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tun·nel
/ ˈtənl/
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n.
an artificial underground passage, esp. one built through a hill or under a building, road, or river.
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an underground passage dug by a burrowing animal.
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[in sing.]
a passage in a sports stadium by which players enter or leave the field.
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v.
(-neled, -nel·ing; Brit. -nelled
, -nel·ling
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1. [intr.]
dig or force a passage underground or through something:
he tunneled under the fence |
(tunnel one's way)
the insect tunnels its way out of the plant.
2.
[intr.] Physics
(of a particle) pass through a potential barrier.
PHRASES:
light at the end of the tunnelsee light1 .DERIVATIVES:
tun·nel·er n.
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TUNNELS SAFE, BUT NOT INDESTRUCTIBLE STRUCTURES WERE BUILT TO WITHSTAND QUAKES, SINKINGS, CATASTROPHES.(FRONT)
Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot; 11/18/2001; 700+ words
; ...gravest threat to the tunnels. The objective is...in the Caldecott Tunnel near Oakland, Calif...killed, and the tunnel incurred major damage...banned from local tunnels, though it's unlikely...checks by bridge-tunnel officers. Thousands...drivers use the five tunnels every day to ...
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Intriguing tunnels lurk beneath Wesleyan U. campus
News Wire article from: University Wire; 6/7/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...interesting how the tunnels reflect the buildings...said E '07, a tunnel explorer who keeps a...to hide. H '08, a tunnel explorer whose father explored the tunnels in the 70s, has attended three tunnel parties, including...
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Tunnel Backers Given New Hope; May 2008 Deadline Offers Enough Time To Switch Tysons Plans, Advocates Say
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 2/7/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...its decision from an elevated track to a tunnel. The officials' statements, at a Federal...the delays involved in switching to a tunnel could throw the $4 billion project out...fall in his decision not to support a tunnel. But top federal transit officials...
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A86 West tunnels -- an emphasis on safety.(analysis of the construction Paris' outer relief road)
Magazine article from: World Tunnelling; 10/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...provided by two tunnels which will tunnel under the western...while the western tunnel will provide a two...of vehicle. The tunnels are being constructed...which the A86 West tunnels underlies includes...traffic flows. The tunnel solution was chosen...
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Tunnels open on to a secret labyrinth.(News)
Newspaper article from: Daily Post (Liverpool, England); 4/11/2002; 700+ words
; ...pointless maze of tunnels as a way of keeping...only a double tunnel had been uncovered...discovered large tunnels coming off from the triple tunnel, the three arches...of the Williamson Tunnels, comprising the double tunnel, museum and restaurant...
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Tunnel of love
Magazine article from: The Village Voice; 5/7/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...eponymously called City Water Tunnel #3, that opens tomorrow night...whose brother died building tunnel #3. Slipping into an East...robbed by years of blasting tunnels through the earth. "One of...have died building City Water Tunnel #3, and the dozens more maimed...
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Tunnel vision: Crossing the Bay.
Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot; 3/12/2009; 700+ words
; ...islands and two tunnels, it is the world...largest bridge-tunnel complex and also...over one of the tunnels. Most anglers...around the bridge-tunnel. On the few nighttime...islands and two tunnels, the Chesapeake Bay-Bridge Tunnel is the world...
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TUNNEL VISION
Newspaper article from: Roanoke Times & World News; 3/13/2005; ; 700+ words
; From tunnel darkness beyond the flashlights...into the abandoned railroad tunnel, a 19th-century engineering...excavation revealed that the tunnels mated nearly perfectly, being...designated Crozet's Blue Ridge Tunnel a Historic Civil Engineering...
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Tunnel Visionary.(Holland Tunnel engineer Clifford Holland)
Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report; 6/30/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...all that railway tunnels used--would not be enough to keep the tunnel safe. So Holland...s newer subway tunnels. "It took a lot...Building the tunnel's two tubes was...being convinced that tunnels are the only refuge...hearer sees in a tunnel all the allurement...
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Tunnel vision: Crossing the Bay Tunnel vision: Crossing the Bay.
Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot; 3/20/2009; 700+ words
; ...islands and two tunnels, it is the world's largest bridge-tunnel complex and also...islands and two tunnels, the Chesapeake Bay-Bridge Tunnel is the world...islands and two tunnels, the Chesapeake Bay-Bridge Tunnel is the world...
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tunnel
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...precision. Significant Historic and Modern Tunnels The origin of tunnel building is disputed. The Egyptians...mi (168 km) the longest continuous tunnel in the world. Road tunnels include the Holland Tunnel and the Lincoln Tunnel, which connect...
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Tunnel
Book article from: How Products Are Made
...the most anticipated tunnels was the Channel Tunnel. Completed in 1994...mi (50-km) long tunnels (two one-way and one service tunnel). Twenty-three miles (37 km) of this tunnel are underwater. History Tunnels were hand-dug by...
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tunnels
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Earth
...mile of a Channel tunnel in the late 1800s...Preformed linings for tunnels were first developed...place. The Channel Tunnel, with 102 km of main tunnels and 51 km of service tunnels, achieved progress...400m a week on each tunnel face. Rates will...
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Tunnels
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...The earliest such tunnels in the United States...shortly followed by the tunnel of the Union Canal...first U.S. railway tunnel was probably that...Until 1866 all tunnels had to be laboriously...fifteen years. The tunnel eventually became...longest of all the tunnels underlying ...
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Berlin Tunnel
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Espionage, Intelligence, and Security
Berlin Tunnel █ CARYN E. NEUMANN The Berlin Tunnel involved an attempt by American and British intelligence...tapping Soviet and East German communication cables via a tunnel dug below the communist sector of the German city. The...
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