inglês > português |
tunnel |
1. túnel |
inglês > inglês |
tunnel |
1. n. An underground or underwater passage. |
2. n. A passage through or under some obstacle. |
3. n. A hole in the ground made by an animal, a burrow. |
4. n. (computing, networking) A wrapper for a protocol that cannot otherwise be used because it is unsupported, blocked, or insecure. |
5. n. 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. n. The opening of a chimney for the passage of smoke; a flue. |
7. n. (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. |
português > inglês |
túnel |
1. n-m. tunnel (an underground or underwater passage) |
2. n-m. (Portugal, soccer) nutmeg (the playing of the ball between the legs of an opponent) |