WordNet
n. a conical shape with a wider and a narrower opening at the two ends [syn: funnel]
Usage examples of "funnel shape".
They had concluded that the funnel shape provided a maximum of individuality and privacy for the residents.
As she swung into profile you could see the distinctive funnel shape, that bulbous expansion that carried masts and search-radar aerials.
The underside of the cloud surged out, belling downward and narrowing into a black funnel shape.
The form in which it was extended, however, was designed to increase in cross section until it was as wide as the galaxy to which it was being sent Crudely, then, the energy flow could be represented as a funnel shape, with the small end at the lens of S Doradus and the width of the funnel increasing over the light-years of intergalactic distance between lens and galaxy, until the large end could contain our whole galaxy, including its spiral arms.
Pointing almost away from that great funnel shape was the track of a much later meteorite: a crippled General Products spacecraft, with its passengers frozen in stasis, had touched down at a horizontal seven hundred and seventy miles per second.
He picked up a charred stick and drew a funnel shape on the cave floor.
It always looks as if the energy is being drawn down in a funnel shape, through the top of the head and down into the body.
It wasn't high, the pinnacle barely topping the highest branches of the surrounding trees, yet it reached upwards in solid defiance of its earthly base as though it could pierce the heavens themselves, and feed through its funnel shape the souls of the faithful.
He grew a thick funnel shape out of the center of his chest and poured the quantum dots into it.
It had run like warm taffy and made itself into this funnel shape that flattened her nose and pulled her eyesockets all long and Chinese to the sides and made her look like some kind of insect.
The delicate smocking over the midriff extending in a funnel shape down into a gored skirt flaring nearly to the floor.
It had run like warm taffy and made itself into this funnel shape that flattened her nose and pulled her eyesockets all long and Chinese to the sides and made her look like some kind of insect .