Tunnel

Quick meaning: Tunnel is a noun meaning An underground or underwater passage.

Meaning

An underground or underwater passage.

More Meanings

1. A passage through or under some obstacle.
2. A hole in the ground made by an animal, a burrow.
3. (computing, networking) A wrapper for a protocol that cannot otherwise be used because it is unsupported, blocked, or insecure.
4. The opening of a chimney for the passage of smoke; a flue.
5. (figurative) Anything that resembles a tunnel.
6. 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.
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.

Example Sentences

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).

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.

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.

Word Forms

• tunnels
• tunneling
• tunnelling
• tunneled
• tunnelled

Synonyms for tunnel

Depending on context, synonyms include undermine, burrow.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include burrow, underground, hole, dig, gate, passageway.

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