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
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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
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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
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Henbane (Hyoscyamus niger) has sticky serrated leaves; yellow, funnel-shaped flowers; and a stale scent.
Media Maxine 2009
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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
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Her larynx — a funnel-shaped organ made of cartilage and muscle that contains the vocal cords — had been fractured.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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