0 an object that has a wide round opening at the top, sloping sides, and a narrow tube at the bottom, used for pouring liquids or powders into containers with narrow necks -- 漏斗
1 a vertical metal pipe on the top of a ship or steam train through which smoke comes out -- （輪船或蒸汽火車上的）煙囪
2 to put something, or to travel, through a funnel or something that acts like a funnel -- （使）流經漏斗；（使）經過漏斗形口子
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.
