Definitions for funnels

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funnels fun·nel

Spelling: [fuhn-l]

IPA: /ˈfʌn l/

Funnels is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 87 anagrams from letters in funnels (eflnnsu).

Definitions for funnels

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 funnels

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

Examples for funnels

She did not appear to be a steamer because she had no funnels.

Smoke belching black from her funnels, the monster was beginning to move.

Above him towered one of the funnels, before him a long, slender mast.

Another reason to keep an upper hand: Russia also funnels oil to Europe via a pipeline that runs directly through Ukraine.

It will be convenient to have several of these funnels of different sizes.

You will readily recognise her from the fact that she is the only craft with five funnels.

The funnels were belching smoke, and sparks flying from the top.

Create a public jobs program that funnels the unemployed to fast growing areas such as at-home health care and child care.

Both her masts and three of her four funnels were shot away.

This gave the Emden four funnels, such as the Yarmouth carried.