Words Like FUNNEL
We have put together a list of words that are similar to FUNNEL.
5 Alternative Words Similar to funnel
10 definitions of funnel
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A hollow cone or conical vessel, usually of tin or other metal, with a tube issuing from its apex, used for conveying fluids into a vessel with a small opening; a filler.
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A passage for a fluid or vapor, as the shaft or channel of a chimney through which smoke ascends; specifically, in steamships and locomotives, an iron chimney for the boiler-furnaces; the smoke-stack.
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Nautical, a metal cylinder fitted on the topgallant- and royalmastheads of men-of-war, on which the eyes of the topgallant- and royal-rigging are fitted.
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In anatomy and biology, an infundibulum: as, the funnel of a cuttlefish.
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In the Rhizocarpæ, a space between the thick outer coats of the macrospore, into which the apical papilla projects.
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In the chambered cephalopods, the extension of the septum about the siphuncle.
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A utensil of the shape of an inverted hollow cone, terminating below in a pipe, and used for conveying liquids etc. into a close vessel; a tunnel.
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A passage or avenue for a fluid or flowing substance; specifically, a smoke flue or pipe; the chimney of a steamship or the like.
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To proceed through a narrow gap or passageway akin to a funnel; to narrow or condense.