Vortex vs Funnel - What's the difference?
vortex | funnel |
A whirlwind, whirlpool, or similarly moving matter in the form of a spiral or column.
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(figuratively) Anything that involves constant violent or chaotic activity around some centre.
(figuratively) Anything that inevitably draws surrounding things into its current.
(historical) A supposed collection of particles of very subtle matter, endowed with a rapid rotary motion around an axis which was also the axis of a sun or planet; part of a Cartesian theory accounting for the formation of the universe, and the movements of the bodies composing it.
(zoology) Any of numerous species of small Turbellaria belonging to Vortex and allied genera.
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).
As nouns the difference between vortex and funnel
is that vortex is a whirlwind, whirlpool, or similarly moving matter in the form of a spiral or column 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 a verb funnel is
to use a funnel.vortex
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Noun
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Quotations
2004': the consumer '''vortex that is East Hampton — ''The New Yorker, 30 August 2004, p.38See also
* eddy * ley line * maelstromReferences
* * English nouns with irregular plurals ----funnel
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(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.