意味一覧 (2件)
じょうご
解説 Definition
広い受け口と細い管を持つ「じょうご」を指す名詞。瓶への詰め替え、実験器具への注入、給油など、小さな口に液体や粉をこぼさず移すための具体的な道具として使われます。
A funnel is a tool with a wide open top and a narrow tube at the bottom. It is used to pour liquid or powder into a container with a small opening without spilling it. People often use a funnel in the kitchen, in science experiments, or when adding fuel to a machine.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
funnel は「上で受けて、下の細い口へ落とす器具」と形で覚えると定着しやすい。kitchen funnel なら料理や保存瓶、laboratory funnel なら実験、fuel funnel なら給油の場面が典型。cone は形そのものを言う語だが、funnel は中を通して移す機能まで含む。物理的な形から、後に sales funnel のような比喩にも広がった。
Picture the shape first: wide at the top, narrow at the bottom, helping things fall neatly into a small opening. A kitchen funnel is used for sauces or oil, a laboratory funnel for experiments, and a fuel funnel for pouring into a tank. Cone only describes the shape, but funnel also includes the job of guiding something through it.
例文
Use a funnel to pour the oil into the bottle without making a mess.
こぼさずに油をびんへ注ぐには、じょうごを使ってください。
The teacher put a funnel over the flask before adding the blue liquid.
先生は青い液体を入れる前に、フラスコの上にじょうごを置いた。
Keep a small funnel in the car so you can refill the fluid more easily.
液体を補充しやすいように、車に小さなじょうごを入れておくとよい。
漏斗で注ぎ込む、誘導する
(意味 2)解説 Definition
名詞の「じょうご」から派生した動詞で、液体・粉などを狭い口へ注ぎ込むことを表す。さらに、人・資金・情報・交通などを広い範囲から特定の場所や経路へ集めて送り込む意味でも使われます。
To funnel something means to direct it through a narrow path or into one place. It is often used for moving money, information, people, or resources toward a particular destination. The word can be literal or figurative, and it suggests controlled movement from a wider source into a smaller channel.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
動詞 funnel は「散らばったものを入口で受け、出口を絞って目的地へ流す」と考えるとよい。funnel oil into a bottle は物理的な注入、funnel customers toward checkout や funnel money into a project は誘導・集中の比喩。direct よりも、流れを設計して一方向に集約する感じが強い。形は funnel A into B / through B で覚える。
Picture a real `funnel`: wide at the top, narrow at the bottom. As a verb, `funnel` means moving things from a broad area into one narrow path or target. It is more specific than `pour` because the idea of directing and narrowing is important, as in `funnel money into` or `funnel people through`.
例文
Please funnel the oil into the small bottle carefully.
油を小さなボトルに、漏斗で慎重に注ぎ込んでください。
The website funnels customers toward the checkout page.
そのウェブサイトは利用者を購入手続きのページへ誘導する。
Volunteers funneled supplies into the shelters after the storm.
暴風雨の後、ボランティアたちは支援物資を避難所へ集中的に送り込んだ。
funnel の語源・成り立ち Etymology
古フランス語 founel を経て、後期ラテン語 infundibulum「注ぎ入れる道具」に由来する。in-「中へ」+ fundere「注ぐ」が核で、狭い口へ流し込む道具の意味になった。
Funnel came through Old French founel from Late Latin infundibulum, which meant a tool for pouring into something. The key idea comes from in- meaning "into" and fundere meaning "to pour," so the word developed the meaning of a tool that guides liquid into a narrow opening.
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