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coned

coned

1 4.4
Shaped like an ice cream cone, wide at one end and narrow at the other
  • adjective
translation icon : cónico
  • I'd also point out that the gun here isn't actually the OQF 6 pounder but the QF 75mm with its distinctive coned muzzle brake, although I know that the Mk. IV did receive that gun later on.

Examples

  • The traffic cones were all coned in a neat row along the road.

  • He watched its coned dispersal into the air.

    Fiction book (1993)

  • This is a cone heel, just the shape.

  • That is because the top of the cone is curved.

  • Lana got coned!

    The Princess Diaries (2001)

  • Lana got coned!

    The Princess Diaries (2001)

  • Lana got coned!

    The Princess Diaries (2001)

  • They would be more cone shaped, but they're just, they're huge.

  • The ice cream was served in a coned dish that pointed upward.

  • The mountain's peak had a distinctively coned shape, making it easy to identify.

Synonyms

conical
vsconed
5 4.8

A thing shaped like a party hat with a round base and a point

is a neutral term describing the same wide-to-narrow shape
cone-shaped
vsconed
4 2.8

Shaped like a cone

is the single-word adjective used more in formal or technical contexts
conic
vsconed
1 7.2

Having the shape of a cone, with a point and a round base

is the everyday descriptive term rather than a technical label
conelike
vsconed
4.9

Shaped like a cone, wide at one end and narrow at the other

is more direct, stating the actual tapering form rather than resemblance

How Conical

coned
1 4.4
tapered
1 4.5
rounded
1 2.4

Surface Forms

coned positive

Morphology

coned = cone (transparent) = cone + ed

Direct adjectival formation from the noun 'cone' with the productive suffix '-ed' meaning 'having the shape of'.

Etymology

The word coned comes from the simple noun cone, like an 'ice cream cone' or a traffic cone you see on the road. So coned means 'wide at one end and narrow at the other', a shape like those cones.