funnel
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
funnel/ˈfʌnl/
▶noun
- 1 a utensil that is wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, used for guiding liquid or powder into a small opening.
- 2 a metal chimney on a ship or steam engine.
- 1 guide or move through or as if through a funnel.
- 2 assume the shape of a funnel.
– origin ME: appar. via OFr. from Provençal fonilh, from late L. fundibulum, from L. infundibulum, from infundere ‘pour into’.
'funnel' also found in these Oxford entries:
arytenoid
- chanterelle
- drogue
- funnel cake
- funnel neck
- funnel-web spider
- horn of plenty
- infundibulum
- megaphone
- nemesia
- petunia
- rake
- salpiglossis
- saxhorn
- sea lavender
- smokebox
- smokestack
- streptocarpus
- tornado
- trapdoor spider
- tundish
- whirlwind
- windsail
