tunnel
Meaning of tunnel
noun
- an artificial underground passage, especially one built through a hill or under a building, road, or river.
a road tunnel through the Pyrenees
the Mersey tunnel
the tunnel mouth
- short for wind tunnel.
- a long, half-cylindrical enclosure used to protect plants, made of clear plastic stretched over hoops.
cover plants in rows with a cloche tunnel
- dig or force a passage underground or through something.
he tunnelled under the fence
the insect tunnels its way out of the plant
- (of a particle) pass through a potential barrier.
late Middle English (in the senses ‘tunnel-shaped net’ and ‘flue of a chimney’): from Old French tonel, diminutive of tonne ‘cask’. tunnel (sense 1 of the noun) dates from the mid 18th century.
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- The plural form of tunnel is: tunnels.
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Hyphenation of tunnel
tun-nel
- It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
- tunnel is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
tunnel synonyms
Meaning burrow:
Meaning a road or pedestrian tunnel passing under a road or railway:
Meaning a hollow place in a solid body or surface:
Meaning a long, narrow, typically vertical hole that gives access to a mine, accommodates a lift in a building, or provides ventilation:
Meaning a room or building for the display or sale of works of art:
Meaning a tunnel under a road for use by pedestrians:
Meaning used to refer to a thing or things belonging to or associated with the speaker:
Meaning the fluid which circulates in the vascular system of a plant, consisting chiefly of water with dissolved sugars and mineral salts:
Meaning make (a hole, grave, etc.) by breaking up and moving earth:
Meaning make (a hole or channel) by digging:
Meaning make (a hole) in something with a tool or by digging:
Meaning produce (a hole) in something by or as if by boring with a drill:
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Words that rhyme with tunnel
Channel, Dannel, Jannel, beflannel, cannel, channel, crannel, empannel, enchannel, fannel, flannel, impannel, interchannel, midchannel, mischannel, multichannel, overchannel, pannel, rannel, rechannel, scrannel, semichannel, spannel, stannel, subchannel, transchannel, underflannel, unpannel, upchannel, wannel, bennel, dogfennel, enkennel, fennel, gennel, kennel, skipkennel, unkennel, vennel, ginnel, pinnel, spinnel, whinnel, winnel, Connel, McConnel, antipersonnel, personnel, ronnel, Chunnel
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