tunnel

Significado (Inglés)

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. Anything that resembles a tunnel.

Verb

1. To make a tunnel through or under something; to burrow.
2. To dig a tunnel.
3. To transmit something through a tunnel (wrapper for an insecure or unsupported protocol).
4. 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.

Conceptos

túnel

fauces

socavón

abismo

despeñadero

precipicio

tunel

abertura

agujero

boquete

cavidad

hoyo

hueco

orificio

cavar

excavar

madriguera

pasadizo

pasillo

túneles

Con guión como

tun‧nel

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈtʌn(ə)l/

Etimología (Inglés)

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.