TUNNEL
\tˈʌnə͡l], \tˈʌnəl], \t_ˈʌ_n_əl]\
Definitions of TUNNEL
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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a passageway through or under something, usually underground (especially one for trains or cars); "the tunnel reduced congestion at that intersection"
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force a way through
By Princeton University
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a passageway through or under something, usually underground (especially one for trains or cars); "the tunnel reduced congestion at that intersection"
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force a way through
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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; a funnel.
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An artificial passage or archway for conducting canals or railroads under elevated ground, for the formation of roads under rivers or canals, and the construction of sewers, drains, and the like.
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To form into a tunnel, or funnel, or to form like a tunnel; as, to tunnel fibrous plants into nests.
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To catch in a tunnel net.
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To make an opening, or a passageway, through or under; as, to tunnel a mountain; to tunnel a river.
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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.
By Oddity Software
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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; a funnel.
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An artificial passage or archway for conducting canals or railroads under elevated ground, for the formation of roads under rivers or canals, and the construction of sewers, drains, and the like.
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To form into a tunnel, or funnel, or to form like a tunnel; as, to tunnel fibrous plants into nests.
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To catch in a tunnel net.
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To make an opening, or a passageway, through or under; as, to tunnel a mountain; to tunnel a river.
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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.
By Noah Webster.
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An underground passage cut through a hill or under a river; as, a railroad tunnel; the shaft of a chimney.
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To form an underground passage through or under; as, to tunnel a rock, hill, or river.
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To make a tunnel.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A passage cut through a hill or under a river, etc.
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To make a passage through: to hollow out:-pr.p. tunnelling; pa.t. and pa.p. tunnelled.
By Daniel Lyons
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Pipe for pouring liquors into bottles; funnel; artificial underground passage.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To make a tunnel (through).
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An artificial subterranean passageway.
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A funnel; a flue.
By James Champlin Fernald
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n. [Anglo-Saxon, French] A funnel; –a vessel with a broad mouth at one end, and a pipe or tube at the other, for conveying liquor into casks, bottles, or other vessels; –a flue for the passage of smoke; –an arched drain or sewer; –an arched subterranean passage or excavation through a hill or under a town or river, to carry a canal, road, or railway in a direct course.
