Cone vs. Funnel

Difference Between Cone and Funnel

Conenoun

The surface generated by a straight line, the generator, passing through a fixed point, the vertex, and moving along a fixed curve, the directrix.

Funnelnoun

A conical utensil having a small hole or narrow tube at the apex and used to channel the flow of a substance, as into a small-mouthed container.

Conenoun

A right circular cone.

Funnelnoun

Something resembling this utensil in shape.

Conenoun

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.

Funnelnoun

A shaft, flue, or stack for ventilation or the passage of smoke, especially the smokestack of a ship or locomotive.

Conenoun

Something having the shape of this figure

"the cone of illuminated drops spilling beneath a street lamp" (Anne Tyler).

Funnelverb

To take the shape of a funnel.

Conenoun

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.

Funnelverb

To move through or as if through a funnel

tourists funneling slowly through customs.

Conenoun

A similar, spore-producing structure of club mosses, horsetails, and spikemosses.

Funnelverb

To cause to take the shape of a funnel.

Conenoun

A reproductive structure resembling a cone, such as the female inflorescence of a hop plant or the woody female catkin of an alder.

Funnelverb

To cause to move through or as if through a funnel.

Conenoun

(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.

Funnelnoun

A utensil of the shape of an inverted hollow cone, terminating below in a pipe, and used for conveying liquids etc. into a close vessel; a tunnel.

Conenoun

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.

Funnelnoun

A passage or avenue for a fluid or flowing substance; specifically, a smoke flue or pipe; the chimney of a steamship or the like.

Coneverb

To shape (something) like a cone or a segment of one.

Funnelverb

To use a funnel.

Conenoun

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

Funnelverb

(intransitive) To proceed through a narrow gap or passageway akin to a funnel; to narrow or condense.

Expect delays where the traffic funnels down to one lane.

Conenoun

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

Funnelverb

(transitive) To direct, focus or channel (money, resources, emotions, etc.).

Our taxes are being funnelled into pointless government initiatives.

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.

Funnelverb

(transitive) To consume (beer, etc.) rapidly through a funnel, typically as a stunt at a party.

Conenoun

Anything shaped like a cone.

Funnelnoun

a conical shape with a wider and a narrower opening at the two ends

Conenoun

The fruit of a conifer.

Funnelnoun

a conically shaped utensil having a narrow tube at the small end; used to channel the flow of substances into a container with a small mouth

Conenoun

An ice cream cone.

Funnelnoun

(nautical) smokestack consisting of a shaft for ventilation or the passage of smoke (especially the smokestack of a ship)

Conenoun

A traffic cone

Funnelverb

move or pour through a funnel;

funnel the liquid into the small bottle

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.

Conenoun

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

Conenoun

(slang) The bowl piece on a bong.

Conenoun

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

Conenoun

(slang) A cone-shaped cannabis joint.

Conenoun

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

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.)

Conenoun

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

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.