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Uncommontunnel
The correct spelling is tunnel.
How to pronounce tunnel
/ˈtʌn(ə)l/
nounIPA: /ˈtʌn(ə)l/
Say it like: Tun-nel
The correct spelling is tunnel. An underground or underwater passage.
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Meanings
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.
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 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.
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