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   Fun·nel

   /ˈfən(ə)l/

   

   noun

   • 1. a tube or pipe that is wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, used for guiding liquid or powder into a small opening. Similar tubepipechannelconduit
   • ▪ a thing resembling a funnel in shape or function: "a funnel of light fell from a circular ceiling"
   • 2. a metal chimney on a ship or steam engine. Similar chimneyflueventshaftlum

   verb

   • 1. guide or channel (something) through or as if through a funnel: "some $12.8 billion was funneled through the Marshall Plan"
   • ▪ move or be guided through or as if through a funnel: "the wind funneled down through the valley"
   • ▪ take on the shape of a funnel by widening or narrowing at the end: "the crevice funneled out"

   Word Origin late Middle English: apparently via Old French from Provençal fonilh, from late Latin fundibulum, from Latin infundibulum, from infundere, from in- ‘into’ + fundere ‘pour’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. funnel-like adjective

   Scrabble Points: 9

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