cone shape
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- noun
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forma cónica
- The artist skillfully arranged the flowers in a cone shape to enhance the garden's beauty.
Examples
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He made a cone shape, moved his fingers up and down, and then drew a ragged edge.
Fiction book (1998) -
The X-rays leave here and they go across the machine in a cone shape, so we get the highest detail very close to the emitter right here.
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Spacers are made by bending cardboard into an ice cream cone shape.
Academic text (2010) -
We can visualize this by observing that the normal vector to the disk rotates in a cone shape about the Z axis.
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You can create a cone shape by rolling a piece of paper into a pointed end at the top.
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When making ice cream, it's fun to see how the waffle cone shape has a perfect pointed form.
Synonyms
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A solid shape with a circular base that narrows to a point
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A cone-like shape that is wide at one end and narrow at the other
A solid shape with a circular base that gets narrower to a point
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Morphology
The meaning is directly and compositionally derived from 'cone' (a form narrowing to a point) and 'shape' (the form or outline of something); together they describe the form of an object. This simple noun+noun descriptive compound follows regular English composition and is cross-linguistically transparent, so a B1 learner who knows both words will understand it.
Etymology
The noun cone shape comes from everyday objects like an ice-cream cone and a pine cone, which have a round base that gets narrower up to a point. So when we say cone shape, we mean 'a form with a circular base that gets narrower to a point', and that simple image helps you remember the meaning.