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See funnel
n. a conical shape with a wider and a narrower opening at the two ends [syn: funnel shape]
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
(nautical) smokestack consisting of a shaft for ventilation or the passage of smoke (especially the smokestack of a ship)
[also: funnelling, funnelled]
v. move or pour through a funnel; "funnel the liquid into the small bottle"
[also: funnelling, funnelled]
Usage examples of "funnelled".
The roar of a motorboat was funnelled along the little calk, and receded.
It's the sight of a truck bed with two-meter-high imitation test tubes racked on it, with plastic extensions to the exhaust pipe ingeniously funnelled through to make fumes come out of the tubes, that suddenly crystalizes a suspicion from his inchoate thoughts: Avakian!
The Afine Valleys were famous for the force of their regular high winds, the great, swirling columns of air that were twisted over on their sides and funnelled Antispinward down the great canyons.
The immense weather-gathering data centres funnelled in data and weather forecasts were changed every half-hour.
I was looking for Nazis and for Russian agents being funnelled into the other sectors of the city, then to the West, under the guise of displaced persons and even German soldiers.
If so, your mind energy was negative, funnelled in and pressing down on the brain as already described, causing dysfunction of the electro-magnetic circuit around your body and producing depression and fatigue.
A dozen streams bubbling out from the head of the valley funnelled into a small river which meandered off into the distance.
Pico de Santa Fe would be deflecting the wind down on to the lagoon and port so that it funnelled through the channel and out between the headlands on each side of the entrance, Punta Reina and Morro Colorado.