tunnel

== English == === Etymology === 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. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈtʌn(ə)l/ Rhymes: -ʌnəl Hyphenation: tun‧nel === Noun === tunnel (plural tunnels) An underground or underwater passage. A passage through or under some obstacle. A hole in the ground made by an animal, a burrow. (computing, networking) A wrapper for a protocol that cannot otherwise be used because it is unsupported, blocked, or insecure. 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. The opening of a chimney for the passage of smoke; a flue. (mining) 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. (figurative) Anything that resembles a tunnel. ==== Hyponyms ==== base tunnel running tunnel summit tunnel ==== Descendants ==== → Afrikaans: tonnel → Armenian: թունել (tʻunel) → Czech: tunel → Danish: tunnel → Dutch: tunnel → Finnish: tunneli → French: tunnelHaitian Creole: tinèl→ Armenian: թիւնէլ (tʻiwnēl)→ Ottoman Turkish: تونل (tünel), طونل (tünel)Turkish: tünel→ Romanian: tunel → German: Tunnel → Greek: τούνελ (toúnel) → Italian: tunnel → Japanese: トンネル → Korean: 터널 (teoneol) → Norwegian Bokmål: tunnel, tunell → Norwegian Nynorsk: tunnel, tunell → Polish: tunel → Portuguese: túnel → Russian: тунне́ль (tunnélʹ) → Kazakh: түнел (tünel) → Scottish Gaelic: tunail → Serbo-Croatian: tùnēl → Spanish: túnel → Swedish: tunnel → Uzbek: tunnel ==== Translations ==== === Verb === tunnel (third-person singular simple present tunnels, present participle (US) tunneling or (UK) tunnelling, simple past and past participle (US) tunneled or (UK) tunnelled) (transitive) To make a tunnel through or under something; to burrow. Synonym: undermine (intransitive) To dig a tunnel. (computing, networking) To transmit something through a tunnel (wrapper for an insecure or unsupported protocol). (transitive, medicine) To insert a catheter into a vein to allow long-term use. (physics) To undergo the quantum-mechanical phenomenon where a particle penetrates through a barrier that it classically cannot surmount. === Derived terms === === Further reading === tunnel on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Tunnel (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia === Anagrams === nunlet, unlent == Danish == === Etymology === Borrowed from English tunnel. === Noun === tunnel c (definite singular tunnelen or tunnellen, indefinite plural tunneler or tunneller, definite plural tunnelerne or tunnellerne) tunnel ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== tunnelsyn vindtunnel gangtunnel === References === “tunnel” in Den Danske Ordbog == Dutch == === Etymology === Borrowed from English tunnel, from Middle French tonnelle. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈtʏ.nəl/ Hyphenation: tun‧nel === Noun === tunnel m (plural tunnels, diminutive tunneltje n) tunnel ==== Derived terms ==== == French == === Etymology === English tunnel, itself a borrowing from French tonnelle; hence a reborrowing. Doublet of tonnelle. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ty.nɛl/ === Noun === tunnel m (plural tunnels) tunnel ==== Derived terms ==== voir le bout du tunnel ==== Descendants ==== Haitian Creole: tinèl → Armenian: թիւնէլ (tʻiwnēl) → Ottoman Turkish: تونل (tünel), طونل (tünel)Turkish: tünel → Romanian: tunel === Further reading === “tunnel”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012 == Italian == === Alternative forms === tunnelle tunnello === Etymology === From English tunnel. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈtun.nel/ Rhymes: -unnel Hyphenation: tùn‧nel === Noun === tunnel m (invariable) tunnel Synonyms: galleria, traforo, cunicolo (soccer) nutmeg == Norwegian Bokmål == === Alternative forms === tunell === Pronunciation === === Noun === tunnel m (definite singular tunnelen, indefinite plural tunneler, definite plural tunnelene) a tunnel (soccer) nutmeg ==== Derived terms ==== === References === “tunnel” in The Bokmål Dictionary. === Anagrams === lunnet, lunten == Norwegian Nynorsk == === Alternative forms === tunell === Etymology === From English tunnel, Middle French tonnelle (“net”) or tonel (“cask”), diminutive of Old French tonne (“cask”), a word of uncertain origin and affiliation. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /tʉˈnɛlː/, /²tʉnːɛl/ === Noun === tunnel m (definite singular tunnelen, indefinite plural tunnelar, definite plural tunnelane) a tunnel Synonyms: holgang, holveg, jordgang (soccer) nutmeg ==== Derived terms ==== === References === “tunnel” in The Nynorsk Dictionary. == Swedish == === Etymology === From English tunnel, from Middle French tonnelle (“net”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /²tɵnɛl/ === Noun === tunnel c tunnel An underground or underwater passage. A passage through or under some obstacle. A hole in the ground made by an animal, a burrow. ==== Declension ==== ==== Related terms ==== === References === “tunnel”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)