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Funnel vs Concentrate - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between funnel and concentrate

is that funnel is a utensil of the shape of an inverted hollow cone, terminating below in a pipe, and used for conveying liquids etc. into a close vessel; a tunnel while concentrate is a substance that is in a condensed form.

As verbs the difference between funnel and concentrate

is that funnel is to use a funnel while concentrate is to bring to, or direct toward, a common center; to unite more closely; to gather into one body, mass, or force.

funnel

English

(wikipedia funnel)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A utensil of the shape of an inverted hollow cone, terminating below in a pipe, and used for conveying liquids etc. into a close vessel; a tunnel.
  • A passage or avenue for a fluid or flowing substance; specifically, a smoke flue or pipe; the chimney of a steamship or the like.

    • Derived terms

    * funnel box * funnel mark * funnel plot * funnel stay

    See also

    * tundish

    Verb

  • To use a funnel.
  • To proceed through a narrow gap or passageway akin to a funnel; to narrow or condense.
    • Expect delays where the traffic funnels down to one lane.
  • * 2014, (Paul Salopek), Blessed. Cursed. Claimed. , National Geographic (December 2014)[http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text]
    • A line of clocks in our cheap hotel displays the time in Lagos, Bucharest, Kiev: the capitals of pilgrims who come to kneel at the birthplace of Christ. In reality the entire world funnels through the Church of the Nativity.
  • To direct (money or resources).
    • Our taxes are being funnelled into pointless government initiatives.

    Derived terms

    * refunnel

    concentrate

    English

    Verb

    (concentrat)
  • (ambitransitive) To bring to, or direct toward, a common center; to unite more closely; to gather into one body, mass, or force.
    • to concentrate rays of light into a focus
    to concentrate the attention
    Let me concentrate !
  • To increase the strength and diminish the bulk of, as of a liquid or an ore; to intensify, by getting rid of useless material; to condense (qualifier, as opposed to 'dilute').
    • to concentrate acid by evaporation
    to concentrate by washing
  • To approach or meet in a common center; to consolidate.
    • Population tends to concentrate in cities.
  • * {{quote-book, year=2006, author=
    • , title=Internal Combustion , chapter=2 citation , passage=Buried within the Mediterranean littoral are some seventy to ninety million tons of slag from ancient smelting, about a third of it concentrated in Iberia. This ceaseless industrial fueling caused the deforestation of an estimated fifty to seventy million acres of woodlands.}}
  • To focus one's thought or attention (on).

    • Derived terms

    * concentrated

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A substance that is in a condensed form.