Funnel vs Panel - What's the difference?
funnel | panel |
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.
To use a funnel.
To proceed through a narrow gap or passageway akin to a funnel; to narrow or condense.
* 2014, (Paul Salopek), Blessed. Cursed. Claimed. , National Geographic (December 2014)[http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text]
To direct (money or resources).
A (usually) rectangular section of a surface, or of a covering or of a wall, fence etc.; (architecture) A sunken compartment with raised margins, moulded or otherwise, as in ceilings, wainscotings, etc.
A group of people gathered to judge, interview, discuss etc. as on a television or radio broadcast for example.
An individual frame or drawing in a comic.
(legal) A document containing the names of persons summoned as jurors by the sheriff; hence, more generally, the whole jury.
(legal, Scotland) A prisoner arraigned for trial at the bar of a criminal court.
(obsolete) A piece of cloth serving as a saddle.
A soft pad beneath a saddletree to prevent chafing.
(joinery) A board having its edges inserted in the groove of a surrounding frame.
(masonry) One of the faces of a hewn stone.
(masonry) A slab or plank of wood used instead of a canvas for painting on.
(mining) A heap of dressed ore.
(mining) One of the districts divided by pillars of extra size, into which a mine is laid off in one system of extracting coal.
(dressmaking) A plain strip or band, as of velvet or plush, placed at intervals lengthwise on the skirt of a dress, for ornament.
A portion of a framed structure between adjacent posts or struts, as in a bridge truss.
to fit with panels
As nouns the difference between funnel and panel
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 panel is panel.As a verb funnel
is to use a funnel.funnel
English
(wikipedia funnel)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* funnel box * funnel mark * funnel plot * funnel staySee also
* tundishVerb
- Expect delays where the traffic funnels down to one lane.
- 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.
- Our taxes are being funnelled into pointless government initiatives.
Derived terms
* refunnelpanel
English
Noun
(en noun)- Behind the picture was a panel on the wall.
- Today's panel includes John Smith.
- The last panel of a comic strip usually contains a punchline.
- (Blackstone)
- (Burrill)
- the panel of a door
- (Gwilt)