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- The practice of exploring tunnel.
- The act of burrowing a tunnel.
- (finance) A type of fraud where assets and profits are transferred out of firms for the benefit of those who control them.
- (computing, Microsoft Windows) A feature of the file system that allows files to preserve certain properties, such as creation date, even after being deleted and recreated.
- (physics) The quantum mechanical passing of a particle through an energy barrier.
- (figurative) Anything that resembles a tunnel.
- a passageway through or under something, usually underground (especially one for trains or cars)
- An underground or underwater passage.
- The opening of a chimney for the passage of smoke; a flue.
- (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.
- 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.
- A hole in the ground made by an animal, a burrow.
- (computing, networking) A wrapper for a protocol that cannot otherwise be used because it is unsupported, blocked, or insecure.
- A passage through or under some obstacle.
- a hole made by an animal, usually for shelter
- (intransitive) To dig a tunnel.
- (physics) To undergo the quantum-mechanical phenomenon where a particle penetrates through a barrier that it classically cannot surmount.
- (transitive) To make a tunnel through or under something; to burrow.
- (transitive, medicine) To insert a catheter into a vein to allow long-term use.
- (computing, networking) To transmit something through a tunnel (wrapper for an insecure or unsupported protocol).
- move through by or as by digging
- force a way through
- An underground tunnel in a mine.
- (nautical, usually in the plural) A partly sheltered area of water near a shore in which vessels may ride at anchor; a roadstead.
- (uncountable) Roads in general as a means of travel, especially by motor vehicle.
- (figuratively) A path chosen, as in life or career.
- (cricket) A hard, flat pitch, typically favourable for batters.
- (US, UK, rail transport) A single railroad track (railway track).
- A way used for travelling between places, originally one wide enough to allow foot passengers and horses to travel, now (US) usually one surfaced with asphalt or concrete and designed to accommodate many vehicles travelling in both directions. In the UK both senses are heard: a country road is the same as a country lane.
- an open way (generally public) for travel or transportation
- a way or means to achieve something
- a long vertical passage sunk into the earth, as for a mine or tunnel
- A vertical or inclined passage sunk into the earth as part of a mine.
- an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect
- a long pointed rod used as a tool or weapon
- obscene terms for penis
- the main (mid) section of a long bone
- a revolving rod that transmits power or motion
- the hollow spine of a feather
- a column of light (as from a beacon)
- a vertical passageway through a building (as for an elevator)
- a line that forms the length of an arrow pointer
- a long rod or pole (especially the handle of an implement or the body of a weapon like a spear or arrow)
- (architecture) upright consisting of the vertical part of a column
- A ventilation or heating conduit.
- The long, narrow, central body of a spear, arrow, or javelin.
- (meteorology) A relatively small area of precipitation that an onlook can discern from the dry surrounding area.
- (architecture) Any column or pillar, particularly the body of a column between its capital and pedestal.
- (literary) A beam or ray of light.
- The main axis of a feather.
- One of the poles between which a draught animal is harnessed to a vehicle.
- (anatomy) The main cylindrical part of the penis.
- A vertical passage housing a lift or elevator.
- (weaving) A component of a loom which holds the heddles and is raised by treadles to create the shed.
- The chamber of a blast furnace.
- (lacrosse) The long narrow body of a lacrosse stick.
- (slang) An act of sexual intercourse.
- A rotating machine element used to transmit power; a driveshaft
- (by extension) Anything cast or thrown as a spear or javelin.
- a series of connected underground tunnels occupied by rabbits
- an overcrowded residential area
- a colony of rabbits
- (figuratively) A mazelike place of passages and/or rooms in which it's easy to lose oneself; especially one that may be overcrowded.
- A system of burrows in which rabbits live.
- (historical) The right to maintain and hunt an area of small beasts, similar to a free warren, but with certain limitations, such as restricting the right to hunt on parts of the land held by freeholders.
- A place legally authorized for the keeping, breeding and hunting of beasts of warren, especially rabbits.
- (transitive) To bend or move (something) out of a given plane or direction, often the horizontal or vertical.
- (chiefly intransitive, chiefly passive voice) To tend to do or believe something, or move or be moved in a certain direction, away from a point of view, attitude, etc.
- (intransitive) To slope.
- feel favorably disposed or willing
- make receptive or willing towards an action or attitude or belief
- have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined
- be at an angle
- lower or bend (the head or upper body), as in a nod or bow
- bend or turn (one's ear) towards a speaker in order to listen well
- a passage (a pipe or tunnel) through which water or electric wires can pass
- A pipe or channel for conveying water, etc.
- (figurative) A means by which something is transmitted.
- (cellular automata) Any pattern, typically composed of still lifes or oscillators, used to transfer an active region to another location without being destroyed or permanently modified in the process.
- (finance) An investment vehicle that issues short-term commercial paper to finance long-term off–balance sheet bank assets.
- A duct or tube into which electrical cables may be pulled: electrical conduit.
- complex system of paths or tunnels in which it is easy to get lost
- a complex system of interconnecting cavities; concerned with hearing and equilibrium
- (anatomy) A complex structure in the inner ear which contains the organs of hearing and balance, consisting of bony cavities (the bony labyrinth) filled with fluid and lined with sensitive membranes (the membranous labyrinth).
- (zoology) An accessory respiratory organ of certain fish.
- A complicated irregular network of passages or paths, especially underground or covered, in which it is difficult to find one's way.
- Any of various satyrine butterflies of the genus Neope.
- (horticulture) A maze formed by paths separated by high hedges.
- (by extension) Anything complicated and confusing in structure, arrangement, or character.
- A structure similar to a maze, but containing only one path with no branches, as distinguished from a maze which contains multiple branching paths
- (physics, uncountable) Initialism of electron tunneling.
- (countable) Abbreviation of extraterrestrial.
- (travel, aviation, reservation system) Initialism of end transaction or end of transaction (with "transaction" meaning an amendment in the reservation system in this sense).
- (medicine) Abbreviation of endotracheal or endotracheal tube.
- (medicine) Initialism of essential tremor.
- (sports, especially drag racing) Initialism of elapsed time.
- (travel, aviation) Initialism of electronic ticket.
- (music, countable) Initialism of escape tone.
- (uncountable) Initialism of Eastern Time (-5 hours to GMT).
- (mining) The heading or excavation of relatively small dimensions, first made in the driving of a larger tunnel.
- One who flies a kite.
- A pilot light.
- A short plug, sometimes made interchangeable, at the end of a counterbore to guide the tool.
- A person who steers a ship, a helmsman.
- (Australia, road transport, informal) A pilot vehicle.
- (aviation) A person who is in charge of the controls of an aircraft.
- Something serving as a test or trial.
- An instrument for detecting the compass error.
- (telecommunications, often attributive) A tone or signal, usually a single frequency, transmitted over a communications system for control or synchronization purposes.
- A guide book for maritime navigation.
- A person who knows well the depths, shoals, and currents of a harbor or coastal area, who is hired by a vessel to help navigate the harbor or coast.
- (television) A sample episode of a proposed TV series produced to decide if it should be made or not. If approved, typically the first episode of an actual TV series.
- (Australia, road transport) A person authorised to drive such a vehicle during an escort.
- (rail transport) A cowcatcher.
- A guide or escort through an unknown or dangerous area.
- (Europe, motor racing) A racing driver.
- a person qualified to guide ships through difficult waters going into or out of a harbor
- small auxiliary gas burner that provides a flame to ignite a larger gas burner
- something that serves as a model or a basis for making copies
- an inclined metal frame at the front of a locomotive to clear the track
- a program exemplifying a contemplated series; intended to attract sponsors
- someone who is licensed to operate an aircraft in flight
- (transitive) To guide (a vessel) through coastal waters.
- (transitive) To control (an aircraft or watercraft).
- (transitive) To guide or conduct (a person) somewhere.
- (rail transport, of a locomotive) To serve as the leading locomotive on a double-headed train.
- (transitive) To test or have a preliminary trial of (an idea, a new product, television show, etc.)
- act as the navigator in a car, plane, or vessel and plan, direct, plot the path and position of the conveyance
- operate an airplane
- (microscopy) Initialism of scanning tunneling microscope.
- (publishing industry) Initialism of scientific, technical, and medicine.
- (cognitive science) Initialism of short-term memory.
- (computing theory) Initialism of software transactional memory.
- (train control) Initialism of specific transmission module.
- (physical therapy) Initialism of soft tissue mobilization.
- what you can repeat immediately after perceiving it
- a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine
- (mining) A passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft; a driftway; a small subterranean gallery.
- the pervading meaning or tenor
- a process of linguistic change over a period of time
- a general tendency to change (as of opinion)
- the gradual departure from an intended course due to external influences (as a ship or plane)
- a large mass of material that is heaped up by the wind or by water currents
- a force that moves something along
- (mining) Of a boring or a driven tunnel: deviation from the intended course.
- Anything driven at random.
- A slightly tapered tool of steel for enlarging or shaping a hole in metal, by being forced or driven into or through it; a broach.
- Driftwood included in flotsam washed up onto the beach.
- The angle which the line of a ship's motion makes with the meridian, in drifting.
- (mining) In a coal mine, a heading driven for exploration or ventilation.
- (cricket) A sideways movement of the ball through the air, when bowled by a spin bowler.
- (mining) A heading driven through a seam of coal.
- (uncountable, film) The situation where a performer gradually and unintentionally moves from their proper location within the scene.
- That which is driven, forced, or urged along.
- A tool used to insert or extract a removable pin made of metal or hardwood, for the purpose of aligning and/or securing two pieces of material together.
- In the New Forest National Park, UK, the bi-annual round-up of wild ponies in order to sell them.
- The distance through which a current flows in a given time.
- (architecture) The horizontal thrust or pressure of an arch or vault upon the abutments.
- A deviation from the line of fire, peculiar to obloid projectiles.
- The place in a deep-waisted vessel where the sheer is raised and the rail is cut off, and usually terminated with a scroll, or driftpiece.
- (mining) A sloping winze or road to the surface, for purposes of haulage.
- (mining) An adit or tunnel driven forward for purposes of exploration or exploitation; generally eventually to a dead end.
- A mass of matter which has been driven or forced onward together in a body, or thrown together in a heap, etc., especially by wind or water.
- The difference between the size of a bolt and the hole into which it is driven, or between the circumference of a hoop and that of the mast on which it is to be driven.
- The tendency of an act, argument, course of conduct, or the like; object aimed at or intended; intention; hence, also, import or meaning of a sentence or discourse; aim.
- Course or direction along which anything is driven; setting.
- The distance between the two blocks of a tackle.
- A place (a ford) along a river where the water is shallow enough to permit crossing to the opposite side.
- The act or motion of drifting; the force which impels or drives; an overpowering influence or impulse.
- A drove or flock, as of cattle, sheep, birds.
- A tool used to pack down the composition contained in a rocket, or like firework.
- A collection of loose earth and rocks, or boulders, which have been distributed over large portions of the earth's surface, especially in latitudes north of forty degrees, by the retreat of continental glaciers, such as that which buries former river valleys and creates young river valleys.
- The distance a vessel is carried off from her desired course by the wind, currents, or other causes.
- Slow, cumulative change.
- (uncountable) Minor deviation of audio or video playback from its correct speed.
- move in an unhurried fashion
- live unhurriedly, irresponsibly, or freely
- drive slowly and far afield for grazing
- vary or move from a fixed point or course
- be piled up in banks or heaps by the force of wind or a current
- move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment
- be in motion due to some air or water current
- cause to be carried by a current
- wander from a direct course or at random
- be subject to fluctuation
- (intransitive) To accumulate in heaps by the force of wind; to be driven into heaps.
- (transitive) To drive into heaps.
- (transitive) To drive or carry, as currents do a floating body.
- (automotive) To oversteer a vehicle, causing loss of traction, while maintaining control from entry to exit of a corner. See Drifting (motorsport).
- (transitive, engineering) To enlarge or shape, as a hole, with a drift.
- (intransitive) To deviate gently from the intended direction of travel.
- (intransitive) To move haphazardly without any destination.
- (mining, US) To make a drift; to examine a vein or ledge for the purpose of ascertaining the presence of metals or ores; to follow a vein; to prospect.
- (intransitive) To move slowly, especially pushed by currents of water, air, etc.
- a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine
- a porch along the outside of a building (sometimes partly enclosed)
- narrow recessed balcony area along an upper floor on the interior of a building; usually marked by a colonnade
- a covered corridor (especially one extending along the wall of a building and supported with arches or columns)
- spectators at a golf or tennis match
- a room or series of rooms where works of art are exhibited
- a long usually narrow room used for some specific purpose
- (computing) A browsable collection of images, font styles, etc.
- (entomology) The boring trails produced by an insect in wood.
- Ellipsis of gallery forest.
- An institution, building, or room for the exhibition and conservation of important objects, especially works of art.
- A roofed promenade, especially one extending along the wall of a building and supported by arches or columns on the outer side.
- A part of a monocle—a projection off the ring holding the lens—which helps secure the monocle in the eye socket.
- (automotive) A channel that carries engine oil to parts of the engine that need lubrication, such as the main bearings.
- (fortification) A covered passage cut through the earth or masonry.
- The uppermost seating area projecting from the rear or side walls of a theater, concert hall, or auditorium.
- (mining) A level or drive in a mine.
- (law) The part of a courtroom, often elevated and in the rear, where seating for the public audience is facilitated during trial.
- (by extension, metonymic) The spectators at an event, collectively.
- A part of a light fixture, forming part of its structure and often providing the mounting for the diffuser.
- An establishment that buys, sells, and displays works of art.
- (television) The production control room.
- a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine
- a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about
- the direction or path along which something moves or along which it lies
- (flags) A strip of material at the hoist end of a flag, used for attaching the flag to its halyard.
- (masonry) The end of a stone or brick which is presented outward.
- Material for the heads of casks, barrels, etc.
- The title or topic of a document, article, chapter, or of a section thereof.
- (nautical and aeronautical) The direction into which a seagoing or airborne vessel's bow is pointing (apparent heading) and/or the direction into which it is actually moving relative to the ground (true heading)
- (sewing) The extension of a line ruffling above the line of stitch.
- (mining) A gallery, drift, or adit in a mine, particularly one driving through a solid body of coal or ore; also, the end of a drift or gallery; the vein above a drift.
- (mining) A passage supplying ventilation into a mine tunnel or other underground facility.
- (architecture) A vertical (or near vertical) opening (shaft) running from a courtyard to the sky, thus allowing air to circulate to high-rise apartments or offices.
- (manufacturing) A device used for handling winding reels in the processing of web-fed materials, such as in continuous-process printing presses.
- an underground tunnel or passage enabling pedestrians to cross a road or railway
- an electric railway operating below the surface of the ground (usually in a city)
- (Canada, US) A rapid transit system, regardless of the elevation of its right of way; a metro system.
- (Canada, US, Scotland, South Africa) A train that runs on such an underground railway.
- An underground route for creatures (e.g. bats).
- (Canada, US, Scotland, South Africa) An underground railway, especially for mass transit of people in urban areas.
- (British) An underground walkway, tunnel for pedestrians (called pedestrian underpass in US).
- An underground route for pipes, sewers, etc.
- (mining) A tunnel for drawing spent air away from the working face of a mine.
- The downstream gate in the lock on a canal or river, or in an irrigation system.
- (automotive) A hinged board or hatch at the rear of a vehicle that can be lowered for loading and unloading.
- (US) Ellipsis of tailgate party.
- (especially British) The hinged rear door of a hatchback.
- a gate at the rear of a vehicle; can be lowered for loading
- (finance, of a broker) To privately purchase or sell a security immediately after trading in the same security for a client.
- To follow another person through access control on their access, rather than on one’s own credentials, especially when entering a door controlled by a card reader.
- (automotive, intransitive, transitive) To drive dangerously close behind another vehicle.
- (US, intransitive) To have a tailgate party.
- follow at a dangerously close distance
- One of the entrances to a system of prairie dog tunnels.
- (mining, slang) A mine worked by fewer than fifteen miners, which is small enough that some safety laws do not apply.
- (idiomatic, derogatory) A place regarded as fit only for dogs: a horrid, mean habitation.
- A hole that was dug by a dog.
- A type of small schooner designed in the 19th century to navigate in shallow waters and to conduct coastal shipping in and out of doghole ports.
- A small, shallow bay or inlet, usually surrounded by high cliffs, that is accessible only by smaller boats.
- An underground bolthole dug to hide from enemy soldiers.
- Such a small mine that is dug independently by one or a few miners, often clandestinely and illegally: a bootleg mine.
- A hole drilled for the placement of a bench dog.
- (mining) An excavated area that acts as an access hole or that connects different parts of a mine.
- A tiny, uncomfortable hole or cell, usually too small to stand in, in which prisoners are confined as punishment.
- A short low bridge of similar construction.
- A piece of roughly dressed timber with one face finished flat (by either hewing or sawing).
- A split log or heavy slab of timber with the face smoothed, used especially for flooring but also for log cabin walls, piers, or plank roads.
- A short, upright piece of timber in framing; a short post; an intermediate stud.
- A cask of a certain size; its volume used as a measure of capacity varying from 72 to 120 gallons.
- A figured stamp, die, or punch, used by goldsmiths, cutlers, etc.
- A walkway or short, low footbridge over wet ground constructed with such timbers, made by laying one or more planks or dressed timbers over sills set directly on the ground.
- a passageway under a curved masonry construction
- a curved bony structure supporting or enclosing organs (especially the inner sides of the feet)
- a curved shape in the vertical plane that spans an opening
- (architecture) a masonry construction (usually curved) for spanning an opening and supporting the weight above it
- Any place covered by an arch; an archway.
- (architecture) An architectural element having the shape of an arch
- (anatomy) The curved part of the bottom of a foot.
- (video games) Synonym of god (“person who owns and runs a multi-user dungeon”).
- An inverted U shape.
- (electronics, operating systems) An architecture; a computer architecture or instruction set architecture.
- A natural arch-shaped opening in a rock mass.
- An arch-shaped arrangement of trapezoidal stones, designed to redistribute downward force outward.
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- The practice of exploring tunnel.
- The act of burrowing a tunnel.
- (finance) A type of fraud where assets and profits are transferred out of firms for the benefit of those who control them.
- (computing, Microsoft Windows) A feature of the file system that allows files to preserve certain properties, such as creation date, even after being deleted and recreated.
- (physics) The quantum mechanical passing of a particle through an energy barrier.
- (figurative) Anything that resembles a tunnel.
- a passageway through or under something, usually underground (especially one for trains or cars)
- An underground or underwater passage.
- The opening of a chimney for the passage of smoke; a flue.
- (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.
- 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.
- A hole in the ground made by an animal, a burrow.
- (computing, networking) A wrapper for a protocol that cannot otherwise be used because it is unsupported, blocked, or insecure.
- A passage through or under some obstacle.
- a hole made by an animal, usually for shelter
- (intransitive) To dig a tunnel.
- (physics) To undergo the quantum-mechanical phenomenon where a particle penetrates through a barrier that it classically cannot surmount.
- (transitive) To make a tunnel through or under something; to burrow.
- (transitive, medicine) To insert a catheter into a vein to allow long-term use.
- (computing, networking) To transmit something through a tunnel (wrapper for an insecure or unsupported protocol).
- move through by or as by digging
- force a way through
- An underground tunnel in a mine.
- (nautical, usually in the plural) A partly sheltered area of water near a shore in which vessels may ride at anchor; a roadstead.
- (uncountable) Roads in general as a means of travel, especially by motor vehicle.
- (figuratively) A path chosen, as in life or career.
- (cricket) A hard, flat pitch, typically favourable for batters.
- (US, UK, rail transport) A single railroad track (railway track).
- A way used for travelling between places, originally one wide enough to allow foot passengers and horses to travel, now (US) usually one surfaced with asphalt or concrete and designed to accommodate many vehicles travelling in both directions. In the UK both senses are heard: a country road is the same as a country lane.
- an open way (generally public) for travel or transportation
- a way or means to achieve something
- a long vertical passage sunk into the earth, as for a mine or tunnel
- A vertical or inclined passage sunk into the earth as part of a mine.
- an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect
- a long pointed rod used as a tool or weapon
- obscene terms for penis
- the main (mid) section of a long bone
- a revolving rod that transmits power or motion
- the hollow spine of a feather
- a column of light (as from a beacon)
- a vertical passageway through a building (as for an elevator)
- a line that forms the length of an arrow pointer
- a long rod or pole (especially the handle of an implement or the body of a weapon like a spear or arrow)
- (architecture) upright consisting of the vertical part of a column
- A ventilation or heating conduit.
- The long, narrow, central body of a spear, arrow, or javelin.
- (meteorology) A relatively small area of precipitation that an onlook can discern from the dry surrounding area.
- (architecture) Any column or pillar, particularly the body of a column between its capital and pedestal.
- (literary) A beam or ray of light.
- The main axis of a feather.
- One of the poles between which a draught animal is harnessed to a vehicle.
- (anatomy) The main cylindrical part of the penis.
- A vertical passage housing a lift or elevator.
- (weaving) A component of a loom which holds the heddles and is raised by treadles to create the shed.
- The chamber of a blast furnace.
- (lacrosse) The long narrow body of a lacrosse stick.
- (slang) An act of sexual intercourse.
- A rotating machine element used to transmit power; a driveshaft
- (by extension) Anything cast or thrown as a spear or javelin.
- a series of connected underground tunnels occupied by rabbits
- an overcrowded residential area
- a colony of rabbits
- (figuratively) A mazelike place of passages and/or rooms in which it's easy to lose oneself; especially one that may be overcrowded.
- A system of burrows in which rabbits live.
- (historical) The right to maintain and hunt an area of small beasts, similar to a free warren, but with certain limitations, such as restricting the right to hunt on parts of the land held by freeholders.
- A place legally authorized for the keeping, breeding and hunting of beasts of warren, especially rabbits.
- (transitive) To bend or move (something) out of a given plane or direction, often the horizontal or vertical.
- (chiefly intransitive, chiefly passive voice) To tend to do or believe something, or move or be moved in a certain direction, away from a point of view, attitude, etc.
- (intransitive) To slope.
- feel favorably disposed or willing
- make receptive or willing towards an action or attitude or belief
- have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined
- be at an angle
- lower or bend (the head or upper body), as in a nod or bow
- bend or turn (one's ear) towards a speaker in order to listen well
- a passage (a pipe or tunnel) through which water or electric wires can pass
- A pipe or channel for conveying water, etc.
- (figurative) A means by which something is transmitted.
- (cellular automata) Any pattern, typically composed of still lifes or oscillators, used to transfer an active region to another location without being destroyed or permanently modified in the process.
- (finance) An investment vehicle that issues short-term commercial paper to finance long-term off–balance sheet bank assets.
- A duct or tube into which electrical cables may be pulled: electrical conduit.
- complex system of paths or tunnels in which it is easy to get lost
- a complex system of interconnecting cavities; concerned with hearing and equilibrium
- (anatomy) A complex structure in the inner ear which contains the organs of hearing and balance, consisting of bony cavities (the bony labyrinth) filled with fluid and lined with sensitive membranes (the membranous labyrinth).
- (zoology) An accessory respiratory organ of certain fish.
- A complicated irregular network of passages or paths, especially underground or covered, in which it is difficult to find one's way.
- Any of various satyrine butterflies of the genus Neope.
- (horticulture) A maze formed by paths separated by high hedges.
- (by extension) Anything complicated and confusing in structure, arrangement, or character.
- A structure similar to a maze, but containing only one path with no branches, as distinguished from a maze which contains multiple branching paths
- (physics, uncountable) Initialism of electron tunneling.
- (countable) Abbreviation of extraterrestrial.
- (travel, aviation, reservation system) Initialism of end transaction or end of transaction (with "transaction" meaning an amendment in the reservation system in this sense).
- (medicine) Abbreviation of endotracheal or endotracheal tube.
- (medicine) Initialism of essential tremor.
- (sports, especially drag racing) Initialism of elapsed time.
- (travel, aviation) Initialism of electronic ticket.
- (music, countable) Initialism of escape tone.
- (uncountable) Initialism of Eastern Time (-5 hours to GMT).
- (mining) The heading or excavation of relatively small dimensions, first made in the driving of a larger tunnel.
- One who flies a kite.
- A pilot light.
- A short plug, sometimes made interchangeable, at the end of a counterbore to guide the tool.
- A person who steers a ship, a helmsman.
- (Australia, road transport, informal) A pilot vehicle.
- (aviation) A person who is in charge of the controls of an aircraft.
- Something serving as a test or trial.
- An instrument for detecting the compass error.
- (telecommunications, often attributive) A tone or signal, usually a single frequency, transmitted over a communications system for control or synchronization purposes.
- A guide book for maritime navigation.
- A person who knows well the depths, shoals, and currents of a harbor or coastal area, who is hired by a vessel to help navigate the harbor or coast.
- (television) A sample episode of a proposed TV series produced to decide if it should be made or not. If approved, typically the first episode of an actual TV series.
- (Australia, road transport) A person authorised to drive such a vehicle during an escort.
- (rail transport) A cowcatcher.
- A guide or escort through an unknown or dangerous area.
- (Europe, motor racing) A racing driver.
- a person qualified to guide ships through difficult waters going into or out of a harbor
- small auxiliary gas burner that provides a flame to ignite a larger gas burner
- something that serves as a model or a basis for making copies
- an inclined metal frame at the front of a locomotive to clear the track
- a program exemplifying a contemplated series; intended to attract sponsors
- someone who is licensed to operate an aircraft in flight
- (transitive) To guide (a vessel) through coastal waters.
- (transitive) To control (an aircraft or watercraft).
- (transitive) To guide or conduct (a person) somewhere.
- (rail transport, of a locomotive) To serve as the leading locomotive on a double-headed train.
- (transitive) To test or have a preliminary trial of (an idea, a new product, television show, etc.)
- act as the navigator in a car, plane, or vessel and plan, direct, plot the path and position of the conveyance
- operate an airplane
- (microscopy) Initialism of scanning tunneling microscope.
- (publishing industry) Initialism of scientific, technical, and medicine.
- (cognitive science) Initialism of short-term memory.
- (computing theory) Initialism of software transactional memory.
- (train control) Initialism of specific transmission module.
- (physical therapy) Initialism of soft tissue mobilization.
- what you can repeat immediately after perceiving it
- a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine
- (mining) A passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft; a driftway; a small subterranean gallery.
- the pervading meaning or tenor
- a process of linguistic change over a period of time
- a general tendency to change (as of opinion)
- the gradual departure from an intended course due to external influences (as a ship or plane)
- a large mass of material that is heaped up by the wind or by water currents
- a force that moves something along
- (mining) Of a boring or a driven tunnel: deviation from the intended course.
- Anything driven at random.
- A slightly tapered tool of steel for enlarging or shaping a hole in metal, by being forced or driven into or through it; a broach.
- Driftwood included in flotsam washed up onto the beach.
- The angle which the line of a ship's motion makes with the meridian, in drifting.
- (mining) In a coal mine, a heading driven for exploration or ventilation.
- (cricket) A sideways movement of the ball through the air, when bowled by a spin bowler.
- (mining) A heading driven through a seam of coal.
- (uncountable, film) The situation where a performer gradually and unintentionally moves from their proper location within the scene.
- That which is driven, forced, or urged along.
- A tool used to insert or extract a removable pin made of metal or hardwood, for the purpose of aligning and/or securing two pieces of material together.
- In the New Forest National Park, UK, the bi-annual round-up of wild ponies in order to sell them.
- The distance through which a current flows in a given time.
- (architecture) The horizontal thrust or pressure of an arch or vault upon the abutments.
- A deviation from the line of fire, peculiar to obloid projectiles.
- The place in a deep-waisted vessel where the sheer is raised and the rail is cut off, and usually terminated with a scroll, or driftpiece.
- (mining) A sloping winze or road to the surface, for purposes of haulage.
- (mining) An adit or tunnel driven forward for purposes of exploration or exploitation; generally eventually to a dead end.
- A mass of matter which has been driven or forced onward together in a body, or thrown together in a heap, etc., especially by wind or water.
- The difference between the size of a bolt and the hole into which it is driven, or between the circumference of a hoop and that of the mast on which it is to be driven.
- The tendency of an act, argument, course of conduct, or the like; object aimed at or intended; intention; hence, also, import or meaning of a sentence or discourse; aim.
- Course or direction along which anything is driven; setting.
- The distance between the two blocks of a tackle.
- A place (a ford) along a river where the water is shallow enough to permit crossing to the opposite side.
- The act or motion of drifting; the force which impels or drives; an overpowering influence or impulse.
- A drove or flock, as of cattle, sheep, birds.
- A tool used to pack down the composition contained in a rocket, or like firework.
- A collection of loose earth and rocks, or boulders, which have been distributed over large portions of the earth's surface, especially in latitudes north of forty degrees, by the retreat of continental glaciers, such as that which buries former river valleys and creates young river valleys.
- The distance a vessel is carried off from her desired course by the wind, currents, or other causes.
- Slow, cumulative change.
- (uncountable) Minor deviation of audio or video playback from its correct speed.
- move in an unhurried fashion
- live unhurriedly, irresponsibly, or freely
- drive slowly and far afield for grazing
- vary or move from a fixed point or course
- be piled up in banks or heaps by the force of wind or a current
- move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment
- be in motion due to some air or water current
- cause to be carried by a current
- wander from a direct course or at random
- be subject to fluctuation
- (intransitive) To accumulate in heaps by the force of wind; to be driven into heaps.
- (transitive) To drive into heaps.
- (transitive) To drive or carry, as currents do a floating body.
- (automotive) To oversteer a vehicle, causing loss of traction, while maintaining control from entry to exit of a corner. See Drifting (motorsport).
- (transitive, engineering) To enlarge or shape, as a hole, with a drift.
- (intransitive) To deviate gently from the intended direction of travel.
- (intransitive) To move haphazardly without any destination.
- (mining, US) To make a drift; to examine a vein or ledge for the purpose of ascertaining the presence of metals or ores; to follow a vein; to prospect.
- (intransitive) To move slowly, especially pushed by currents of water, air, etc.
- a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine
- a porch along the outside of a building (sometimes partly enclosed)
- narrow recessed balcony area along an upper floor on the interior of a building; usually marked by a colonnade
- a covered corridor (especially one extending along the wall of a building and supported with arches or columns)
- spectators at a golf or tennis match
- a room or series of rooms where works of art are exhibited
- a long usually narrow room used for some specific purpose
- (computing) A browsable collection of images, font styles, etc.
- (entomology) The boring trails produced by an insect in wood.
- Ellipsis of gallery forest.
- An institution, building, or room for the exhibition and conservation of important objects, especially works of art.
- A roofed promenade, especially one extending along the wall of a building and supported by arches or columns on the outer side.
- A part of a monocle—a projection off the ring holding the lens—which helps secure the monocle in the eye socket.
- (automotive) A channel that carries engine oil to parts of the engine that need lubrication, such as the main bearings.
- (fortification) A covered passage cut through the earth or masonry.
- The uppermost seating area projecting from the rear or side walls of a theater, concert hall, or auditorium.
- (mining) A level or drive in a mine.
- (law) The part of a courtroom, often elevated and in the rear, where seating for the public audience is facilitated during trial.
- (by extension, metonymic) The spectators at an event, collectively.
- A part of a light fixture, forming part of its structure and often providing the mounting for the diffuser.
- An establishment that buys, sells, and displays works of art.
- (television) The production control room.
- a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine
- a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about
- the direction or path along which something moves or along which it lies
- (flags) A strip of material at the hoist end of a flag, used for attaching the flag to its halyard.
- (masonry) The end of a stone or brick which is presented outward.
- Material for the heads of casks, barrels, etc.
- The title or topic of a document, article, chapter, or of a section thereof.
- (nautical and aeronautical) The direction into which a seagoing or airborne vessel's bow is pointing (apparent heading) and/or the direction into which it is actually moving relative to the ground (true heading)
- (sewing) The extension of a line ruffling above the line of stitch.
- (mining) A gallery, drift, or adit in a mine, particularly one driving through a solid body of coal or ore; also, the end of a drift or gallery; the vein above a drift.
- (mining) A passage supplying ventilation into a mine tunnel or other underground facility.
- (architecture) A vertical (or near vertical) opening (shaft) running from a courtyard to the sky, thus allowing air to circulate to high-rise apartments or offices.
- (manufacturing) A device used for handling winding reels in the processing of web-fed materials, such as in continuous-process printing presses.
- an underground tunnel or passage enabling pedestrians to cross a road or railway
- an electric railway operating below the surface of the ground (usually in a city)
- (Canada, US) A rapid transit system, regardless of the elevation of its right of way; a metro system.
- (Canada, US, Scotland, South Africa) A train that runs on such an underground railway.
- An underground route for creatures (e.g. bats).
- (Canada, US, Scotland, South Africa) An underground railway, especially for mass transit of people in urban areas.
- (British) An underground walkway, tunnel for pedestrians (called pedestrian underpass in US).
- An underground route for pipes, sewers, etc.
- (mining) A tunnel for drawing spent air away from the working face of a mine.
- The downstream gate in the lock on a canal or river, or in an irrigation system.
- (automotive) A hinged board or hatch at the rear of a vehicle that can be lowered for loading and unloading.
- (US) Ellipsis of tailgate party.
- (especially British) The hinged rear door of a hatchback.
- a gate at the rear of a vehicle; can be lowered for loading
- (finance, of a broker) To privately purchase or sell a security immediately after trading in the same security for a client.
- To follow another person through access control on their access, rather than on one’s own credentials, especially when entering a door controlled by a card reader.
- (automotive, intransitive, transitive) To drive dangerously close behind another vehicle.
- (US, intransitive) To have a tailgate party.
- follow at a dangerously close distance
- One of the entrances to a system of prairie dog tunnels.
- (mining, slang) A mine worked by fewer than fifteen miners, which is small enough that some safety laws do not apply.
- (idiomatic, derogatory) A place regarded as fit only for dogs: a horrid, mean habitation.
- A hole that was dug by a dog.
- A type of small schooner designed in the 19th century to navigate in shallow waters and to conduct coastal shipping in and out of doghole ports.
- A small, shallow bay or inlet, usually surrounded by high cliffs, that is accessible only by smaller boats.
- An underground bolthole dug to hide from enemy soldiers.
- Such a small mine that is dug independently by one or a few miners, often clandestinely and illegally: a bootleg mine.
- A hole drilled for the placement of a bench dog.
- (mining) An excavated area that acts as an access hole or that connects different parts of a mine.
- A tiny, uncomfortable hole or cell, usually too small to stand in, in which prisoners are confined as punishment.
- A short low bridge of similar construction.
- A piece of roughly dressed timber with one face finished flat (by either hewing or sawing).
- A split log or heavy slab of timber with the face smoothed, used especially for flooring but also for log cabin walls, piers, or plank roads.
- A short, upright piece of timber in framing; a short post; an intermediate stud.
- A cask of a certain size; its volume used as a measure of capacity varying from 72 to 120 gallons.
- A figured stamp, die, or punch, used by goldsmiths, cutlers, etc.
- A walkway or short, low footbridge over wet ground constructed with such timbers, made by laying one or more planks or dressed timbers over sills set directly on the ground.
- a passageway under a curved masonry construction
- a curved bony structure supporting or enclosing organs (especially the inner sides of the feet)
- a curved shape in the vertical plane that spans an opening
- (architecture) a masonry construction (usually curved) for spanning an opening and supporting the weight above it
- Any place covered by an arch; an archway.
- (architecture) An architectural element having the shape of an arch
- (anatomy) The curved part of the bottom of a foot.
- (video games) Synonym of god (“person who owns and runs a multi-user dungeon”).
- An inverted U shape.
- (electronics, operating systems) An architecture; a computer architecture or instruction set architecture.
- A natural arch-shaped opening in a rock mass.
- An arch-shaped arrangement of trapezoidal stones, designed to redistribute downward force outward.
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- (figurative) Anything that resembles a tunnel.
- a passageway through or under something, usually underground (especially one for trains or cars)
- An underground or underwater passage.
- The opening of a chimney for the passage of smoke; a flue.
- (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.
- 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.
- A hole in the ground made by an animal, a burrow.
- (computing, networking) A wrapper for a protocol that cannot otherwise be used because it is unsupported, blocked, or insecure.
- A passage through or under some obstacle.
- a hole made by an animal, usually for shelter
- (intransitive) To dig a tunnel.
- (physics) To undergo the quantum-mechanical phenomenon where a particle penetrates through a barrier that it classically cannot surmount.
- (transitive) To make a tunnel through or under something; to burrow.
- (transitive, medicine) To insert a catheter into a vein to allow long-term use.
- (computing, networking) To transmit something through a tunnel (wrapper for an insecure or unsupported protocol).
- move through by or as by digging
- force a way through