funnel
noun
[ ˈfʌn(ə)l ]
• a tube or pipe that is wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, used for guiding liquid or powder into a small opening.
• a metal chimney on a ship or steam engine.
funnel
verb
• guide or channel (something) through or as if through a funnel.
• "some $12.8 billion was funnelled through the Marshall Plan"
Similar:
channel,
guide,
feed,
direct,
convey,
move,
pass,
pour,
filter,
siphon,
Origin:
late Middle English: apparently via Old French from Provençal fonilh, from late Latin fundibulum, from Latin infundibulum, from infundere, from in- ‘into’ + fundere ‘pour’.
