Word Finder - tunnel

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An underground or underwater passage.

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A passage through or under some obstacle.

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A hole in the ground made by an animal, a burrow.

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A wrapper for a protocol that cannot otherwise be used because it is unsupported, blocked, or insecure.

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A vessel with a broad mouth at one end, a pipe or tube at the other, for conveying liquor, fluids, etc., into casks, bottles, or other vessels; a funnel.

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The opening of a chimney for the passage of smoke; a flue.

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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.

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To make a tunnel through or under something; to burrow.

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To dig a tunnel.

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To transmit something through a tunnel (wrapper for insecure or unsupported protocol).

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To insert a catheter into a vein to allow long-term use.

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To undergo the quantum-mechanical phenomenon where a particle penetrates through a barrier that it classically cannot surmount.

There's a tunnel under here.

The tunnel vision receded.

A pulse of warmth dispelled the tunnel vision that had begun to form.

The darkness immediately engulfed them and they paused a dozen baby steps into the tunnel to allow their eyes to become accustomed to the blackness.

The tunnel elbowed around yet another corner.

Another tunnel has been added to the system, under Washington Street.

The underground tunnel led through several other chambers.

Two soldiers stood near the tunnel entrance nearby, weapons raised.

The second sucked the strength out of her body and brought tunnel vision.

These boys have tunnel vision, you're at the end of the dark and the train's on time.

Brady reached the intersection and saw the tunnel running perpendicular opened into a crowded underground city.

A sort of inclined tunnel led upward for a way, and they found the floor of it both rough and steep.

He might not have known whose trail out of the tunnel he was sabotaging—just some trespasser in his precious mine.

The tunnel grew narrower as they moved away from the chambers.

At last, the tunnel sloped upward and dead-ended at a thick metal door.

He continued to grope his way forward until the first turn in the tunnel closed off what little light spilled in from the entrance.

In the wash of the hand torch, the tunnel opened up before them.

The main line of the Orleans railway passes through a tunnel beneath the town.

The door to the underground tunnel network was hidden behind a boulder and draped with moss.

Development of these lines has been primarily an extension from the large cities in the East to the agricultural districts in the West, but a change of great importance was brought about in 1910 by the completion of the last tunnel on the Argentine Transandine Railway, which serves to connect Santiago, Valparaiso and the other great cities of the west coast with Buenos Ayres, Montevideo, Bahia, Rio de Janeiro and the other great cities of the east coast.

The sides of the tunnel showed before them like the inside of a long spy-glass, and the floor became more level.

She squeezed her eyes closed, ears buzzing and tunnel vision forming.

The Transandine line, designed to open railway communication between Buenos Aires and Valparaiso, was so far completed early in 1909 that on the Argentine side only the summit tunnel, 2 m.

She finally entered a tunnel and floated toward a peaceful light.

Caleb knelt in a grotto of the tunnel, and at first she thought he had fallen, too.

The tunnel widened, and his pace slowed as he saw another tunnel intersect it.

Some climb trees and feed on leaves, while others tunnel between bark and wood.

The neighbouring Thames Tunnel was opened in 1843, but, as the tolls were insufficient to maintain it, was sold to the East London Railway Company in 1865.

Some believe that world governments have made plans for a select few to survive in underground bunkers and tunnel networks.

A series of six exercises for carpal tunnel was developed by Dr. Housang Seradge and a team of orthopedic surgeons.

As a result of his testing, Dr. Seradge found that for patients with mild to moderate carpal tunnel syndrome that followed his exercise plan, two out of three of them did not need to have the surgery.

In addition to the exercises recommended by Dr. Seradge, there are other exercises you can do to relieve the symptoms of carpal tunnel syndrome.

By doing simple carpal tunnel exercises you may be able to prevent acquiring the painful condition.

If you already have mild to moderate carpal tunnel syndrome, these exercises should help to reduce the symptoms you experience.

This can be very helpful for anyone with carpal tunnel syndrome or any other hand injury.

Additionally, consistent typing can cause carpal tunnel syndrome.

She jerked as the ground lurched below them, lowering them slowly through the thick cement layers into a tunnel wide enough for a dump truck.

He picked one up then looked down the tunnel.

A tunnel connecting it with the opposite shore of the river was opened in June 1908.

The branch to East Boston (1900-1904) passes beneath the harbour bed; it is the first double-track tunnel in the United States, and the first all-cement tunnel (diameter, 23.6 ft.) in the world.

In both there are species which form no nest or burrow, others which construct a simple silk-lined tunnel in the soil, and others which close the aperture of the burrow with a hinged door; while both share the habit of lining the burrow with silk to prevent the infall of loose sand or mould; and the species which make an open burrow close the aperture with a sheet of silk in the winter during hibernation and open it again in the spring.

The tunnel ended at a thick metal door.

Hannibal made a pilgrimage to it in 214 B.C. Agrippa in 37 B.C. converted it into a naval harbour, the Portus Iulius; joining it to the Lacus Lucrinus by a canal, and connecting the latter with the sea, he reduced the distance to Cumae by boring a tunnel over 2 m.

If the tree you decide on has a tunnel or house, make sure the opening is wide enough for your cat to fit through. after all, you want him to make the most of his new play house.

When scorned by a lover, he literally is forced to uproot a long tunnel of emotions which can threaten his entire psychological condition.

As soon as a player has crawled through the tunnel, he is to stand up so the next player can get through his legs.

Patience will see you through the seemingly impossible times and help you look toward the light at the end of the tunnel.

Little girls can see that when things get tough, there's a light at the end of the tunnel, or, in this case, a glass slipper at the end of the night.

Moonville Tunnel Ghost - The second video on the page is a bit more provocative and appears to show what actually looks like a fairly defined spirit.

While it has almost become a cliché, most NDErs report traveling very quickly through a tunnel or cave with brilliant white light at the opposite end.