Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as funnelform.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective shaped in the form of a funnel

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Examples

  • Standing outside her Hyundai, Taylor Barley was selling small individual packets of tissues and something called the UriMate, a funnel-shaped contraption that allows women to stay on their feet when using a portable toilet.

    Selling Obama on 17th Street - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2009

  • Standing outside her Hyundai, Taylor Barley was selling small individual packets of tissues and something called the UriMate, a funnel-shaped contraption that allows women to stay on their feet when using a portable toilet.

    Selling Obama on 17th Street - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2009

  • Henbane (Hyoscyamus niger) has sticky serrated leaves; yellow, funnel-shaped flowers; and a stale scent.

    Media Maxine 2009

  • Honeywell International Inc., the maker of the T-Hawk, has supplied four of the funnel-shaped drones to help Tokyo Electric Power Co., the plant's operator.

    A New Role for Honeywell's T-Hawk Andy Pasztor 2011

  • Her larynx — a funnel-shaped organ made of cartilage and muscle that contains the vocal cords — had been fractured.

    After 7 surgeries, woman's voice restored 2011

  • The centerpiece of the renovated complex will be a funnel-shaped, ramped observation tower inserted between the older buildings.

    First Stop on the Journey to Ellis Island Mark Lamster 2010

  • The term derives from a funnel-shaped storage bin filled from the top and emptied from the bottom, which is often used to house grain or coal.

    HUFFPOST HILL - JULY 26TH, 2010 2010

  • Seconds after Justin Chanda pulled the Prius convertible off Interstate 44, he spotted something out the corner of his eye—a funnel-shaped cloud.

    Talent Show DAN GUTMAN 2010

  • Watch players bound onto the field in flannel uniforms, hear jazz piped through the funnel-shaped speakers, lick a snowcone, and good luck convincing yourself that, on the way from the parking lot, you did not pass through a wormhole in time to 1910.

    Keith Thomson: How America's Oldest Baseball Stadium Can Be Yours for $1 2010

  • Connecting the well to a third vessel would allow BP and the Obama administration to make a final decision about replacing a leaky, funnel-shaped collection cap with a bolt-on seal that would route oil and gas from the well to the surface.

    The oil spill: The latest developments 2010

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