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• Tunnel warfare — is a type of warfare that occurs in tunnels. It can be sometimes linked with urban warfare, as tunnels are often found in urban area and cities, although urban warfare as a whole usually dominates any tunnel considerations. Tunnels can be used to …   Wikipedia

• tunnel — I n. 1) to bore, construct, dig a tunnel 2) a pedestrian; railroad (AE), railway (BE); wind tunnel 3) a tunnel caves in 4) through a tunnel (to drive through a tunnel) 5) (misc.) (fig.) the light at the end of the tunnel II v. (D; intr.) to… …   Combinatory dictionary

• Tunnel — This article is about underground passages. For other uses, see Tunnel (disambiguation). Underground tunnel for heatpipes between Rigshospitalet and Amagerværket in Denmark …   Wikipedia

• Tunnel boring machine — A tunnel boring machine that was used at Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository A tunnel boring machine (TBM) also known as a mole , is a machine used to excavate tunnels with a circular cross section through a variety of soil and rock strata.… …   Wikipedia

• Tunnel and Reservoir Plan — The Tunnel and Reservoir Plan (abbreviated TARP and more commonly known as the Deep Tunnel Project or the Chicago Deep Tunnel) is a large civil engineering project that aims to reduce flooding in the metropolitan Chicago area, and to reduce the… …   Wikipedia

• tunnel — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun ADJECTIVE ▪ long, short ▪ narrow, wide ▪ dark ▪ winding ▪ …   Collocations dictionary

• tunnel — tunneler; esp. Brit., tunneller, n. tunnellike, adj. /tun l/, n., v., tunneled, tunneling or (esp. Brit.) tunnelled, tunnelling. n. 1. an underground passage. 2. a passageway, as for trains or automobiles, through or under an obstruction, as a… …   Universalium

• construct — constructs, constructing, constructed (The verb is pronounced [[t]kənstrʌ̱kt[/t]]. The noun is pronounced [[t]kɒ̱nstrʌkt[/t]].) 1) VERB If you construct something such as a building, road, or machine, you build it or make it. [V n] The French… …   English dictionary

• construct — I UK [kənˈstrʌkt] / US verb [transitive] Word forms construct : present tense I/you/we/they construct he/she/it constructs present participle constructing past tense constructed past participle constructed *** 1) to build something large or… …   English dictionary

• construct — con|struct1 [ kən strʌkt ] verb transitive *** 1. ) to build something large or complicated, such as a bridge or road: The tunnel was constructed in 1996. be constructed from/of/out of something: St Michael s was an older building, almost… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• tunnel — tun•nel [[t]ˈtʌn l[/t]] n. v. neled, nel•ing (esp. brit.) nelled, nel•ling. 1) civ an underground passage 2) civ a passageway, as for trains or automobiles, through or under a mountain, river, or other obstruction 3) min an approximately… …   From formal English to slang