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Funnel

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Noun

1. funnel, funnel shape

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

2. funnel

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

3. funnel

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

Verb

4. funnel

move or pour through a funnel

Example Sentences:
'funnel the liquid into the small bottle'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Funnel

see synonyms of funnel
noun
1. 
a hollow utensil with a wide mouth tapering to a small hole, used for pouring liquids, powders, etc, into a narrow-necked vessel
2. 
something resembling this in shape or function
3. 
a smokestack for smoke and exhaust gases, as on a steamship or steam locomotive
4. 
a shaft or tube, as in a building, for ventilation
verb -nels, nelling, -nelled or US -nels, -neling or -neled
5. 
to move or cause to move or pour through or as if through a funnel
6. 
to concentrate or focus or be concentrated or focused in a particular direction
they funnelled their attention on the problem
7. (intransitive)
to take on a funnel-like shape

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Funnel

see synonyms of funnel
noun
1. 
an instrument consisting of an inverted cone with a hole at the small end, or a tapering or cylindrical tube with a wide, cone-shaped mouth, for pouring liquids and powders into containers that have small openings
2. 
a thing shaped like a funnel
3. 
a. 
a cylindrical smokestack, as of a steamship
b. 
a chimney or flue
verb intransitive, verb transitiveWord forms: ˈfunneled or ˈfunnelled, ˈfunneling or ˈfunnelling
4. 
to move or pour through a funnel
5. 
to form in the shape of a funnel
6. 
to move into a central channel or to a central point

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Funnel

see synonyms of funnel
n.
1.
a. 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.
b. Something resembling this utensil in shape.
2. A shaft, flue, or stack for ventilation or the passage of smoke, especially the smokestack of a ship or locomotive.
v. fun·neled, fun·nel·ing, fun·nels or fun·nelled or fun·nel·ling
v.intr.
1. To take the shape of a funnel.
2. To move through or as if through a funnel: tourists funneling slowly through customs.
v.tr.
1. To cause to take the shape of a funnel.
2. To cause to move through or as if through a funnel.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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