Usually means: Tool for directing flow efficiently.
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  1. funnel: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. funnel: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. funnel: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. funnel: Collins English Dictionary
  5. funnel: Vocabulary.com
  6. Funnel, funnel: Wordnik
  7. funnel: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. funnel: Wiktionary
  9. funnel: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. funnel: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. funnel: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. funnel: Dictionary.com
  13. funnel (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. funnel: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Funnel (Concurrent computing), Funnel (concurrent computing), Funnel (disambiguation), Funnel (ship), Funnel: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Funnel: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. funnel: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. funnel: Rhymezone
  19. funnel: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. funnel: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. funnel: Free Dictionary
  22. funnel: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. funnel: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. funnel, funnel: Cook's Thesaurus

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Funnel (ship): Encyclopedia
  2. funnel: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Funnel: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. funnel: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Funnel, The Funnel, funnel: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Funnel: Skydiving Glossary
  2. Funnel: Sports Definitions

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  3. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See funneled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A utensil in the shape of an inverted hollow cone terminating in a narrow pipe, for channeling liquids or granular material; typically used when transferring said substances from any container into ones with a significantly smaller opening.
noun:  A passage or avenue for a fluid or flowing substance; specifically, a smoke flue or pipe; the chimney of a steamship or the like.
verb:  (transitive) To use a funnel.
verb:  (intransitive) To proceed through a narrow gap or passageway akin to a funnel; to condense or narrow.
verb:  (transitive) To channel, direct, or focus (emotions, money, resources, etc.).
verb:  (transitive) To consume (beer, etc.) rapidly through a funnel, typically as a stunt at a party.
noun:  (marketing, figurative) Ellipsis of purchase funnel: the process of customer acquisition conceptualized as a series of stages, from initial awareness (top) to sale or conversion (bottom). [(marketing) The process by which a person learns about a brand, is attracted to it, and finally becomes a customer.]
noun:  (meteorology) Ellipsis of funnel cloud. [(meteorology) A tapering, rapidly rotating cloud descending from a larger storm cloud, indicating the presence of an intense vortex. A tornado is a funnel cloud which reaches the ground.]
noun:  Alternative form of fummel (“hybrid animal”) [(UK, dialectal, obsolete) A hinny (the hybrid of a male horse and a female donkey).]

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