cone

US /koʊn/

UK /koʊn/

圓錐體, 錐形物, 筒

a solid or hollow object which tapers from a circular or roughly circular base to a point

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The ice cream was served in a waffle cone.

冰淇淋裝在華夫筒裡。

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Traffic cones were placed to mark the construction area.

放置了交通錐以標記施工區域。

松果, 球果

the dry fruit of a conifer, typically a woody structure that contains seeds

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Squirrels often collect pine cones for their seeds.

松鼠經常收集松果以獲取種子。

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The forest floor was covered with fallen pine cones.

森林地面上鋪滿了掉落的松果。

視錐細胞

a light-sensitive cell in the retina of the eye, which provides sharp vision and color discrimination

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The human eye has millions of cones that detect color.

人眼有數百萬個檢測顏色的視錐細胞。

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Defects in cones can lead to color blindness.

視錐細胞缺陷可能導致色盲。

使成錐形, 捲成錐形

to make something into the shape of a cone

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She coned the paper to make a party hat.

她把紙捲成錐形做了一個派對帽。

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The engineers coned the metal sheet for the rocket nose.

工程師們將金屬板製成錐形作為火箭的頭部。