Tunneling - English meaning

Tunneling – definitions in English dictionary

verb
Dig or force a passage underground or through something.
Usage examples:
He tunnelled under the fence
Synonims:
DigDig one's wayBurrowExcavateMineBoreDrill
verb
(of a particle) pass through a potential barrier.
Usage examples:
By making the particles interact, they approximated quantum tunneling - a phenomenon forbidden by c…

noun
An artificial underground passage, especially one built through a hill or under a building, road, or river.
Usage examples:
A road tunnel through the pyrenees

noun
A long, half-cylindrical enclosure used to protect plants, made of clear plastic stretched over hoops.
Usage examples:
Cover plants in rows with a cloche tunnel

Tunneling translation into English

Tunneling: translate from English into Chinese

隧道

Tunneling: translate from English into Dutch

Tunnelen

Tunneling: translate from English into French

Creuser un tunnel

Tunneling: translate from English into German

Tunnelbau

Tunneling: translate from English into Hindi

सुरंग, सुरंगन, टनेलन

Tunneling: translate from English into Italian

Tunneling, Traforo

Tunneling: translate from English into Korean

터널링

Tunneling: translate from English into Russian

Туннелирование

Tunneling: translate from English into Spanish

Tunelización

Word origin

late Middle English (in the senses ‘tunnel-shaped net’ and ‘flue of a chimney’): from Old French tonel, diminutive of tonne ‘cask’. tunnel (sense 1 of the noun) dates from the mid 18th centur

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Tunneling – similar words

tunnelers

noun
Someone that digs a tunnel (= a long passage under or through the ground)
Usage examples:
Tunnelers have worked under pressure before, but never in such unstable ground conditions., the tun…

Tunnelers - all meanings in English

tunneler

noun
Someone that digs a tunnel (= a long passage under or through the ground)
Usage examples:
Tunnelers have worked under pressure before, but never in such unstable ground conditions., the tun…

Tunneler - all meanings in English

tunneled

verb
Dig or force a passage underground or through something.
Usage examples:
He tunnelled under the fence

noun
An artificial underground passage, especially one built through a hill or under a building, road, or river.
Usage examples:
A road tunnel through the pyrenees

noun
A long, half-cylindrical enclosure used to protect plants, made of clear plastic stretched over hoops.
Usage examples:
Cover plants in rows with a cloche tunnel

Tunneled - all meanings in English

tunnel

noun
An artificial underground passage, especially one built through a hill or under a building, road, or river.
Usage examples:
A road tunnel through the pyrenees

verb
Short for wind tunnel.

Tunnel - all meanings in English

Tunneling synonims

bore

bɛː

verb
Make (a hole) in something with a tool or by digging.
Usage examples:
Bore a hole in the wall to pass the cable through

noun
The hollow part inside a gun barrel or other tube.
Usage examples:
Barrels have ventilated ribs, hard-chromed bores, interchangeable choke tubes (three provided) and …

verb
Cause (someone) to feel weary and uninterested by dull talk or behaviour.
Usage examples:
She is too polite to bore us with anecdotes

Bore - all meanings in English

burrow

ˈbʌr.əʊ

noun
A hole or tunnel dug by a small animal, especially a rabbit, as a dwelling.
Usage examples:
Spheniscus species generally use unlined nests in burrows, crevices, caves, or surface scrapes.

verb
(of an animal) make a hole or tunnel, typically for use as a dwelling.
Usage examples:
Moles burrowing away underground

noun
A hole in the ground dug by an animal such as a rabbit, especially to live in

Burrow - all meanings in English

dig

dɪɡ

verb
Break up and move earth with a tool or machine, or with hands, paws, snout, etc.
Usage examples:
The boar had been digging for roots

noun
An act or spell of digging.
Usage examples:
A thorough dig of the whole plot

verb
Turn up, loosen, or remove earth

Dig - all meanings in English

drill

drɪl

noun
A tool or machine with a rotating cutting tip or reciprocating hammer or chisel, used for making holes.
Usage examples:
Most of the project requires basic wood-working tools - a circular saw, a saber saw, an electric dr…

verb
Produce (a hole) in something by or as if by boring with a drill.
Usage examples:
Drill holes through the tiles for the masonry pins

verb
Sow (seed) with a drill.
Usage examples:
Crops drilled in autumn

Drill - all meanings in English

excavate

ˈek.skə.veɪt

verb
Make (a hole or channel) by digging.
Usage examples:
The cheapest way of doing this was to excavate a long trench

verb
To dig a hole or channel in the ground, or to make a hole or channel by removing earth
Usage examples:
[ i ] we’ll be excavating here for the foundation of the building., [ t ] archaeologists are excava…

verb
To remove earth that is covering very old objects buried in the ground in order to discover things about the past
Usage examples:
Ice age bones are being excavated in the caves.

Excavate - all meanings in English

mine

noun
An excavation in the earth for extracting coal or other minerals.
Usage examples:
A copper mine

verb
Obtain (coal or other minerals) from a mine.
Usage examples:
The company came to the area to mine phosphate

possessive pronoun
Used to refer to a thing or things belonging to or associated with the speaker.
Usage examples:
You go your way and i'll go mine

Mine - all meanings in English

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