Word: Tunnel
How to pronounce: tʌnl
Noun
Definitions:
1. An artificial underground passage, especially one built through a hill or under a building, road, or river.
Example sentences: "New roads and tunnels have been built and public transport modernised."
Verb
Definitions:
1. Dig or force a passage underground or through something.
Example sentences: "He tunneled under the fence"
2. (of a particle) pass through a potential barrier.
Example sentences: "By making the particles interact, they approximated quantum tunneling - a phenomenon forbidden by classical mechanics."
Synonyms:
underpass
underpasses
adit
tube
tunnels
Derivations:
tunneling
tunnelled
tunneled
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Tunnel in Other Languages...
Spanish: Tunel
German: Tunnel
French: Tunnel
Italian: Tunnel
Turkish: Tünel
