Meaning of tunnel | Babel Free

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1. A locality in the City of Launceston, northern Tasmania, Australia.
2. An underground or underwater passage
3. A passage through or under some obstacle
4. A passage through or under some obstacle.
5. To make a tunnel.
6. A hole in the ground made by an animal, a burrow
7. A hole in the ground made by an animal, a burrow.
8. a (usually man-made) underground passage, especially one cut through a hill or under a river. The road goes through a tunnel under the river. tonnel نَفَق тунел túnel tunel der Tunnel tunnel σήραγγαtúnel tunnel تونل tunneli tunnelמנהרה सुरंग tunel, podzemni hodnik alagút terowongan jarðgöng tunnel トンネル 터널 tunelis tunelis; eja terowong tunneltunneltunel تونل túnel tunel тоннель tunel tunel tunel tunnel อุโมงค์ tünel 隧道 тунель; підземний хід سرنگ đường hầm 隧道
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9. A wrapper for a protocol that cannot otherwise be used because it is unsupported, blocked, or insecure
10. A wrapper for a protocol that cannot otherwise be used because it is unsupported, blocked, or insecure.
11. to make a tunnel. They escaped from prison by tunnelling under the walls. tonnel, grawe يَحْفُر نَفَقاً تَحْت الجُدْران прокарвам тунел construir um túnel vykopat tunel untertunneln grave sig igennem ανοίγω σήραγγα excavar un túnel tunnelit tegema, käiku uuristama تونل حفر کردن kaivaa tunneli creuser un tunnel לַחפּוֹר מִנהָרָה सुरंग खोदना probijati tunel alagutat fúr membuat terowongan grafa jarðgöng (scavare un tunnel) トンネルを掘る 터널을 파다 ið(si)kasti tunelá izrakt tuneli/eju membuat terowong een...
12. 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
13. 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.
14. túnel, canal o conducto estrecho;carpal ___ → ___ del carpo;
15. The opening of a chimney for the passage of smoke; a flue.
16. An underground or underwater passage.
17. 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.
18. A passage through or under a barrier such as a mountain.
19. Anything that resembles a tunnel.
    figuratively
20. A tube-shaped structure.
21. To make a tunnel through or under: tunneling the granite.
22. To produce, shape, or dig in the form of a tunnel: tunnel a passageway out of prison.
23. (Civil Engineering) an underground passageway, esp one for trains or cars that passes under a mountain, river, or a congested urban area

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Examples

“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.”

“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.”

“Tunnels often feature in fictional journeys, so I will end with quotations from a fairly recent novel, Howard Spring's "Fame is the Spur", published in 1940, in which there is a journey from Manchester to Bradford via the Calder Valley route: "Ay, we're going through Todmorden. We'll soon be in t' tunnel, and when we get to t' other end we'll be in Yorkshire," and "Ah think this is t' filthiest tunnel in t' world."”

“There are more than 1,500 railway tunnels in Britain and the majority are still in use, carrying working tracks beneath Britain's most inconvenient geographic features.”

“And one great chimney, whose long tonnell thence, / The smoke forth threw”

“Especially in the Eden Valley, trees create what is almost a green tunnel (particularly in summer).”

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