Čo znamená tunnel v angličtine a aká je definícia tunnel?

V tomto najautoritatívnejšom anglickom slovníku sa môžete naučiť tunnel výslovnosť, gramatika a synonymá.

tunnel Význam & definícia

0 a long passage under or through the ground, especially one made by people:
- The train went into the tunnel.
1 to dig a tunnel:
- The decision has not yet been made whether to tunnel under the river or build a bridge over it.
- The alternative is to tunnel a route through the mountain.
- He was trapped in a collapsed building but managed to tunnel his way out.
2 a long passage under or through the earth, esp. one made for vehicles:
- The train entered the tunnel.
3 to dig a tunnel:
- [ I ] Earthworms digest organic matter as they tunnel.
- [ T ] The people trapped in the collapsed building had to tunnel their way out.

The tunnel was dug with the aid of heavy machinery.
Ten miners were trapped underground when the roof of the tunnel fell in.
The road goes over the mountains, not through a tunnel.
It is not practicable to complete the tunnel before the end of the year.
A tunnel entrance was found within the precincts of the prison camp.
Termites tunnelled slowly in the dry sand, but diverted their tunnelling into the wet sand once it had been discovered.
Both are usually estimated using data derived by scanning tunneling microscopy from different surface specimens.
An infested tuber was defined as one with visible tunnelling damage, regardless of the presence or absence of larvae.