What is the difference between cone and funnel?
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(label) A surface of revolution formed by rotating a segment of a line around another line that intersects the first line.
(label) A solid of revolution formed by rotating a triangle around one of its altitudes.
(label) 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.
Anything shaped like a cone.The Illustrated Oxford Dictionary , Oxford University Press, 1998
The fruit of a conifer.
An ice cream cone.
A traffic 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.
Any of the small cone-shaped structures in the retina.
(label) The bowl piece on a bong.
(label) The process of smoking cannabis in a bong.
(label) A cone-shaped cannabis joint.
(label) A passenger on a cruise ship (so-called by employees after traffic cones, from the need to navigate around them)
(label) Given a diagram F'' : ''J'' → ''C'', a ''cone'' consists of an object ''N'' of ''C'', together with a family of morphisms ψ''X'' : ''N'' → ''F''(''X'') indexed by all of the objects of ''J'', such that for every morphism ''f'' : ''X'' → ''Y'' in ''J'', . Then ''N'' is the ''vertex'' of the ''cone'', whose ''sides'' are all the ψ''X'' indexed by Ob(''J'') and whose ''base'' is ''F''. The ''cone'' is said to be "from ''N'' to ''F''" and can be denoted as (''N , ψ).
A shell of the genus Conus , having a conical form.
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.
(label) To fashion into the shape of a .
(label) To segregate or delineate an area using traffic cones
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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.
A passage or avenue for a fluid or flowing substance; specifically, a smoke flue or pipe; the chimney of a steamship or the like.
To use a funnel.
To proceed through a narrow gap or passageway akin to a funnel; to narrow or condense.
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To direct (money or resources).
Funnel is a synonym of cone.
As nouns the difference between cone and funnel
is that cone is a surface of revolution formed by rotating a segment of a line around another line that intersects the first line while funnel is 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.As verbs the difference between cone and funnel
is that cone is to fashion into the shape of a cone while funnel is to use a funnel.cone
English
(wikipedia cone)Noun
(en noun)- «Let J'' be an index category which has an initial object ''I''. Let ''F'' be a diagram of type ''J'' in ''C''. Then category ''C'' contains a cone from ''F''(''I'') to ''F .»
- «If category C'' has a cone from ''N'' to ''F'' and a morphism from ''M'' to ''N'', then category ''C'' also has a cone from ''M'' to ''F .»
Synonyms
* (geometry) conical surface * (ice cream cone) cornet, ice cream coneDerived terms
{{der3, coneflower , conepiece , conic , conic section , ice cream cone , nose cone , traffic cone}}See also
* quean * queenVerb
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Anagrams
* * ----funnel
English
(wikipedia funnel)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* funnel box * funnel mark * funnel plot * funnel staySee also
* tundishVerb
- Expect delays where the traffic funnels down to one lane.
- A line of clocks in our cheap hotel displays the time in Lagos, Bucharest, Kiev: the capitals of pilgrims who come to kneel at the birthplace of Christ. In reality the entire world funnels through the Church of the Nativity.
- Our taxes are being funnelled into pointless government initiatives.