a funnel is a pipe with a wide, often conical mouth and a narrow stem. it is used to channel liquid or fine-grained substances into containers with a small opening. without a funnel, spillage would occur.
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Those who knew
what was going on here
must give way tothose who know little.And less than little.And finally as little as nothing.
The End and the Beginning - Wislawa Szymborska