funnel
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.
a smokestack, especially of a steamship.
a flue, tube, or shaft, as for ventilation.
Eastern New England. a stovepipe.
to concentrate, channel, or focus: They funneled all income into research projects.
to pour through or as if through a funnel.
to pass through or as if through a funnel.
Origin of funnel
1Other words from funnel
- fun·nel·like, adjective
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How to use funnel in a sentence
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Machine learning is unlocking performance at scale for app marketers | Facebook Gaming | October 28, 2020 | DigidayKnowledge workers in the 21st century typically resign themselves to this fact and accept that they’ll lose hours each week to watching their colleagues explain business plans with trapezoids, funnels, and arrows.
Then, using your funnel to avoid spillage, fill each jar with halved tomatoes.
Both of these are vital tools for bringing prospects further down your sales funnel toward conversion.
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And it depends on grand juries who act as a conveyor belt, quickly funneling tens of thousands of young Black men into prison.
So far the prisoner releases seem to have only succeeded in funneling commanders and fighters back to the fighting.
Freed Taliban Prisoners in Pakistan and Afghanistan Return to Jihad | Ron Moreau & Sami Yousafzai | December 6, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTMoustafa is also suspected of funneling money from wealthy Syrians and Syrian Americans in the U.S. to the regime through China.
Exclusive: State Department Approves, Then Revokes, Visa for New Syrian Diplomat | Josh Rogin | July 9, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTShe had several unsavory friends, one of whom was funneling money through her bank account.
DSK’s Immunity Claim Rejected: Nafissatou Diallo Will Have Her Day in Court | Christopher Dickey | May 1, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTMost of Europe navigated the crisis in decent shape, despite funneling torrents of cash into their beleaguered banks.
Daoud began scooping up the stones and funneling them into the hidden pocket of his belt.
The Saracen: Land of the Infidel | Robert SheaIt didn't climb until it got away from the funneling effect of the creek and into the river, then it went up pretty fast.
The Flying Stingaree | Harold Leland Goodwin
British Dictionary definitions for funnel
/ (ˈfʌnəl) /
a hollow utensil with a wide mouth tapering to a small hole, used for pouring liquids, powders, etc, into a narrow-necked vessel
something resembling this in shape or function
a smokestack for smoke and exhaust gases, as on a steamship or steam locomotive
a shaft or tube, as in a building, for ventilation
to move or cause to move or pour through or as if through a funnel
to concentrate or focus or be concentrated or focused in a particular direction: they funnelled their attention on the problem
(intr) to take on a funnel-like shape
Origin of funnel
1Derived forms of funnel
- funnel-like, adjective
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