Cone vs. Core

Cone vs. Core — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Cone and Core

Conenoun

(geometry) A surface of revolution formed by rotating a segment of a line around another line that intersects the first line.

Corenoun

The central part of fruit, containing the kernels or seeds.

the core of an apple or quince

Conenoun

(geometry) A solid of revolution formed by rotating a triangle around one of its altitudes.

Corenoun

The heart or inner part of a physical thing

Conenoun

(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.

Corenoun

The center or inner part of a space or area

the core of a square
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Conenoun

Anything shaped like a cone.

Corenoun

The most important part of a thing; the essence.

the core of a subject

Conenoun

The fruit of a conifer.

Corenoun

(engineering) The portion of a mold that creates an internal cavity within a casting or that makes a hole in or through a casting.

Conenoun

An ice cream cone.

Corenoun

The bony process which forms the central axis of the horns in many animals.

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Conenoun

A traffic cone

Corenoun

(computing) Magnetic data storage.

Conenoun

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.

Corenoun

(computer hardware) An individual computer processor, in the sense when several processors (called cores or CPU cores) are plugged together in one single integrated circuit to work as one (called multi-core processor).

I wanted to play a particular computer game, which required I buy a new computer, so while the game said it needed at least a dual-core processor, I wanted my computer to be a bit ahead of the curve, so I bought a quad-core.

Conenoun

Any of the small cone-shaped structures in the retina.

Corenoun

(engineering) The material between surface materials in a structured composite sandwich material.

a floor panel with a Nomex honeycomb core

Conenoun

(slang) The bowl piece on a bong.

Corenoun

The inner part of a nuclear reactor in which the nuclear reaction takes place.

Conenoun

(slang) The process of smoking cannabis in a bong.

Corenoun

A piece of soft iron, inside the windings of an electromagnet, that channels the magnetic field.

Conenoun

(slang) A cone-shaped cannabis joint.

Corenoun

A disorder of sheep caused by worms in the liver.

Conenoun

(slang) A passenger on a cruise ship (so-called by employees after traffic cones, from the need to navigate around them)

Corenoun

A cylindrical sample of rock or other materials obtained by core drilling.

Conenoun

(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.)

Corenoun

(medicine) A tiny sample of organic material obtained by means of a fine-needle biopsy.

Conenoun

A shell of the genus Conus, having a conical form.

Corenoun

(biochemistry) The central part of a protein structure consisting in mostly hydrophobic aminoacids.

Conenoun

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.

Corenoun

(game theory) The set of feasible allocations that cannot be improved upon by a subset (a coalition) of the economy's agents.

Coneverb

(pottery) To fashion into the shape of a cone.

Corenoun

(printing) A hollow cylindrical piece of cardboard around which a web of paper or plastic is winded.

Coneverb

(frequently followed by "off") To segregate or delineate an area using traffic cones

Corenoun

(obsolete) A body of individuals; an assemblage.

Conenoun

any cone-shaped artifact

Corenoun

A miner's underground working time or shift.

Conenoun

a shape whose base is a circle and whose sides taper up to a point

Corenoun

: a former Hebrew and Phoenician unit of volume.

Conenoun

cone-shaped mass of ovule- or spore-bearing scales or bracts

Corenoun

A deposit paid by the purchaser of a rebuilt part, to be refunded on return of a used, rebuildable part, or the returned rebuildable part itself.

Conenoun

visual receptor cell sensitive to color

Coreverb

To remove the core of an apple or other fruit.

Coneverb

make cone-shaped;

cone a tire

Coreverb

To extract a sample with a drill.

Corenoun

the center of an object;

the ball has a titanium core

Corenoun

a small group of indispensable persons or things;

five periodicals make up the core of their publishing program

Corenoun

the central part of the Earth

Corenoun

the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience;

the gist of the prosecutor's argumentthe heart and soul of the Republican Partythe nub of the story

Corenoun

a cylindrical sample of soil or rock obtained with a hollow drill

Corenoun

an organization founded by James Leonard Farmer in 1942 to work for racial equality

Corenoun

the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work

Corenoun

the chamber of a nuclear reactor containing the fissile material where the reaction takes place

Corenoun

a bar of magnetic material (as soft iron) that passes through a coil and serves to increase the inductance of the coil

Coreverb

remove the core or center from;

core an apple