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A locality in the City of Launceston, northern Tasmania, Australia.
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noun
An underground or underwater passage.
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A passage through or under some obstacle.
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A hole in the ground made by an animal, a burrow.
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noun
A wrapper for a protocol that cannot otherwise be used because it is unsupported, blocked, or insecure.
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Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, networking, physical-sciences, sciences
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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.
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noun
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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Topics: business, mining
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noun
Anything that resembles a tunnel.
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Usage: figuratively
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verb
To make a tunnel through or under something; to burrow.
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Usage: transitive
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Synonyms: undermine
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verb
To dig a tunnel.
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Usage: intransitive
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verb
To transmit something through a tunnel (wrapper for an insecure or unsupported protocol).
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To insert a catheter into a vein to allow long-term use.
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Usage: transitive
Topics: medicine, sciences
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verb
To undergo the quantum-mechanical phenomenon where a particle penetrates through a barrier that it classically cannot surmount.
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Topics: natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics
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noun
a passageway through or under something, usually underground (especially one for trains or cars)
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Broader terms: passageway
Narrower terms: catacomb, railroad tunnel, underpass, subway
noun
a hole made by an animal, usually for shelter
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Synonyms: burrow
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Broader terms: hole, hollow
Narrower terms: warren, rabbit warren
verb
force a way through
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Broader terms: penetrate, perforate
verb
move through by or as by digging
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Synonyms: burrow
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Broader terms: dig, delve, cut into, turn over
History
From Middle French tonnelle (“net”) or tonel (“cask”), diminutive of Old French tonne (“cask”), a word of uncertain origin and affiliation. Related to Old English tunne (“tun; cask; barrel”). More at tun.
Across languages
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