fun·nel funnels funnelling funnelled in AM, use funneling, funneled1. A funnel is an object with a wide, circular top and a narrow short tube at the bottom. Funnels are used to pour liquids into containers which have a small opening, for example bottles
If something funnels somewhere or is funnelled there, it is directed through a narrow space. The winds came from the north, across the plains, funnelling down the valley High tides in the North Sea were funnelled down into the English Channel by a storm
(nautical) smokestack consisting of a shaft for ventilation or the passage of smoke (especially the smokestack of a ship) 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 a conical shape with a wider and a narrower opening at the two ends move or pour through a funnel; "funnel the liquid into the small bottle
If you funnel money, goods, or information from one place or group to another, you cause it to be sent there as it becomes available. Its Global Programme on AIDS funnelled money from donors to governments = channel
You can describe as a funnel something that is narrow, or narrow at one end, through which a substance flows and is directed. These fires create convection funnels, and throw a lot of particles into the upper atmosphere
A funnel occurs when one or more skydivers find themselves in an unstable body position and end up in a skydivers burble The resulting loss of stability for the other skydivers usually causes the formation to break up
The smokestack Used to eject smoke from a ship's boilers and maintain a fresh supply of oxygen to the fires Collapsed funnels could cause a ship to lose speed due to "choked" boilers caused by the resulting inadequate draft