The difference between Cone and Cornet
When used as nouns, cone means a surface of revolution formed by rotating a segment of a line around another line that intersects the first line, whereas cornet means a musical instrument of the brass family, slightly smaller than a trumpet, usually in the musical key of b-flat.
Cone is also verb with the meaning: to fashion into the shape of a cone.
check bellow for the other definitions of Cone and Cornet
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Cone as a noun (geometry):
A surface of revolution formed by rotating a segment of a line around another line that intersects the first line.
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Cone as a noun (geometry):
A solid of revolution formed by rotating a triangle around one of its altitudes.
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Cone as a noun (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.
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Cone as a noun:
Anything shaped like a cone.
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Cone as a noun:
The fruit of a conifer.
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Cone as a noun:
An ice cream cone.
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Cone as a noun:
A traffic cone
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Cone as a noun:
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.
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Cone as a noun:
Any of the small cone-shaped structures in the retina.
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Cone as a noun (slang):
The bowl piece on a bong.
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Cone as a noun (slang):
The process of smoking cannabis in a bong.
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Cone as a noun (slang):
A cone-shaped cannabis joint.
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Cone as a noun (slang):
A passenger on a cruise ship (so-called by employees after traffic cones, from the need to navigate around them)
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Cone as a noun (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.)
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Cone as a noun:
A shell of the genus Conus, having a conical form.
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Cone as a noun:
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.
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Cone as a verb (pottery):
To fashion into the shape of a cone.
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Cone as a verb (frequently followed by "off"):
To segregate or delineate an area using traffic cones
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Cornet as a noun:
A musical instrument of the brass family, slightly smaller than a trumpet, usually in the musical key of B-flat.
Examples:
"synonyms cornet-à-piston cornet-à-pistons"
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Cornet as a noun:
A piece of paper twisted to be used as a container.
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Cornet as a noun (UK, dated):
A pastry shell to be filled with ice-cream, hence an ice cream cone.
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Cornet as a noun (obsolete):
A troop of cavalry; so called from its being accompanied by a cornet player.
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Cornet as a noun:
A kind of organ stop.
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Cornet as a noun:
The white headdress worn by the .
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Cornet as a noun (obsolete):
The standard flown by a cavalry troop.
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Cornet as a noun (historical):
The fifth commissioned officer in a cavalry troop, who carried the colours (equivalent to the in infantry).