Palabra Inglés del Día

tunnel

túnel

Definiciones

inglés > español
tunnel
1. túnel
inglés > inglés
tunnel
1. s. An underground or underwater passage.
2. s. A passage through or under some obstacle.
3. s. A hole in the ground made by an animal, a burrow.
4. s. (computing, networking) A wrapper for a protocol that cannot otherwise be used because it is unsupported, blocked, or insecure.
5. s. 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.
6. s. The opening of a chimney for the passage of smoke; a flue.
7. s. (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
8. v. To make a tunnel through or under something; to burrow.
9. v. (intransitive) To dig a tunnel.
10. v. (computing, networking) To transmit something through a tunnel (wrapper for insecure or unsupported protocol).
11. v. (transitive, medicine) To insert a catheter into a vein to allow long-term use.
12. v. (physics) To undergo the quantum-mechanical phenomenon where a particle penetrates through a barrier that it classically cannot surmount.
español > inglés
túnel
1. n-m. tunnel
2. n-m. (football) nutmeg