Funnel vs. Hopper

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.

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.

Funnelverb

To use a funnel.

Funnelverb

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

Funnelverb

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

Funnelverb

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

Funnelnoun

A vessel of the shape of an inverted hollow cone, terminating below in a pipe, and used for conveying liquids or pourable solids into a vessel with a narrow opening; a tunnel.

Funnelnoun

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

Funnelnoun

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

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

Funnelnoun

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

Funnelverb

move or pour through a funnel;

Funnel

A funnel is a tube or pipe that is wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, used for guiding liquid or powder into a small opening. Funnels are usually made of stainless steel, aluminium, glass, or plastic.

Hoppernoun

One who or that which hops.

Hoppernoun

A temporary storage bin, filled from the top and emptied from the bottom, often funnel-shaped.

Hoppernoun

A funnel-shaped section at the top of a drainpipe used to collect water, from above, from one or more smaller drainpipes.

Hoppernoun

A device that feeds material into a machine.

Hoppernoun

Various insects

Hoppernoun

A grasshopper or locust, especially:

Hoppernoun

The larva of a cheese fly.

Hoppernoun

A leafhopper.

Hoppernoun

Any of various hesperiid butterflies.

Hoppernoun

An artificial fishing lure.

Hoppernoun

(slang) A toilet.

Hoppernoun

(music) An escapement lever in a piano.

Hoppernoun

(obsolete) The game of hopscotch.

Hoppernoun

A window with hinges at the bottom, opened by tilting vertically.

Hoppernoun

A hopper car.

Hoppernoun

(chess) A fairy chess piece which moves only by jumping over another piece.

Hoppernoun

A person or machine that picks hops.

Hoppernoun

One who, or that which, hops.

Hoppernoun

A chute, box, or receptacle, usually funnel-shaped with an opening at the lower part, for delivering or feeding any material, as to a machine; as, the wooden box with its trough through which grain passes into a mill by joining or shaking, or a funnel through which fuel passes into a furnace, or coal, etc., into a car.

Hoppernoun

See Grasshopper, 2.

Hoppernoun

A game. See Hopscotch.

Hoppernoun

See Grasshopper, and Frog hopper, Grape hopper, Leaf hopper, Tree hopper, under Frog, Grape, Leaf, and Tree.

Hoppernoun

A vessel for carrying waste, garbage, etc., out to sea, so constructed as to discharge its load by a mechanical contrivance; - called also dumping scow.

Hoppernoun

funnel-shaped receptacle; contents pass by gravity into a receptacle below

Hoppernoun

someone who hops;

Hoppernoun

a machine used for picking hops

Hoppernoun

terrestrial plant-eating insect with hind legs adapted for leaping

Hoppernoun

(baseball) a hit that travels along the ground