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excavation
English
Etymology
From Latin excav?ti? (“a hollowing out”), from excav? (“I hollow out”), from ex + cav? (“I hollow out”), from cavus (“hollow”), from Proto-Indo-European *keu- (“vault, hole”).
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
excavation (countable and uncountable, plural excavations)
- (uncountable) The act of excavating, or of making hollow, by cutting, scooping, or digging out a part of a solid mass.
- (countable) A cavity formed by cutting, digging, or scooping.
- (countable) An uncovered cutting in the earth, in distinction from a covered cutting or tunnel.
- (countable) The material dug out in making a channel or cavity.
- (uncountable) Archaeological research that unearths buildings, tombs and objects of historical value.
- (countable) A site where an archaeological exploration is being carried out.
Translations
French
Pronunciation
Noun
excavation f (plural excavations)
- excavation
Further reading
- “excavation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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tunnel
English
Etymology
From Middle French tonnelle (“net”) or tonel (“cask”), diminutive of Old French tonne (“cask”), a word of uncertain origin and affiliation. Related to Old English tunne (“tun; cask; barrel”). More at tun.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?t?n(?)l/
- Rhymes: -?n?l
- Hyphenation: tun?nel
Noun
tunnel (plural tunnels)
- An underground or underwater passage.
- A passage through or under some obstacle.
- 1922, Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit
- But very soon he grew to like it, for the Boy used to talk to him, and made nice tunnels for him under the bedclothes that he said were like the burrows the real rabbits lived in.
- 1922, Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit
- A hole in the ground made by an animal, a burrow.
- (computing, networking) A wrapper for a protocol that cannot otherwise be used because it is unsupported, blocked, or insecure.
- 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.
- The opening of a chimney for the passage of smoke; a flue.
- (mining) 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.
Descendants
- ? Portuguese: túnel
Translations
Verb
tunnel (third-person singular simple present tunnels, present participle (UK) tunnelling or (US) tunneling, simple past and past participle (UK) tunnelled or (US) tunneled)
- (transitive) To make a tunnel through or under something; to burrow.
- (intransitive) To dig a tunnel.
- (computing, networking) To transmit something through a tunnel (wrapper for insecure or unsupported protocol).
- (transitive, medicine) To insert a catheter into a vein to allow long-term use.
- (physics) To undergo the quantum-mechanical phenomenon where a particle penetrates through a barrier that it classically cannot surmount.
Derived terms
Further reading
- tunnel on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Tunnel (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- nunlet, unlent
Danish
Noun
tunnel c (definite singular tunnelen or tunnellen, indefinite plural tunneler or tunneller, definite plural tunnelerne or tunnellerne)
- tunnel
Derived terms
- tunnelsyn
- vindtunnel
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English tunnel, from Middle French tonnelle.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?t?.n?l/
- Hyphenation: tun?nel
Noun
tunnel m (plural tunnels, diminutive tunneltje n)
- tunnel
Derived terms
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English tunnel, itself a borrowing from French tonnelle; hence a reborrowing. Doublet of tonnelle.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ty.n?l/
Noun
tunnel m (plural tunnels)
- tunnel
Derived terms
- voir le bout du tunnel
Further reading
- “tunnel” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English tunnel.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?tun.nel/
- Hyphenation: tùn?nel
Noun
tunnel m (invariable)
- tunnel
- Synonyms: galleria, traforo
Norwegian Bokmål
Alternative forms
- tunell
Noun
tunnel m (definite singular tunnelen, indefinite plural tunneler, definite plural tunnelene)
- a tunnel
- (soccer) nutmeg
Derived terms
References
- “tunnel” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Anagrams
- lunnet, lunten
Norwegian Nynorsk
Alternative forms
- tunell
Etymology
From English tunnel, Middle French tonnelle (“net”) or tonel (“cask”), diminutive of Old French tonne (“cask”), a word of uncertain origin and affiliation.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t??n?l?/, /?t?n??l/
Noun
tunnel m (definite singular tunnelen, indefinite plural tunnelar, definite plural tunnelane)
- a tunnel
- (soccer) nutmeg
Derived terms
References
- “tunnel” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Swedish
Pronunciation
Noun
tunnel c
- tunnel
- An underground or underwater passage.
- A passage through or under some obstacle.
- A hole in the ground made by an animal, a burrow.
Declension
Related terms
- biltunnel
- järnvägstunnel
- tunneleffekt
- tunnelseende
- tunnla
- tunnling
- vindtunnel
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