noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
fir cone
ice cream cone
snow cone
traffic cone
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
light
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Outside the light cone are events at space-like separations from P 1, and these can not ever communicate with P 1.
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These geodesics will lie inside the forward light cone through the starting event; they are time-like with.
orange
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The long string of orange cones ended, and the traffic speeded up.
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Motorists wend their way through orange traffic cones and detour signs.
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They run over the orange cones .
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The home-run fence at Southcrest Park has been taken down and replaced by orange cones , ostensibly as a safety precaution.
■ NOUN
fir
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There were sudden sharp sounds, a fir cone dropping to the ground, a seagull.
nose
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The nose cone of the plane was shrouded in shadow.
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Oxygen was being administered through a nose cone .
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Carrington looked at Talbot and shook his head, then dropped down to the sea-bed in front of the nose cone .
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Because McWilliams often takes the bike out on the road, he has to swop the nose cone for the original.
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A spinner nose cone assembly to be built to drawing.
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Except that the fire is definitely located in the nose cone , which would rule out any engine explosion.
pine
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Or the pine cone hanging by his door.
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They look like crude, longish pine cones , with bracts clearly recognizable as modified leaves.
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The pine cone appeared on many ancient amulets and was regarded as a symbol of fertility.
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Hanging from the ceiling is a cello-size pine cone .
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She was picking up huge pine cones .
traffic
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Also it should be lit at night and have traffic cones placed in an oblique line on the approach to it.
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Motorists wend their way through orange traffic cones and detour signs.
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It displayed no owner identification marks and was without benefit of either warning traffic cones or night lights.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a volcanic cone
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Remember how they used to give you roasted chestnuts in a little cone of newspaper?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Botany yarns and cotton yarns are dry spun and waxed on cone .
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He pulled up, climbed out, and removed the plastic cone that had kept the space free.
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He walked further into the hall, shifting the cone of yellow light.
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Its massive cone rose five thousand feet above the Bahdu plain and a chain of foothills stretched south-west parallel with the Awash.
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Lower down and a little to the left rose the slimmer, more pointed cone of a second, subsidiary volcano.
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Spray wax is easy to use, just spray the ball or cone lightly.
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The family of light cones at all the points may be regarded as part of the Minkowskian geometry of space-time.
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These spatter cones contain little, if any, fine-grained ashy material and are amongst the most characteristic products of Hawaiian eruptions.