Tunnels - English meaning

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

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

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

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

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.

noun

A room or building for the display or sale of works of art.

Usage examples:

An art gallery

noun

A room or building that is used for showing or selling works of art

Usage examples:

There are some contemporary art galleries you should visit.

noun

A room or building that is used for showing works of art, sometimes so that they can be sold

Usage examples:

The national portrait gallery, art gallery a contemporary art gallery

noun

A hollow place in a solid body or surface.

Usage examples:

The dog had dug a hole in the ground

verb

Make a hole or holes in.

Usage examples:

A fuel tank was holed by the attack and a fire started

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

noun

The fluid which circulates in the vascular system of a plant, consisting chiefly of water with dissolved sugars and mineral salts.

Usage examples:

Create a living smorgasbord that includes plants with berries, foliage, fruit, nectar, nuts, pollen…

verb

Gradually weaken or destroy (a person's strength or power).

Usage examples:

Our energy is being sapped by bureaucrats and politicians

verb

Dig a sap or saps.

Usage examples:

Having sapped up to the glacis of the city ramparts, versaillais troops entered the city

noun

A long, narrow part or section forming the handle of a tool or club, the body of a spear or arrow, or similar.

Usage examples:

The shaft of a golf club

verb

(of light) shine in beams.

Usage examples:

Brilliant sunshine shafted through the skylight

noun

A tunnel under a road for use by pedestrians.

Usage examples:

According to the 1996 highway road humps regulations they must not be built on or within 25 metres …

noun

An underground, electric railroad in a city

Usage examples:

Take the subway to times square.

noun

A road or pedestrian tunnel passing under a road or railway.

Usage examples:

A subway is a pedestrian underpass, generally under a road.

noun

A passage that goes under something such as a busy road, allowing people or vehicles to go from one side to the other