conical

Examples

• All

• The performance took place in a small yurt, a conical tent supported by latticework.

  Academic text (1993)

• All right, we now have a conical loaf of bread.

• In some cases, the facial covering and a conical hat are one unit.

  Academic text (1999)

• I built this giant conical hopper out of clear plastic and welded steel.

  Adam Savage’s Tested

• The rib cage is kind of conical in shape and a large pelvis.

• A pale mask is worn with a tall conical hat topped with a pennant.

  Academic text (1999)

• The figure in the middle wears a conical headdress and a beaded top reserved for the queen mother.

  Academic text (2005)

• The first homecoming place was on a high plateau, overshadowed by a conical mountain.

  Fiction book (2002)

• The Shree Pragat Mandal-Krishna Mandir in Sparkbrook, Birmingham, with its conical tower, is unmistakably Hindu architecture.

  Academic text (2003)

• The ice cream was served in a conical cone, making it easy to hold and eat.

Synonyms

C

cone-shaped

vsconical

4 2.8

Shaped like a cone

is a single word adjective with identical sense

C

conic

vsconical

1 7.2

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

is the regular longer adjective with the same meaning

C

conelike

vsconical

4.9

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

is the standard adjective form rather than a like construction

Compounds

C

conical buoy

7.1

A floating cone that helps boats know where to go

C

conical projection

• Specialized

8.9

A way to make a flat map by copying Earth onto a cone over part of the globe

How Conical

conical

5 4.8

pointed

1 1.8

tapered

1 4.5

rounded

1 2.4

flat

797 1.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology