English-Spanish translations for funnel

embudoSi se introduce un embudo en la garganta de una oca y se la alimenta a la fuerza con maíz, es imposible que no se le esté causando sufrimiento o daño. If you stick a funnel down a goose's throat and force-feed it with maize, there is no way that you are not causing suffering or injury. Y ya nadie es capaz de nada, porque, cuando tienen un efecto de embudo, ya no son capaces de pararlo... y no tienen ustedes ninguna posibilidad de plantear problemas políticos. No one can do anything any more because when you have a funnel effect you can no longer stop it ... and you have no way of raising political problems. Sin este objetivo, creo que Europa podría ser víctima de la «ley del embudo», es decir, del movimiento gravitatorio hacia el centro, tan alejado de las realidades locales. Without this objective, I feel that Europe would become ‘funnelled’, a victim of the gravitational movement towards a centre that is divorced from local realities.

A utensil in the shape of an inverted hollow cone terminating in a narrow pipe, for channeling liquids or granular material; typically used when transferring said substances from any container into ones with a significantly smaller opening
To use#Verb|use a funnel#Noun|funnel
To channel#Verb|channel, direct#Verb|direct, or focus#Verb|focus (emotions, money, resource#Noun|resources, etc
To consume rapidly through a funnel, typically as a stunt#Noun|stunt at a party#Noun|party

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