Definitions for funnel

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funnel fun·nel

Spelling: [fuhn-l]

IPA: /ˈfʌn l/

Funnel is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 46 anagrams from letters in funnel (eflnnu).

Definitions for funnel

noun

1. a cone-shaped utensil with a tube at the apex for conducting liquid or other substance through a small opening, as into a bottle, jug, or the like.
2. a smokestack, especially of a steamship.
3. a flue, tube, or shaft, as for ventilation.
4. Eastern New England. a stovepipe.

verb (used with object)

1. to concentrate, channel, or focus:
2. to pour through or as if through a funnel.

verb (used without object)

1. to pass through or as if through a funnel.

Origin of funnel

1375-1425; late Middle English fonel Old Provençal fonilh (Gascon) Vulgar Latin *fundibulum, for Latin infundibulum, derivative of infundere to pour in

Examples for funnel

She had not a sail aloft nor a plume of smoke in her funnel.

Basically, Time Warner Cable agreed to funnel more cash to CBS.

ISIS is able to funnel about 30 to 50 suicide bombers a month into Iraq.

On the outside the ground slopes away gently from the funnel.

A Prairie-dog hole is shaped like a funnel, going straight down.

So why, then, is Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel lobbying the Illinois legislature to funnel more people into prison for longer?

The funnel was roaring in the depths of the woods; William boldly pursued it for another half mile.

Pour it through a funnel into half-pint bottles, and cork them well.

The funnel was freshly painted black with a red band at the top.

The funnel swerved off the road and came sweeping up the hillside toward them.