English Dictionary

tunnel

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈtʌn(ə)l/

名詞

比喩的用法

An underground or underwater passage. / A passage through or under some obstacle. / A hole in the ground made by an animal, a burrow.

日本語の意味

地下または水中にある通路 / 何らかの障害物の下または中を通る通路 / 動物が掘った地中の穴（巣穴）

The train slowed as it entered the dark tunnel beneath the river.

列車は川の下にある暗いトンネルに入ると速度を落とした。

意味（1）

An underground or underwater passage.

In 1865 an outfit called the East London Railway Company bought the Brunel tunnel for £800,000, and in 1869 they opened a railway through it.

意味（2）

A passage through or under some obstacle.

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.

意味（3）

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

意味（4）

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

意味（5）

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.

意味（6）

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

And one great chimney, whose long tonnell thence, / The smoke forth threw

意味（7）

(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.

意味（8）

(figuratively) Anything that resembles a tunnel.

Especially in the Eden Valley, trees create what is almost a green tunnel (particularly in summer).

tunnels （ plural ）