tunnel

Bedeutung (Englisch)

Noun

1. An underground or underwater passage.
2. A passage through or under some obstacle.
3. A hole in the ground made by an animal, a burrow.
4. A wrapper for a protocol that cannot otherwise be used because it is unsupported, blocked, or insecure.
5. 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.
6. The opening of a chimney for the passage of smoke; a flue.
7. 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.
8. (figuratively) Anything that resembles a tunnel.

Verb

1. (transitive) To make a tunnel through or under something; to burrow.
2. (intransitive) To dig a tunnel.
3. To transmit something through a tunnel (wrapper for an insecure or unsupported protocol).
4. (transitive) To insert a catheter into a vein to allow long-term use.
5. To undergo the quantum-mechanical phenomenon where a particle penetrates through a barrier that it classically cannot surmount.

Konzepte

Tunnel

Stollen

untertunneln

Strecke

Rachen

Schlund

Loch

🕳️

Öffnung

Schacht

Tiefe

Unterführung

wühlen

Tunnelbau

Minengang

Graben eines Tunnels

Eingang zu einer Höhle

Abgrund

Tunneleingang

Durchgang

Galerie

Gang

Höhle

Korridor

Synonyme

cave

hole

🕳️

subway

burrow

gallery

underground passage

cavern

mouth

passage

passageway

collector

corridor

muzzle

tube

grotto

abyss

canal

hall

mine

maw

jaws

warren

cave entrance

utilidor

deep hole

walk-through

adit

aisle

alley

alleyway

below ground

chasm

den

divide

drift

duct

excavation

gangway

gulf

hallway

level

meatus

opening

ravine

shelter

underpass

Übersetzungen

tunnel

túnel

tunnel

galleria

tunnel

σήραγγα

túnel

tünel

τούνελ

túnel

υπόγειος δρόμος

نفق

cunicolo

دهلي

Ausgesprochen als (IPA)

/ˈtʌn(ə)l/

Etymologie (Englisch)

Verwandt mit Altenglisch: tunne

In summary

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.