verb

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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.

noun

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The act of burrowing a tunnel.

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The practice of exploring tunnel.

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The quantum mechanical passing of a particle through an energy barrier.

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A type of fraud where assets and profits are transferred out of firms for the benefit of those who control them.

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A feature of the file system that allows files to preserve certain properties, such as creation date, even after being deleted and recreated.

Examples of tunnelling in a Sentence

When an engineer has to construct a railway up a hill having a still steeper slope, he must secure practicable gradients by laying out the line in ascending spirals, if necessary tunnelling into the hill, as on the St Gothard railway, or in a series of zigzags, or he must resort to a rack or a cable railway.

The water is not brought to the surface, but is carried over long distances by an underground channel or drain, which is constructed by sinking shafts at intervals along the required course and connecting the shafts by tunnelling.

But the survivors returned to the spot, and by digging down and tunnelling were able to remove all the objects of value, even the marble facing slabs of the large buildings.

The total strength of the army was raised by ro,000 British and 20,000 native troops, at an annual cost of about two millions sterling; and the frontier post of Quetta, in the neighbourhood of Kandahar, was connected with the Indian railway system by a line that involved very expensive tunnelling.

Where the depth to rail-level was too great for cut-and-cover methods, ordinary tunnelling processes were used; and where the trench was too shallow for the arched roof, heavy girders, sometimes of cast iron, bridged it between the side walls, longitudinal.

The termites, or " white ants," are exceptionally destructive because of their habit of tunnelling through the softer woods of habitations and furniture, while some species of ants, like the sadba, are equally destructive to plantations because of the rapidity with which they strip a tree of its foliage.

Scanty traces of fortifications of the Roman period seem to have come to light in recent tunnelling operations.

With these instincts and maxims, and with his strength, granting it almost more than human, spent ever tunnelling in abstruse mines of knowledge, his moral experience is not likely to have been deeply troubled.

Fowler was engineer of the London Metropolitan railway, the pioneer of underground railways, and noteworthy in that it was mostly made not by tunnelling, but by excavating from the surface and then covering in the permanent way; and he lived to be one of the engineers officially connected with the deep tunnelling "tube" system extensively adopted for electric railways in London.

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