funnel

1. 1.

   a conical shape with a wider and a narrower opening at the two ends

   Synonymsfunnel shape

   Broadercone
2. 2.

   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

   Broaderutensil

   Partsbell
3. 3.

   (nautical) smokestack consisting of a shaft for ventilation or the passage of smoke (especially the smokestack of a ship)

   Broadersmokestack

   Part ofship

   ship

1. 1.

   move or pour through a funnel

   “funnel the liquid into the small bottle”

   Broadermove

Other forms of funnel

plural

funnels·

past tense or participle

funnelled

present participle

funnelling

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about funnel

What does funnel mean?

funnel means "a conical shape with a wider and a narrower opening at the two ends". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in funnel?

funnel has 2 syllables: fun-nel. The stress falls on "fun". In IPA it is /ˈfʌnəl/.

What is another word for funnel?

Close synonyms include funnel shape. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is funnel a common word?

funnel is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.