The difference between Cone and Ice cream cone

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 ice cream cone means a thin, conical confection baked from crepe batter, sealed at its apex, used to hold ice cream while it is being eaten.


Cone is also verb with the meaning: to fashion into the shape of a cone.

check bellow for the other definitions of Cone and Ice cream cone

  1. 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.

  2. Cone as a noun (geometry):

    A solid of revolution formed by rotating a triangle around one of its altitudes.

  3. 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.

  4. Cone as a noun:

    Anything shaped like a cone.

  5. Cone as a noun:

    The fruit of a conifer.

  6. Cone as a noun:

    An ice cream cone.

  7. Cone as a noun:

    A traffic cone

  8. 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.

  9. Cone as a noun:

    Any of the small cone-shaped structures in the retina.

  10. Cone as a noun (slang):

    The bowl piece on a bong.

  11. Cone as a noun (slang):

    The process of smoking cannabis in a bong.

  12. Cone as a noun (slang):

    A cone-shaped cannabis joint.

  13. 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)

  14. 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.)

  15. Cone as a noun:

    A shell of the genus Conus, having a conical form.

  16. 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.

  1. Cone as a verb (pottery):

    To fashion into the shape of a cone.

  2. Cone as a verb (frequently followed by "off"):

    To segregate or delineate an area using traffic cones

  1. Ice cream cone as a noun:

    A thin, conical confection baked from crepe batter, sealed at its apex, used to hold ice cream while it is being eaten.

  2. Ice cream cone as a noun:

    Any sweet, edible cone or half-open cylinder which can be used in this fashion; often made with wafer or waffle techniques.

  3. Ice cream cone as a noun:

    An ice cream cone filled with ice cream.