Definition of Tunnel

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Tunnel

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; a funnel.

An artificial passage or archway for conducting canals or railroads under elevated ground, for the formation of roads under rivers or canals, and the construction of sewers, drains, and the like.

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.

To form into a tunnel, or funnel, or to form like a tunnel; as, to tunnel fibrous plants into nests.

To catch in a tunnel net.

To make an opening, or a passageway, through or under; as, to tunnel a mountain; to tunnel a river.

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Tunnel Quotations

When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don't throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.
Corrie Ten Boom

Sometimes that light at the end of the tunnel is a train.
Charles Barkley

The light you see at the end of the tunnel is the front of an oncoming train.
David Lee Roth

There is a light at the end of the tunnel... hopefully its not a freight train!
Mariah Carey

She had a penetrating sort of laugh. Rather like a train going into a tunnel.
P. G. Wodehouse

It was like I was in a tunnel. Not only the tunnel under the hotel but the whole circuit was a tunnel. I was just going and going, more and more and more and more. I was way over the limit but still able to find even more.
Ayrton Senna

Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
Ian Botham

There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over.
Navjot Singh Sidhu

Some actors couldn't figure out how to withstand the constant rejection. They couldn't see the light at the end of the tunnel.
Harrison Ford

Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years.
Graham Greene

Tunnel Translations

tunnel in Dutch is tunnel
tunnel in Finnish is tunneli
tunnel in French is tunnel
tunnel in German is Tunnel
tunnel in Italian is galleria
tunnel in Swedish is tunnel

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