tunnel1 nountunnel2 verb
tunneltun‧nel1 /ˈtʌnl/ ●●● W3 noun [countable] 
WORD ORIGINtunnel1
Origin:
1400-1500 Old French tonel ‘barrel’, from tonne, from Medieval Latin tunnaEXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
- A rock dam was erected to keep bat fans out of the tunnel.
- About eighteen people escaped from this tunnel and they were not all recaptured until four days later.
- He was emerging from the tunnel.
- Irrigation tunnels of water ran beside the beds and not far from small thatched-roof houses.
- Napoleon is believed to have been warmly in favour even though the tunnel was not designed for military purposes.
- Over the next few hours, faces and figures passed like the tableaux of a funhouse tunnel.
- Police feared that du Pont might try to flee through a series of tunnels beneath the house.
- The construction works on the tunnel would disrupt one of the colony's main breeding grounds.
Longman Language Activatormaking you feel more hope
· The fact that the two sides have agreed to hold negotiations is an extremely hopeful sign.look hopeful · Things might get better, but it isn't looking very hopeful right now.sound hopeful · At the interview they told me I was "the right sort of person'. I thought that sounded kind of hopeful.
making you feel more confident and hopeful: · The doctor had some encouraging news -- I would soon be able to walk again.· There are one or two more encouraging signs in the economy now.· So far the results of our tests have been very encouraging.
seeming likely to be good or successful: · The future looks promising for British companies abroad.· The weather outlook for the weekend isn't very promising.· My grandfather gave up a promising career in law to fight for his country.
if something such as a new situation or discovery offers hope , it makes it possible for people to feel more hopeful that a bad situation will improve: offer hope to: · The new treatment may offer hope to thousands of cancer patients.offer hope of: · A recent UN initiative seems to offer some hope of a lasting peace settlement in the region.
to make people more confident than before that what they are hoping for will happen: raise hopes that: · The latest news has raised hopes that another Western hostage might soon be released.raise somebody's hopes: · Speculation in the press about tax cuts has raised everyone's hopes.
formal making people hopeful that good things will happen: · The baseball season got off to an auspicious start with two good wins for the Tokyo Giants.· It is my honour to toast the bride and groom on this auspicious occasion.
something good that gives you hope that a long and difficult period is going to end soon: · For Jane there is some light at the end of the tunnel, but many anorexia sufferers continue to suffer in silence.see the light at the end of the tunnel (=realize that there is hope): · After all the problems we've had we're finally beginning to see some light at the end of the tunnel.
something that gives you a small reason to hope that a bad situation will improve: · The news gave a glimmer of hope that Michael might be released from prison early.· The one ray of hope seemed to be the possibility that the enemy would call off their attack because of the weather.
WORD SETSaccelerate, verbaerodynamic, adjectiveaerodynamics, nounairfreight, nounaisle, nounarr., baggage room, nounboard, verbboarding, nounBOL, booking office, nounbrake, nounbrake, verbbrake light, nounbrake shoe, nounbreakdown clause, bulk freight, C&F, cable car, nouncable railway, nouncargo, nouncarriage, nouncarrier, nouncart, nounCFR, change, verbchange, nounchassis, nounchopper, nounCMR, compartment, nounconcourse, nounconductor, nouncongested, adjectiveconnect, verbconnection, nounconsolidator, nouncontainer, nounconveyance, nounconvoy, nouncouple, verbcoupling, nouncourier, nouncourier, verbcrash, verbcrash, nouncrew, nouncrewman, nouncruise, verbcutting, noundead reckoning, noundelivery date, departure, noundestination, noundispatch rider, noundistribution channel, diverge, verbdouble-book, verbdrop-off, noundrop-shipping, nounelevated railway, nounengine, nounengineer, nounETA, nounfare, nounfeeder, nounfirst class, nounfirst-class, adjectivefloating insurance, flow, verbFOB, FOB airport, fogbound, adjectiveFOR, fork, nounfork, verbfree of particular average, adjectivefreighter, noungangway, noungross weight, Gro t, gyroscope, nounHague Rules, nounhelmet, nounhigh-speed, adjectivehijack, verbhijack, nounhitch, verbhub airport, ICAO, intercity, adjectiveinternational airport, interstate, adjectivekph, LGV, line, nounloading, nounluge, nounluggage, nounluggage rack, nounmachine, nounmarine insurance, mileage, nounmilepost, nounmotion sickness, nounmph, mudflap, nounnavigate, verbnavigation, nounnet weight, one-way, adjectiveopen insurance, outride, verbovertake, verbpackager, nounpannier, nounpart shipment, passenger, nounpayload, nounportage, nounporter, nounpropulsion, nounramp, nounreceiving office, red-eye, nounregional airport, re-route, verbreturn, nounreturn, adjectivereverse logistics, ride, verbroller, nounround-trip, nounround-trip, adjectiveroute, nounroute, verbrun, verbrun, nounschedule, nounsecond class, nounservice, nounship, verbshipload, nounshipment, nounshipper, nounshipping, nounshuttle, nounshuttle, verbsingle, adjectivesingle, nounski, nounskid, verbskid, nounstabilizer, nounstaging post, nounstall, verbsteering wheel, nounstopping distance, nounstowage, nounsubsonic, adjectivesupersonic, adjectivesurface transport, tailwind, nountanker, nounticket, nountime machine, nountimetable, nountourist class, nountowrope, nountrack, nountrack, verbtraffic, nountranscontinental, adjectivetransfer, verbtransfer, nountransit visa, nountransportation, nountransship, travel insurance, troop carrier, nountruckload, nountunnel, nountwo-seater, nountyre, noununderway, adjectiveU-turn, nounviaduct, nounwheel, nounwheel, verbwreck, nounyaw, verbyield, verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRYADJECTIVES/NOUN + tunnel
the maze of narrow streets I was led through a maze of corridors.
· A 250-metre-long tunnel provides access to all parts of the development.
· He peered uneasily down the dark tunnel at the end of the platform.
· She ran down the narrow tunnel leading to the exit.
· The prisoners escaped through an underground tunnel.
· the 15km long Gotthard railway tunnel
· a road tunnel through the mountains
(=the tunnel under the sea between England and France)· They went by train via the Channel Tunnel.
phrases· The roof of the tunnel was a foot above his head.
· To the right was the entrance to a second tunnel.
verbs· Burglars had dug a tunnel under the building in an attempted raid.
· The contractors will start building the tunnel next month.
· The Greenwich Foot Tunnel leads under the River Thames.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES· At high tide, the tunnel entrance is totally submerged.
the maze of narrow streets I was led through a maze of corridors. (=when you can only see what you are directly looking at)· A pupil with tunnel vision may have difficulty finding the words written on the blackboard.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE· They went down the dark tunnel.· We are in a dark tunnel.· Some light at the end of the dark tunnel of life.· The train roared past a local stop, then on through the dark tunnel.· Shining her torch Lais led them along a small dark tunnel, lugging aside a pile of crates to reveal a manhole.· Then he saw the path, leading away into yet another dark tunnel mouth.
· There are along the route four long tunnels, each of which would have required attention.· Beyond the Hai Van Pass we entered a long tunnel.· At nearly 2 miles long, at the time it was built, it was the longest tunnel in the world.· The arduous task of legging through a long tunnel like that under Castle Hill at Dudley could take over 3 hours.· Tabitha found herself being diverted down a long underground tunnel to the civil concourse.· Hoo-Woo opened the door and we entered a long tunnel.· I felt as if I was at the end of a long tunnel where some one was kicking my legs.· This unexpectedly burrows beneath the grounds of Ingleborough Hall in two long tunnels.
· There's an underground tunnel that goes from here to an empty tomb in the churchyard.· Small leaks in underground or underwater tunnels are not unusual.· Tabitha found herself being diverted down a long underground tunnel to the civil concourse.· It feels like an underground tunnel down there, the walls thick and heavy, the air damp and cool.· Earlier in the day passengers were forced to walk through an underground tunnel after a train partially derailed.· Gophers, which travel via underground tunnels, make a fan-shaped mound of dirt.· C., has an underground tunnel running from the government offices to the Capitol.
NOUN· Will he take note of the campaign to sink the link, as the channel tunnel rail link passes Gravesend and Northfleet?· The Channel tunnel project is the largest enterprise of its kind to be financed from private sources.· There was also a £12m provision against possible losses from its participation in the Channel tunnel construction consortium.· He also described the various channel tunnel options currently being studied by the Ministry.· I think that I am the only hon. Member to have served on two Select Committees on the channel tunnel.· Mr. Mans Is my hon. Friend aware that people up in the north-west welcome the prospect of the channel tunnel being opened?· Does he think that that is the way that one should plan the freight movement from the north-west through the channel tunnel?
· The resident here has clamped his opponent and is lifting him away from the tunnel entrance.· Half way down was a stone arch over the tunnel entrance.· Railway builders gave a special dignity and significance to the treatment of tunnel entrances.· The nettles in the tunnel entrance had been partially flattened.
· Sites investigated included a disused railway tunnel and bogland in Nad.
· Something not unlike tunnel vision ensues in the case of black kids.· Each group has its insular concerns and each is locked within the tunnel vision of its own experience and tangible self-interest.· I just looked straight down the track, set my tunnel vision and climbed into my blocks.· Such proposals are typical of the tunnel vision that has characterized most of our economic models.· And many, surely, that our human tunnel vision is unable to perceive.· But such thinking can produce temporal tunnel vision.· I had three children, a home to run ... and tunnel vision as far as the Spencers were concerned.· He has tunnel vision when he is doing well.
· They pass a stone doorway in the tunnel wall, but by-pass it in favour of a more obvious way out.
· Work includes full-scale experiments, wind tunnel studies and computational fluid dynamics.· Fall through the platform, and unless you're either amazingly brave or stupid head down the wind tunnel to the left.· The reverse acoustic ceilings amplify the din to a decibel range appropriate for a wind tunnel.· It was the wind tunnel which gave birth to the characteristic shape of the Boeing 747.· But the wind tunnel specifications called for this wall to be able to withstand seventy-five pounds a square foot.· During wind tunnel tests on the car, at the development stage, water was added.· By ensuring that only the most promising designs enter the wind tunnel, it has made physical evaluation more cost effective.
VERB· In my view there was only one hope, and that was to build the tunnel using private venture capital.· There were good reasons for the enemy to build the tunnels where they did.
· Deeper and deeper he dug, following the tunnel into the bank.· We had some bulldozers, and they tried to dig out the tunnels.· Trespass can therefore be committed by a person who digs a tunnel under land or who abuses the airspace.· Everyone dug tunnels and trenches under fire, sometimes hitting hard soil and only advancing five or six yards a day.· I could dig a tunnel round the door.· I could dig a tunnel right out.· Burglars smashed in the steel shutters and even dug a tunnel under the building in an attempted raid.· Moreover the moles dug hundreds of tunnels under their line of march.
· They drove on through a tunnel and then the landscape became more arid.
· With a roar it emerged from the tunnel and ground to a halt along the platform.· He was emerging from the tunnel.· In the meantime Koquillion emerges from the tunnel door.· The bats normally emerge from the tunnel at about 8 p. m. to take advantage of the prime bug-hunting time.· Roland emerged from tunnels of shelving into Blackadder's icily lit domain.· Jarvis slipped away and on to the platform to feel the wind blow through, ahead of the train emerging from the tunnel.· Thus did I emerge from the night tunnel of restless body movement.· So do I. They emerge from the tunnel like an ad for mushy peas.
· Fights take place when a male enters a tunnel where another male is already resident.· He entered another little lighted tunnel of a street.· By ensuring that only the most promising designs enter the wind tunnel, it has made physical evaluation more cost effective.· Beyond the Hai Van Pass we entered a long tunnel.· He must prevent another train entering the tunnel.· The road passed between stands of tall green bamboo, as though entering a tunnel.· As it passes I turn and watch it enter Hadley Wood South tunnel.· Hoo-Woo opened the door and we entered a long tunnel.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
1a passage that has been dug under the ground for cars, trains etc to go through: - After a year of declining profits, there's finally a light at the end of the tunnel.
- After all the problems we've had we're finally beginning to see some light at the end of the tunnel.
- For Jane there is some light at the end of the tunnel, but many anorexia sufferers continue to suffer in silence.
a railway tunnel the Channel Tunnel (=between England and France)2a passage under the ground that animals have dug to live inCOLLOCATIONSADJECTIVES/NOUN + tunnela two-mile/1500-foot-long etc tunnel· A 250-metre-long tunnel provides access to all parts of the development.a dark tunnel· He peered uneasily down the dark tunnel at the end of the platform.a narrow tunnel· She ran down the narrow tunnel leading to the exit.an underground tunnel· The prisoners escaped through an underground tunnel.a rail/railway tunnel· the 15km long Gotthard railway tunnela road tunnel· a road tunnel through the mountainsthe Channel Tunnel (=the tunnel under the sea between England and France)· They went by train via the Channel Tunnel.phrasesthe roof of a tunnel· The roof of the tunnel was a foot above his head.the entrance to a tunnel/tunnel entrance· To the right was the entrance to a second tunnel.verbsdig a tunnel· Burglars had dug a tunnel under the building in an attempted raid.build a tunnel· The contractors will start building the tunnel next month.a tunnel leads somewhere· The Greenwich Foot Tunnel leads under the River Thames.tunnel1 nountunnel2 verb
tunneltunnel2 verb (past tense and past participle tunnelled, present participle tunnelling British English, tunneled, tunneling American English) [intransitive always + adverb/preposition, transitive] VERB TABLE
tunnel
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | tunnel |
| he, she, it | tunnels | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | tunnelled (BrE), tunneled (AmE) |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have tunnelled (BrE), tunneled (AmE) |
| he, she, it | has tunnelled (BrE), tunneled (AmE) | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had tunnelled (BrE), tunneled (AmE) |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will tunnel |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have tunnelled (BrE), tunneled (AmE) |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am tunnelling (BrE), tunneling (AmE) |
| he, she, it | is tunnelling (BrE), tunneling (AmE) | |
| you, we, they | are tunnelling (BrE), tunneling (AmE) | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was tunnelling (BrE), tunneling (AmE) |
| you, we, they | were tunnelling (BrE), tunneling (AmE) | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been tunnelling (BrE), tunneling (AmE) |
| he, she, it | has been tunnelling (BrE), tunneling (AmE) | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been tunnelling (BrE), tunneling (AmE) |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be tunnelling (BrE), tunneling (AmE) |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been tunnelling (BrE), tunneling (AmE) |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- After days of digging, the prisoners finally tunnelled their way out of the camp and escaped.
- Special drilling equipment is being used to tunnel beneath the sea bed.
- worms tunnelling through the mud
- It snows throughout the winter in Jozankei, and it gets so deep, the people tunnel under the immovable drifts.
- They had tunnelled down into the plateau, and they had built upwards as far as their materials and construction abilities would allow.
- They may watch the sand shifting as they tunnel their hands into it.
- Trent rode in first gear, headlight tunnelling into the forest gloom through which the rain bucketed.
Longman Language Activatorto dig earth out of the ground
to make a hole in the ground, using your hands, a tool, or a machine: · I found two dogs digging in the garden, looking for bones.· He was paid twelve dollars an hour to dig ditches and mix cement.dig for something (=in order to find something): · There were two fishermen on the beach digging for worms.dig a hole/ditch/grave etc: · The workmen began digging a hole in the middle of the road.· Some of the prisoners escaped through a tunnel they had dug under the wall.
formal: excavate a hole/chamber/trench etc to dig a deep or large hole, especially as a preparation for building something: · The turtle excavates a hole in the sand and then lays its eggs in it.· Workers had already begun excavating the foundations for the house.
to dig a long passage under the ground, especially one that people or vehicles can go through: tunnel under/beneath/through etc: · Special drilling equipment is being used to tunnel beneath the sea bed.· worms tunnelling through the mudtunnel your way out/through/under etc: · After days of digging, the prisoners finally tunnelled their way out of the camp and escaped.
if an animal burrows , it makes a passage under the ground by digging through the earth as it moves forward: burrow into/under/through: · Toads burrow into the earth to hide from their enemies.burrow a hole: · The rabbits had burrowed a hole under the fence.
British /plow American to turn over the earth in a field using a special tool or machine in order to prepare it for growing crops: · The fields are ploughed as soon as the winter crop is removed.· Farmers were plowing their land and planting cotton seeds.
WORD SETSboiler, nouncamshaft, nounchuck, nouncollar, nounconsole, nouncylinder, noundecompress, verbdiggings, noundrag, nounengagement, nounengine, nounengineer, nounengineer, verbexhaust, nounhydraulics, nounlubricant, nounlubricate, verbmetal fatigue, nounperformance, nounpipe fitter, nounpipeline, nounpiston, nounplunger, nounregulator, nounrig, nounrivet, verbrotary, adjectivesafety valve, nounseparator, nounshaft, nounshockproof, adjectivesparking plug, nounspark plug, nounspindle, nounstarter, nounstreamline, verbtheodolite, nountorsion, nountruss, nountune, verbtune-up, nountunnel, verbturboprop, nounwind tunnel, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES the maze of narrow streets I was led through a maze of corridors.
· At high tide, the tunnel entrance is totally submerged.
the maze of narrow streets I was led through a maze of corridors. (=when you can only see what you are directly looking at)· A pupil with tunnel vision may have difficulty finding the words written on the blackboard.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
1to dig a long passage under the groundtunnel into/through/under- After a year of declining profits, there's finally a light at the end of the tunnel.
- After all the problems we've had we're finally beginning to see some light at the end of the tunnel.
- For Jane there is some light at the end of the tunnel, but many anorexia sufferers continue to suffer in silence.
They were tunnelling into the mountainside.tunnel your way under/through etc The prisoners tunneled their way under the fence.2if insects tunnel into something, they make holes in ittunnel into The grubs tunnel into the wood.