Cornet vs. Cone — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Cornet and Cone
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Definitions
Cornet
The cornet (, US: ) is a brass instrument similar to the trumpet but distinguished from it by its conical bore, more compact shape, and mellower tone quality. The most common cornet is a transposing instrument in B♭, though there is also a soprano cornet in E♭ and cornets in A and C. All are unrelated to the Renaissance and early Baroque cornett.
Cone
A cone is a three-dimensional geometric shape that tapers smoothly from a flat base (frequently, though not necessarily, circular) to a point called the apex or vertex. A cone is formed by a set of line segments, half-lines, or lines connecting a common point, the apex, to all of the points on a base that is in a plane that does not contain the apex.
Cornet
A brass instrument resembling a trumpet but shorter and wider.
Cone
A solid or hollow object which tapers from a circular or roughly circular base to a point
A cone of acrylic yarn
Stalls selling paper cones full of fresh berries
Cornet
A cone-shaped wafer filled with ice cream.
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Cone
The dry fruit of a conifer, typically tapering to a rounded end and formed of a tight array of overlapping scales on a central axis which separate to release the seeds
A cedar cone
Cornet
The fifth grade of commissioned officer in a cavalry troop, who carried the colours. It is still used in some British cavalry regiments for officers of the rank of second lieutenant.
Cone
One of two types of light-sensitive cell in the retina of the eye, responding mainly to bright light and responsible for sharpness of vision and colour perception.
Cornet
(Music) A wind instrument of the trumpet class, having three valves operated by pistons.
Cone
Separate off or mark a road with traffic cones
Part of the road has been coned off
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Cornet
(also kôrnĭt) A piece of paper twisted into a cone and used to hold small wares such as candy or nuts.
Cone
The surface generated by a straight line, the generator, passing through a fixed point, the vertex, and moving along a fixed curve, the directrix.
Cornet
(also kôrnĭt) A headdress, often cone-shaped, worn by women in the 12th and 13th centuries.
Cone
A right circular cone.
Cornet
A musical instrument of the brass family, slightly smaller than a trumpet, usually in the musical key of B-flat.
Cone
The figure formed by a cone, bound or regarded as bound by its vertex and a plane section taken anywhere above or below the vertex.
Cornet
A piece of paper twisted to be used as a container.
Cone
Something having the shape of this figure
"the cone of illuminated drops spilling beneath a street lamp" (Anne Tyler).
Cornet
A pastry shell to be filled with ice-cream, hence an ice cream cone.
Cone
A unisexual reproductive structure of most gymnospermous plants, such as conifers and cycads, typically consisting of a central axis around which there are scaly, overlapping, spirally arranged sporophylls that bear either pollen-containing structures or ovules.
Cornet
(obsolete) A troop of cavalry; so called from its being accompanied by a cornet player.
Cone
A similar, spore-producing structure of club mosses, horsetails, and spikemosses.
Cornet
A kind of organ stop.
Cone
A reproductive structure resembling a cone, such as the female inflorescence of a hop plant or the woody female catkin of an alder.
Cornet
The white headdress worn by the Sisters of Charity.
Cone
(Physiology) One of the photoreceptors in the retina of the eye that is responsible for daylight and color vision. These photoreceptors are most densely concentrated in the fovea centralis, creating the area of greatest visual acuity. Also called cone cell.
Cornet
(obsolete) The standard flown by a cavalry troop.
Cone
Any of various gastropod mollusks of the family Conidae of tropical and subtropical seas that have a conical, often vividly marked shell and that inject their prey with poisonous toxins, which can be fatal to humans. Also called cone shell.
Cornet
(historical) The fifth commissioned officer in a cavalry troop, who carried the colours (equivalent to the ensign in infantry).
Cone
To shape (something) like a cone or a segment of one.
Cornet
An obsolete rude reed instrument (Ger. Zinken), of the oboe family.
Cone
(geometry) A surface of revolution formed by rotating a segment of a line around another line that intersects the first line. Category:en:Surfaces
Cornet
A cap of paper twisted at the end, used by retailers to inclose small wares.
Cone
(geometry) A solid of revolution formed by rotating a triangle around one of its altitudes.
Cornet
A troop of cavalry; - so called from its being accompanied by a cornet player.
Cone
(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.
Cornet
A headdress
Cone
Anything shaped like a cone.
Cornet
See Coronet, 2.
Cone
The fruit of a conifer.
Cornet
A brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves
Cone
A cone-shaped flower head of various plants, such as banksias and proteas.
Cone
An ice cream cone.
Cone
A traffic cone
Cone
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.
Cone
(anatomy) Any of the small cone-shaped structures in the retina.
Cone
(slang) The bowl piece on a bong.
Cone
(slang) The process of smoking cannabis in a bong.
Cone
(slang) A cone-shaped cannabis joint.
Cone
(slang) A passenger on a cruise ship (so-called by employees after traffic cones, from the need to navigate around them)
Cone
(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.)
A cone is an object (the apex) and a natural transformation from a constant functor (whose image is the apex of the cone and its identity morphism) to a diagram functor. Its components are projections from the apex to the objects of the diagram and it has a “naturality triangle” for each morphism in the diagram. (A “naturality triangle” is just a naturality square which is degenerate at its apex side.)
Cone
A shell of the genus Conus, having a conical form.
Cone
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.
Cone
(transitive) To fashion into the shape of a cone.
Cone
(intransitive) To form a cone shape.
Cone
(frequently followed by "off") To segregate or delineate an area using traffic cones.
Cone
A solid of the form described by the revolution of a right-angled triangle about one of the sides adjacent to the right angle; - called also a right cone. More generally, any solid having a vertical point and bounded by a surface which is described by a straight line always passing through that vertical point; a solid having a circle for its base and tapering to a point or vertex.
Cone
Anything shaped more or less like a mathematical cone; as, a volcanic cone, a collection of scoriæ around the crater of a volcano, usually heaped up in a conical form.
Now had Night measured with her shadowy coneHalf way up hill this vast sublunar vault.
Cone
The fruit or strobile of the Coniferæ, as of the pine, fir, cedar, and cypress. It is composed of woody scales, each one of which has one or two seeds at its base.
Cone
A shell of the genus Conus, having a conical form.
Cone
To render cone-shaped; to bevfl like whe circwlar segoent of a cone; as, to cone the tires of car wheels.
Cone
Any cone-shaped artifact
Cone
A shape whose base is a circle and whose sides taper up to a point
Cone
Cone-shaped mass of ovule- or spore-bearing scales or bracts
Cone
Visual receptor cell sensitive to color
Cone
Make cone-shaped;
Cone a tire
