Tunnel
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; a funnel.
An artificial passage or archway for conducting canals or railroads under elevated ground, for the formation of roads under rivers or canals, and the construction of sewers, drains, and the like.
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.
To form into a tunnel, or funnel, or to form like a tunnel; as, to tunnel fibrous plants into nests.
To catch in a tunnel net.
To make an opening, or a passageway, through or under; as, to tunnel a mountain; to tunnel a river.
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Tunnel Quotations
It was like I was in a tunnel. Not only the tunnel under the hotel but the whole circuit was a tunnel. I was just going and going, more and more and more and more. I was way over the limit but still able to find even more.
Ayrton Senna
Sometimes that light at the end of the tunnel is a train.
Charles Barkley
The thing about a hero, is even when it doesn't look like there's a light at the end of the tunnel, he's going to keep digging, he's going to keep trying to do right and make up for what's gone before, just because that's who he is.
Joss Whedon
When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don't throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.
Corrie Ten Boom
The light you see at the end of the tunnel is the front of an oncoming train.
David Lee Roth
The book begins and ends with the visits to give the impression of a tunnel into their ancestors and family history. I believe in going backwards into the past - I felt I was digging a tunnel back to the past.
Anita Desai
She had a penetrating sort of laugh. Rather like a train going into a tunnel.
P. G. Wodehouse
There is a light at the end of the tunnel... hopefully its not a freight train!
Mariah Carey
After a while, you can't get any higher. It's like your head is in a wind tunnel - everything is vibrating.
Method Man
Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years.
Graham Greene
There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over.
Navjot Singh Sidhu
The only way to find out anything about what kinds of lives people led in any given period is to tunnel into their records and to let them speak for themselves.
John Dos Passos
Some actors couldn't figure out how to withstand the constant rejection. They couldn't see the light at the end of the tunnel.
Harrison Ford
There is absolutely, 100 percent, a light at the end of the tunnel for anyone who stutters.
Emily Blunt
For about seven years. I really like it there. There are a lot of great musicians. The scene is very open. A lot of stuff going on. People's ears are really open, they are not closed. A lot of scenes here, people just get tunnel vision and are into one thing.
John Zorn
The magic's back and we're in a time tunnel, feeling like when we were in our 20s back in the 1970s.
Peter Criss
Struggling is hard because you never know what's at the end of the tunnel.
Don Rickles
Also the wonderful thing about film, you can see light at the end of the tunnel. You did realise that it is going to come to an end at some stage.
John Hurt
The summer of 1830 I... blasted the tunnel through the rock to take water from the dam above the falls for the mill... In 1831 we lowered the tunnel four feet, and built a new dam across the creek.
Ezra Cornell
If you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, you are looking the wrong way.
Barry Commoner
Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
Ian Botham
I didn't play the game right because I saw a reward at the end of the tunnel.
Ryne Sandberg
You're talking to somebody who two years ago couldn't figure out how to use e-mail and who now has carpal tunnel. It has totally changed in that these films would not be getting out to people the way they're getting out without the Internet.
Robert Greenwald
When I put my nose in a glass, it's like tunnel vision. I move into another world, where everything around me is just gone, and every bit of mental energy is focused on that wine.
Robert M. Parker, Jr.
In the fifties I had dreams about touching a naked woman and she would turn to bronze or the dream about hot dogs chasing donuts through the Lincoln Tunnel.
Robert Klein
If we see light at the end of the tunnel, it the light of the oncoming train.
Robert Lowell
The light at the end of the tunnel is just the light of an oncoming train.
Robert Lowell
When your child is sick, you have tunnel vision.
Nick Cassavetes
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Tunnel Translations
tunnel in Dutch is tunnel
tunnel in Finnish is tunneli
tunnel in French is tunnel
tunnel in German is Tunnel
tunnel in Italian is galleria
tunnel in Swedish is tunnel
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