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tunnel
  1. An underground or underwater passage.
  2. A passage through or under some obstacle.
  3. A hole in the ground made by an animal, a burrow.
  4. (computing) A wrapper for a protocol that cannot otherwise be used because it is unsupported, blocked, or insecure.
  5. 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.
  6. The opening of a chimney for the passage of smoke; a flue.
  7. (mining) 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.
  8. Synonyms:
  9. Examples:
    1. “As they moved into another tunnel, Haddad saw that it opened out into a space that could have been a bunkhouse or a storage supply.”
      “She was underground in a tunnel somewhere, the babes in her arms crying because they'd felt the last gasp of their mother.”
tunneling
  1. The act of burrowing a tunnel.
  2. The practice of exploring tunnel.
  3. (physics) The quantum mechanical passing of a particle through an energy barrier.
  4. (finance) A type of fraud where assets and profits are transferred out of firms for the benefit of those who control them.
  5. (computing) A feature of the file system that allows files to preserve certain properties, such as creation date, even after being deleted and recreated.
  6. Synonyms:
tunneler
  1. One who makes tunnels.
  2. A device for making tunnels.
  3. Examples:
    1. “He escaped execution as a spy and spent the rest of the war in Stalag Luft III, including spending time as a tunneler for the Great Escape.”
      “The SPBG was passed inside the tunneler until it was re-exposed through the abdmoninal incision.”
      “Yamada D, Imura O, Shi K, Shibuya T Effect of tunneler dung beetles on cattle dung decomposition, soil nutrients and herbage growth.”
tunnelball
  1. (game) A children's game in which players stand in line with their feet apart, making a tunnel with their legs, down which the lead player propels a ball back to the last player, who runs with it to the front of the line and repeats; played competitively between teams for speed, or by a single team for recreation or exercise.
tunnelling
  1. Alternative form of tunneling
tunneller
  1. One who tunnels.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Mr Wood said most of the damage was done in the 1970s when he was working as a coalface worker and tunneller.”
      “There is little question but that they were far superior to the German tunneller.”
      “The latter was often a cunning worker, but the British tunneller could always be relied on to beat him for pace.”
tunnelway
  1. A tunnel.
tunnellings
  1. plural of tunnelling
tunnelings
tunnellers
  1. plural of tunneller
tunnelways
  1. plural of tunnelway
tunnelers
  1. plural of tunneler
  2. Examples:
    1. “All moles are insectivores and all of them are great tunnelers.”
      “The tunnelers were all hard Irishmen, good workers on 12 hour shifts and well paid.”
      “The probe breakthrough confirmed that French and British tunnelers were within striking distance of completing the first tunnel under the English Channel.”
tunnels
  1. plural of tunnel
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The club, which trains up to 70 dogs on Sunday mornings, lost a range of equipment including see-saws, tyre tunnels, and A-frames.”
      “Many adits, shafts and tunnels, some extending over 100 m, pursue these veins deep underground.”
      “Fauna such as anemones, gorgonia and lace corals thrive in the caverns and tunnels of the Turkish Aegean and Mediterranean.”
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