Buchner funnel
 
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Straining & filtering devices
air filter
butter paper
charcoal filter
coffee filter
filter
filter bed
filter paper
greaseproof paper
HEPA filter
hopper
parchment paper
salad spinner
sieve
sifter
skimmer
strainer
tea strainer
water filter
wringer

funnelnoun[C] (ON A SHIP/TRAIN)

(US alsosmokestack)
a vertical metal pipe on the top of a ship or steam train through which smoke comes out（轮船或蒸汽机车上的）烟囱
 
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Parts of ships & boats
abaft
airlock
bilge water
boathook
boiler room
bowline
cleat
keel
paddle
periscope
propeller
prow
rigging
spar
sprit
steerage
stem
strop
sun deck
superstructure

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Railways: trains & parts of trains

funnelnoun[C] (BUSINESS)

business specialized(alsoconversion funnel, marketing funnel, sales funnel)
especially in e-commerce(= the business of selling things on the internet), the process that a customer goes through from first hearing about a product, for example through an internet search or advertisement, to buying the product, with a smaller number of customers at each stage of the process:
At the top of the funnel the user is just starting to do research about a product and might spend time investigating different brands.
The funnel helps marketing teams plan and measure efforts to attract, engage, and convert prospects.
The conversion funnel is the cornerstone of all e-commerce business models.
A marketing funnel describes your customer’s journey with you, from first becoming aware of your brand to buying goods and services.
There are several steps to a sales funnel, usually known as the top, middle, and bottom of the funnel.

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Advertising and marketing
ad
ad agency
adman
adverse publicity
advert
cross-selling
customer relationship management
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detoxify
differentiator
o.n.o.
off-brand
on-brand
opinion mining
overexpose
tout
trade dress
unadvertised
unbilled
unbranded
funnel
verb
uk /ˈfʌn.əl/ us /ˈfʌn.əl/-ll- or US usually-l-
[ I or T, usually+ adv/prep ]
to put something or to travel through a funnel or something that acts like a funnel: （使）流经漏斗;（使）经过漏斗形口子
funnel downThe wind funnels down these narrow streets.风吹过狭窄的街道。
The children funelled along the corridor into the school hall.
The team were content to play defensively, with midfielders and forwards funnelling back to support the defence.
funnel intoIf you funnel the oil into the engine, you're less likely to spill it.如果你用漏斗往发动机里注油，就不太可能洒出来。
[ Tusually+ adv/prep ]
to send something directly and intentionally: 运送;输送
funnel something to someone/somethingNo one knows who has been funnelling weapons to the terrorists.没人知道是谁一直在向恐怖分子输送武器。
These laws ensure that local revenue for education is funelled into schemes overseen by the local education authority.

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Movement of liquids
backsplash
be dripping with somethingidiom
brim
brim over
brim with something
drip
drool
leakage
pour
pour-over
reinject
reinjection
respray
ripple
spate
staunch
stem
swash
swill
swirl

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Delivering and despatching

funnel | American Dictionary

funnel
noun[ C ]
us/ˈfʌn·əl/

funnelnoun[C] (TUBE)

a tube with a wide opening at the top, sides that slope inward, and a narrow opening at the bottom, used for pouring liquids or powders into containers that have small openings:
Pour the batter through a funnel into hot oil.
funnel
verb[ I/T ]
us/ˈfʌn·əl/-l- | -ll-

funnelverb[I/T] (MOVE)

to move or be moved through a narrow space, or to put something in a place or use something for a particular purpose:
[ I ]The crowd funneled into the theater.
[ T ]We’ve been funneling our money into renovations.

Examples of funnel

funnel
Any coarse material that had fallen into the funnels was regularly removed by hand.
Thus, here, we have excited energy exchange in various forms: running motors and engines, flowing and cascading water, networks of sluices and funnels, electricity.
To minimize contamination by fine organic debris falling into the funnels pieces of nylon wire mesh (2-mm mesh width) were fitted at their outlets.
In addition, six collectors (polyethylene funnels 15 cm in diameter) were installed in open areas for direct rainfall measurements.
Public funds can be funnelled indirectly, through care recipients to their family-care providers, or can be made directly from a government agency to the care-giver.
A scan at this time showing funnelling down to the stitch or a reduced cervical length was predictive of preterm delivery.
The solventmediated hydrophilic interaction plays a key role in determining the structural specificity of globular proteins and contributes to their funneled energy landscape.
Insects that emerge from the soil and fly also tend to be funnelled towards the top of the trap.
The robot simultaneously creates geometrically precise virtual surfaces, funnels, and paths in space that the user selects to slide along.
Folding funnels and frustration in off-lattice minimalist protein landscapes.
The leaves were ground in liquid nitrogen, funnelled into cryotubes, and stored in liquid nitrogen.
Where the ocean floor is close to the surface, the water moves faster, as well as in narrow areas where the water is funneled into closer confines.
From levintal to pathways to funnels.
Conceivably, funnelling could thus be so strong and so cannily distributed throughout the protein structure that no bottlenecks to folding remain.
Exploring structures in protein folding funnels with free energy functinals : the transition state ensemble.
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