tunnel

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An underground or underwater passage.
    — In 1865 an outfit called the East London Railway Company bought the Brunel tunnel for £800,000, and in 1869 they opened a railway through it.
  2. A passage through or under some obstacle.
    — But very soon he grew to like it, for the Boy used to talk to him, and made nice tunnels for him under the bedclothes that he said were like the burrows the real rabbits lived in.
  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.
    — And one great chimney, whose long tonnell thence, / The smoke forth threw
  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. figuratively
    — Especially in the Eden Valley, trees create what is almost a green tunnel (particularly in summer).
动词 v.
  1. To make a tunnel through or under something; to burrow. transitive
    — The 1955 Act gave powers for compulsory acquisition of "easements", or permission to tunnel beneath dwelling houses instead of, as had previously been necessary, following approximately the course of surface roads.
  2. To dig a tunnel. intransitive
  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. transitive
  5. To undergo the quantum-mechanical phenomenon where a particle penetrates through a barrier that it classically cannot surmount.

词形变化

tunnels plural tunnels present,singular,third-person tunneling US,participle,present tunnelling UK,participle,present tunneled US,participle,past tunneled US,past tunnelled UK,participle,past tunnelled UK,past

词汇关系

下位词
base tunnel running tunnel summit tunnel
衍生词
asstunnel Chunnel Eurotunnel intertunnel intratunnel microtunnel nanotunnel subtunnel tunnelable tunnelball tunnelful tunnelist tunnellike tunnelly tunnelway air tunnel bridge-and-tunnel bridge and tunnel carpal tunnel carpal tunnel syndrome Channel Tunnel cross-tunnel ear tunnel flesh tunnel fudge tunnel high tunnel light at the end of the tunnel love tunnel quantum tunnel radial tunnel syndrome screech tunnel Severn Tunnel Junction snake in the tunnel steam tunnel sun tunnel tarsal tunnel syndrome time tunnel Toblerone tunnel tree tunnel tunnel book tunnel boring machine tunnel broker Tunnel City tunnel diode tunnel disease tunnel head tunnel kiln tunneller tunnel net tunnel of love tunnel plug tunnel ram tunnel rat tunnel running tunnel stern tunnel vision tunnel-visioned water tunnel wind tunnel

词源

词源 1
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.
词源 2
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.
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