tunnel
tunnel is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 5 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.The opening of a chimney for the passage of smoke; a flue; a funnel. And one great chimney, whose long tunnel thence The smoke forth threw. Spenser.
- 2.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.
- 3.(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. Tunnel head (Metal.), the top of a smelting furnace where the materials are put in. -- Tunnel kiln, a limekiln in which coal is burned, as distinguished from a flame kiln, in which wood or peat is used. -- Tunnel net, a net with a wide mouth at one end and narrow at the other. -- Tunnel pit, Tunnel shaft, a pit or shaft sunk from the top of the ground to the level of a tunnel, for drawing up the earth and stones, for ventilation, lighting, and the like.
- 4.To form into a tunnel, or funnel, or to form like a tunnel; as, to tunnel fibrous plants into nests. Derham. 2 2 To catch in a tunnel net.
- 5.To make an opening, or a passageway, through or under; as, to tunnel a mountain; to tunnel a river.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- affiance
- air
- airy
- anchor
- anticipation
- aspiration
- assumption
- assurance
- balm
- beam
- belief
- bit
- blue
- bottom
- box
- bright
- buoyancy
- cheer
- clear
- cloud
- confidence
- dawn
- day
- desire
- dream
- end
- enthusiasm
- expectation
- faith
- fervent
- flash
- fond
- gleam
- glimmer
- golden
- good
- grace
- heart
- heaven
- hope
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
Related questions
Reverse-dictionary questions
Definition-first questions whose answer is tunnel.
- What is the opening of a chimney for the passage of smoke; a flue; a funnel. And one great chimney, whose long tunnel thence The smoke forth threw. Spenser called?
- What is 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 called?
- What is to form into a tunnel, or funnel, or to form like a tunnel; as, to tunnel fibrous plants into nests. Derham. 2 2 To catch in a tunnel net called?
- What is to make an opening, or a passageway, through or under; as, to tunnel a mountain; to tunnel a river called?
Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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