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Funnel   /fˈənəl/   Listen
Funnel

noun
1.
A conical shape with a wider and a narrower opening at the two ends.  Synonym: funnel shape.
2.
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.
(nautical) smokestack consisting of a shaft for ventilation or the passage of smoke (especially the smokestack of a ship).
verb
1.
Move or pour through a funnel.



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"Funnel" Quotes from Famous Books



... room is a door opening into one of the towers, the lower part of which only remains, of massy grout-work, and with three arches, each furnished with a funnel or aperture like a chimney. On the left side of the hall are the remains of a very curious window-frame of oak, wrought in Gothic tracery, but square at top. Near the top of the hall, on the right, are ...
— Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2) • John Roby

... table, on which he deposited a small flask, the contents of which were in a state of brisk effervescence, a bottle labelled "calcium hypochlorite," and a white porcelain tile. The flask was fitted with a safety-funnel and a glass tube drawn out to a fine jet, to which Polton cautiously applied a lighted match. Instantly there sprang from the jet a tiny, pale violet flame. Thorndyke now took the tile, and held it in the flame for a few seconds, when the appearance of the surface remained unchanged ...
— John Thorndyke's Cases • R. Austin Freeman

... the doctor and midwife, and explaining what the opium was needed for, tried to persuade him. The assistant inquired in German whether he should give it, and receiving an affirmative reply from behind the partition, he took out a bottle and a funnel, deliberately poured the opium from a bigger bottle into a little one, stuck on a label, sealed it up, in spite of Levin's request that he would not do so, and was about to wrap it up too. This was more than Levin could stand; he took the bottle firmly out of his hands, and ran to ...
— Anna Karenina • Leo Tolstoy

... me the ground fell down steeply, and the torn sides of the crater formed a funnel-shaped cavity, a dark, yawning depth. There were jagged rocks, fantastic, wild ridges, crevices, fearful depths, from which issued steam and smoke. Poisonous vapour poured out of the rocks in white and brownish clouds that waved to and fro, slowly rising, until a breeze caught and carried them ...
— Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific • Felix Speiser

... Volume of all ship's enclosed spaces (from keel to funnel) measured to the outside of the hull framing (1 ton ...
— History of the World War - An Authentic Narrative of the World's Greatest War • Francis A. March and Richard J. Beamish


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