funnel

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fun·nel1 /ˈfʌnl/ noun [countableC]

TDa thin tube with a wide top that you use for pouring liquid into a container with a narrow opening, such as a bottle 漏鬥 →4 See picture of 見圖 funnel →5 see picture at 見圖 laboratory

2. TT British EnglishBrE a metal chimney that allows smoke from a steam engine or steamship to get out 〔蒸汽機或輪船的〕（金屬）煙囪

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funnel• Made a funnel of the waxed paper, and tipped it into my wide-open mouth.• One is reduced to her ribs; the other still has her steel plating and her funnel.• From the other, funnels of smoke poured with flames licking behind them, lighting the dark smoke garishly.• MacLane lit up a cigarette and breathed smoke into the funnel of light.• An opening in a small pipe near the end of the funnel chuffed steam in bursts.

funnel2 verb (funnelled, funnelling British EnglishBrE, funneled, funneling American EnglishAmE)

1 [intransitiveI, transitiveT always + adverbadv/prepositionprep] if you funnel something somewhere, or if it funnels there, it goes there by passing through a narrow opening （使）流經漏鬥形空間；（使）通過小口子

Police at the barriers funnelled the crowd into the arena.

栅欄旁邊的警察指揮着人流進入體育場。

Incoming tides funnel up the channel with enormous power.

漲起的潮水洶湧地沖進河槽。

2 [transitiveT always + adverbadv/prepositionprep] to send money, information etc from various places to someone 使〔資金、信息等〕匯集[集中] SYN channel

His office funneled millions of dollars in secret contributions to the re-election campaign.

他的辦公室匯集了數百萬美元的秘密捐款用於連任競選。

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funnel• The choices funnel down and you go where the funnel goes.• Everything he does funnels in and out of him through his talent.• Economic aid from 24 countries will be funneled into the war zone.• Its aerodynamic shape means that wind is funnelled round its surface causing little movement to the structure.• The bluff is the end of a narrowing tongue of land which would have funnelled the herd to a point.• The basin funnels the wind and shoots it out over this ridge.• The Clinton campaign does not accept money from political action committees through which teacher unions funnel their contributions.• The Expos always seem to have the right player to funnel to the big leagues.

Origin funnel1

(1400-1500) Old Provençal fonilh, from Latin infundibulum, from fundere “to pour”

fun·nel1 nounfunnel2 verb

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