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tunnel | American Dictionary

tunnel
noun[ C ]
us/ˈtʌn·əl/
a long passage under or through the earth, esp. one made for vehicles:
The train entered the tunnel.
tunnel
verb[ I/T ]
us/ˈtʌn·əl/-l- | -ll-
to dig a tunnel:
[ I ]Earthworms digest organic matter as they tunnel.
[ T ]The people trapped in the collapsed building had to tunnel their way out.

Examples of tunnel

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Termites tunnelled slowly in the dry sand, but diverted their tunnelling into the wet sand once it had been discovered.
Both are usually estimated using data derived by scanning tunneling microscopy from different surface specimens.
The percentage of stem tunnelled, internodes bored and cobs damaged did not significantly vary among treatments in the insecticide-treated plots (table 5).
The arenas were typically explored to their edges after four days, with all solid objects and gaps interconnected with many tunnels.
Of course new food sources will be discovered and the laboratory studies of tunnelling behaviour may yield valuable insights into this process.
Extract-treated sand barriers deterred tunnelling completely for 2-4 days at the higher extract concentrations tested, although partial penetration was seen in succeeding days.
Dynamically controlled protein tunneling paths in photosynthetic reaction centers.
The rolling and tunnelling dung beetle species used in this study, were selected for their large size and/or abundance.
The three chambers were connected in series by two, 4 cm in diameter, tunnels which only permitted the adolescents to shuttle between the chambers.
The number of tunnels was determined as the number of points where termites were excavating.
We need to detect the nuclear products of the weak interaction if we are to search for resonant tunneling at low energy.
Physical models and simulators, such as wind tunnels, are also commonly used to analyze the behavior of designs when the mathematics required are formidable.
A good example is the use of wind tunnels to evaluate the aerodynamic proper ties of vehicles under various conditions.
The theory can be tested using wings with various cross-sections in wind tunnels.
The experimental apparatus was designed to mimic natural foraging tunnels of termites and to allow for rapid and simple sampling of feeding sites.
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access tunnel
There was no accesstunnel; the sphere had to be loaded and unloaded while on deck.
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