Sekirov Dictionary

tunnel

/ˈtʌn(ə)l/

noun 8
verb 5
forms 5
phrases 3

noun8

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a long hole made under the ground or under water, through which people or vehicles can travel
- In 1865 an outfit called the East London Railway Company bought the Brunel tunnel for £800,000, and in 1869 they opened a railway through it. — 2012
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A passage through or under some obstacle.
- But very soon he grew to like it, for the Boy used to talk to him, and made nice tunnels for him under the bedclothes that he said were like the burrows the real rabbits lived in. — 1921
A level passage driven across the measures, or at right angles to veins which it is desired to reach; distinguished from the drift, or gangway, which is led along the vein when reached by the tunnel.
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(figurative) Anything that resembles a tunnel.
- Especially in the Eden Valley, trees create what is almost a green tunnel (particularly in summer). — 2021
A hole in the ground made by an animal, a burrow.
A wrapper for a protocol that cannot otherwise be used because it is unsupported, blocked, or insecure.
A vessel with a broad mouth at one end, a pipe or tube at the other, for conveying liquor, fluids, etc., into casks, bottles, or other vessels; a funnel.
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The opening of a chimney for the passage of smoke; a flue.
- And one great chimney, whose long tonnell thence, / The smoke forth threw — 1590

verb5

To make a tunnel through or under something; to burrow.
To dig a tunnel.
To undergo the quantum-mechanical phenomenon where a particle penetrates through a barrier that it classically cannot surmount.
To transmit something through a tunnel (wrapper for an insecure or unsupported protocol).
To insert a catheter into a vein to allow long-term use.

forms

tunneled · tunnelled · tunneling · tunnelling · tunnels

Phrases with tunnel

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