wither and the lilies pine .
  • To long, to yearn so much that it causes suffering.
  • Laura was pining for Bill all the time he was gone.
  • * 1855 , John Sullivan Dwight (translator), “Oh Holy Night”, as printed in 1871, Adolphe-Charles Adam (music), “Cantique de Noël”, G. Schirmer (New York), originally by Placide Cappeau de Roquemaure, 1847
  • Long lay the world in sin and error pining / Till He appear’d and the soul felt its worth
  • * {{quote-book, year=1994
  • , author=(Walter Dean Myers) , title=The Glory Field , chapter= , pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=_ePdzF_m3V4C&q=%22pined%22 citation , isbn=978054505575 , page=29 , passage=The way the story went was that the man's foot healed up all right but that he just pined away.}}
  • To grieve or mourn for.
  • (Milton)
  • To inflict pain upon; to torment; to torture; to afflict.
  • * Bishop Hall
  • One is pined in prison, another tortured on the rack.

    References

    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}}

    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

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