[ UK /fˈʌnə‍l/ ]
[ US /ˈfənəɫ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a conical shape with a wider and a narrower opening at the two ends
  2. (nautical) smokestack consisting of a shaft for ventilation or the passage of smoke (especially the smokestack of a ship)
  3. 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
VERB
  1. move or pour through a funnel
    funnel the liquid into the small bottle
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How To Use funnel In A Sentence

  • – The agreement contains a complicated escrow system that may allow the $480 million to be funneled from the Treasury Department to the White House. Think Progress » SOURCE: Obscure Trade Settlement Could Create $480 Million Slush Fund for White House
  • We examined publication bias and related biases in funnel plots and carried out a test of funnel plot asymmetry.
  • The chimney, usually of lath and plaster, ending overhead in a cone and funnel for the smoke, was so roomy in old cottages as to accommodate almost the whole family sitting around the fire of logs piled in the reredosse in the middle, and there they carried on their winter's work. The Life of Thomas Telford
  • She narrowly missed out on gold to Pippa Funnell after knocking down a fence in the showjumping.
  • An evolutionary biologist at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina, specializes in trapdoor and funnel-web spiders, and tarantulas.
  • He sat to the last moment doggedly struggling to keep cool and to mount the ciliated funnel of an earthworm’s nephridium. Love and Mr Lewisham
  • One more component: the journalism and communications program funneling journalists into broadcast media.
  • Four other people in the area have been poisoned by funnel web spiders since 1992.
  • Chief among those experts is Lyn Abra, who milked funnel-webs for their venom for three decades, first for Sutherland's research and then for commercial antivenin production.
  • The fumigation and oxygenation apparatus comprises a large stone jar with a glass funnel and a pipe leading into the room.
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