countermine
tunnellike
cross-tunnel
summit tunnel
tunnelway
trenchline
countertrench
subtunnel
midfeather
tunnel
perforator
trench
sidetrack
intratunnel
counterline
tunnel rat
fire trench
dig in
loophole
intertunnel
headframe
salient
manhole
rabbit warren
burrow
kill
mine
traverse
tunneling
shaft
warren
drift
glory hole
push back
gallery
breakthrough
rollback
tunneler
break
heading
resistance
cut and cover
airshaft
tunnelable
raise borer
battle line
Eurotunnel
cut-and-cover
barricade
trou-de-loup
tunnelly
grip
infiltrate
entrenchment
interdiction
pass through
retreat
incline
fire bay
speluncar
undergang
berry
cuniculate
exfiltration
silo
cunette
bridgehead
éboulement
euendolith
subterrain
underway
trench warfare
murder hole
road
earthscraper
exit
trenchwork
underkeep
mill
no man's land
pilot
subterraneously
fort
enemy line
sortie
railhead
mouseholing
unfriendly
crawlway
foe
hostile
tunnellike
intratunnel
intertunnel
tunnelable
cut-and-cover
tunnelly
speluncar
cuniculate
subterraneously
countermine
cross-tunnel
summit tunnel
tunnelway
trenchline
countertrench
subtunnel
midfeather
perforator
sidetrack
counterline
tunnel rat
fire trench
loophole
headframe
salient
manhole
rabbit warren
kill
mine
traverse
tunneling
shaft
warren
drift
glory hole
push back
gallery
breakthrough
rollback
tunneler
heading
tunnel
resistance
cut and cover
airshaft
raise borer
battle line
barricade
trou-de-loup
entrenchment
interdiction
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incline
fire bay
undergang
berry
exfiltration
silo
cunette
bridgehead
éboulement
euendolith
subterrain
underway
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murder hole
road
earthscraper
exit
trenchwork
underkeep
mill
no man's land
pilot
fort
enemy line
sortie
railhead
mouseholing
unfriendly
crawlway
foe
hostile
burrow
tunnel
trench
dig in
burrow
break
grip
infiltrate
pass through
noun
verb
- To dig a tunnel.
- To make a tunnel through or under something; to burrow.
- To transmit something through a tunnel (wrapper for insecure or unsupported protocol).
- To insert a catheter into a vein to allow long-term use.
- To undergo the quantum-mechanical phenomenon where a particle penetrates through a barrier that it classically cannot surmount.
noun
- An underground or underwater passage.
- A passage through or under some obstacle.
- Anything that resembles a tunnel.
- A hole in the ground made by an animal, a burrow.
- 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.
- The opening of a chimney for the passage of smoke; a flue.
- A wrapper for a protocol that cannot otherwise be used because it is unsupported, blocked, or insecure.
- 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.
verb
- To excavate an elongated pit for protection of soldiers and or equipment, usually perpendicular to the line of sight toward the enemy.
- To dig or cultivate very deeply, usually by digging parallel contiguous trenches in succession, filling each from the next.
- To have direction; to aim or tend.
- To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, etc.
- To cut furrows or ditches in.
- To excavate an elongated and often narrow pit.
- To invade, especially with regard to the rights or the exclusive authority of another; to encroach.
noun
noun
- A smaller tunnel or well drilled as an auxiliary off a main tunnel or well.
- An alternate train of thought, issue, topic, or activity, that is a deviation or distraction from the topic at hand or central activity, and secondary or subordinate in importance or effectiveness.
- A second, relatively short length of track just to the side of a railroad track, joined to the main track by switches at one or both ends, used either for unloading freight, or to allow two trains on a same track to meet (opposite directions) or pass (same direction); a railroad siding.
- Any auxiliary railroad track, as differentiated from a siding, that runs adjacent to the main track.
verb
- To deviate briefly from the topic at hand.
- To sideline; to push aside; to divert or distract from, reducing (something) to a secondary or subordinate position.
- To divert (a locomotive or train) on to a lesser used track in order to allow other trains to pass.
- To divert or distract (someone) from a main issue or course of action with an alternate or less relevant topic or activity; or, to use deliberate trickery or sly wordplay when talking to (a person) in order to avoid discussion of a subject.
adj
noun
- the destruction of an enemy plane or ship or tank or missile
- the act of terminating a life
- the body of an animal, or bodies of animals, killed by a person or another animal
verb
- cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly
- thwart the passage of
- end or extinguish by forceful means
- be fatal
- be the source of great pain for
- overwhelm with hilarity, pleasure, or admiration
- hit with so much force as to make a return impossible, in racket games
- hit with great force
- deprive of life
- cause the death of, without intention
- drink down entirely
- mark for deletion, rub off, or erase
- tire out completely
- cause to cease operating
- destroy a vitally essential quality of or in
noun
- A passage dug toward or underneath enemy lines, which is then packed with explosives.
- Any source of wealth or resources.
- A type of firework that explodes on the ground, shooting sparks upward.
- The cavity made by a caterpillar while feeding inside a leaf.
- An excavation from which ore or solid minerals are taken, especially one consisting of underground tunnels.
- A device intended to explode when stepped upon or touched, or when approached by a ship, vehicle, or person.
- A machine or network of machines used to extract units of a cryptocurrency.
pron
- Used absolutely, set off from the sentence.
- Used predicatively.
- Used substantively, with an implied noun.
- Used otherwise not directly before the possessed noun.
verb
- To sow mines (the explosive devices) in (an area).
- To dig away, or otherwise remove, the substratum or foundation of; to lay a mine under; to sap; to undermine.
- To dig a tunnel or hole; to burrow in the earth.
- To earn new units of cryptocurrency by doing certain calculations.
- To pick one's nose.
- To damage (a vehicle or ship) with a mine (an explosive device).
- To ruin or destroy by slow degrees or secret means.
- To dig into, for ore or metal.
- To remove (rock or ore) from the ground.
noun
- In trench warfare, a defensive trench built to prevent enfilade.
- A formal denial of some matter of fact alleged by the opposite party in any stage of the pleadings. The technical words introducing a traverse are absque hoc ("without this", i.e. without what follows).
- Something that thwarts or obstructs.
- The zigzag course or courses made by a ship in passing from one place to another; a compound course.
- A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building.
- A route used in mountaineering, specifically rock climbing, in which the descent occurs by a different route than the ascent.
- A series of points, with angles and distances measured between, traveled around a subject, usually for use as "control" i.e. angular reference system for later surveying work.
- A line lying across a figure or other lines; a transversal.
- A traverse board.
adj
adv
verb
- To use the motions of opposition or counteraction.
- To travel across, often under difficult conditions.
- To lay in a cross direction; to cross.
- To (make a cutting, an incline) across the gradients of a sloped face at safe rate.
- To plane in a direction across the grain of the wood.
- To deny formally.
- To visit all parts of; to explore thoroughly.
- To climb or descend a steep hill at a wide angle (relative to the slope).
- To rotate a gun around a vertical axis to bear upon a military target.
- To act against; to thwart or obstruct.
- To pass over and view; to survey carefully.
noun
- The act of burrowing a tunnel.
- The practice of exploring tunnel.
- A type of fraud where assets and profits are transferred out of firms for the benefit of those who control them.
- The quantum mechanical passing of a particle through an energy barrier.
- A feature of the file system that allows files to preserve certain properties, such as creation date, even after being deleted and recreated.
noun
- a long vertical passage sunk into the earth, as for a mine or tunnel
- a line that forms the length of an arrow pointer
- an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect
- a long rod or pole (especially the handle of an implement or the body of a weapon like a spear or arrow)
- a column of light (as from a beacon)
- the main (mid) section of a long bone
- obscene terms for penis
- a long pointed rod used as a tool or weapon
- a vertical passageway through a building (as for an elevator)
- (architecture) upright consisting of the vertical part of a column
- a revolving rod that transmits power or motion
- the hollow spine of a feather
verb
noun
- a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine
- a force that moves something along
- the gradual departure from an intended course due to external influences (as a ship or plane)
- a process of linguistic change over a period of time
- a large mass of material that is heaped up by the wind or by water currents
- a general tendency to change (as of opinion)
- the pervading meaning or tenor
verb
- be in motion due to some air or water current
- wander from a direct course or at random
- move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment
- vary or move from a fixed point or course
- live unhurriedly, irresponsibly, or freely
- move in an unhurried fashion
- cause to be carried by a current
- drive slowly and far afield for grazing
- be subject to fluctuation
- be piled up in banks or heaps by the force of wind or a current
noun
- A military trench.
- An especially good place to fish, a particularly rich fishing spot.
- A bell-mouth spillway: a spillway (a structure in the reservoir above a dam that allows overflowing water to be released in a controlled fashion) that is shaped like an upside-down bell, thereby giving the appearance of a hole in the surface of the water.
- A hole in a mineshaft where an orebody is mined upwards until it breaks through the surface into the open air.
- A deep built-in cupboard under the eaves or stairs of a house used for general storage, particularly of unrelated or unwanted items stored in some disorder.
- The stokehold on a coal-burning tramp steamer.
- An excavation into the sea floor designed to protect the wellhead equipment installed at the surface of a petroleum well from icebergs or pack ice.
- The stewards' mess on a passenger liner.
- A hole in a screen or wall big enough to allow an erect penis to be stuck through, made to facilitate anonymous sex with another person.
- A hole in the side of a furnace used to heat glass held on a metal rod.
- A generally untidy place.
noun
- a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine
- spectators at a golf or tennis match
- a porch along the outside of a building (sometimes partly enclosed)
- a room or series of rooms where works of art are exhibited
- a long usually narrow room used for some specific purpose
- a covered corridor (especially one extending along the wall of a building and supported with arches or columns)
- narrow recessed balcony area along an upper floor on the interior of a building; usually marked by a colonnade
noun
- An advance through and past enemy lines.
- The penetration of a separating wall or the remaining distance to an adjacent hollow (a crosscut in mining) or between two parts of a tunnel build from both ends; knockthrough.
- The penetration of the opposition's defence.
- Any major progress; such as a great innovation or discovery that overcomes a significant obstacle.
adj
- Involving the contraction of a disease by a person with a decreased susceptibility, such as a person who has been vaccinated to help prevent that disease.
- Characterized by major progress or overcoming some obstacle.
- The emergence or one or more symptoms of a condition despite medication or other medical treatment.
verb
- make a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or one's own by quitting or fleeing
- terminate or end
- become separated into pieces or fragments
- render inoperable or ineffective
- ruin completely
- destroy the integrity of; usually by force; cause to separate into pieces or fragments
- act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
- move away or escape suddenly
- scatter or part
- force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up
- prevent completion
- enter someone's (virtual or real) property in an unauthorized manner, usually with the intent to steal or commit a violent act
- make submissive, obedient, or useful
- fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns
- surpass in excellence
- make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
- come into being
- stop operating or functioning
- interrupt a continued activity
- curl over and fall apart in surf or foam, of waves
- lessen in force or effect
- be broken in
- come to an end
- vary or interrupt a uniformity or continuity
- cause to give up a habit
- give up
- come forth or begin from a state of latency
- happen or take place
- cause the failure or ruin of
- invalidate by judicial action
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- assign to a lower position; reduce in rank
- reduce to bankruptcy
- change directions suddenly
- emerge from the surface of a body of water
- break down, literally or metaphorically
- do a break dance
- exchange for smaller units of money
- destroy the completeness of a set of related items
- make the opening shot that scatters the balls
- separate from a clinch, in boxing
- go to pieces
- break a piece from a whole
- become punctured or penetrated
- pierce or penetrate
- be released or become known; of news
- cease an action temporarily
- interrupt the flow of current in
- undergo breaking
- find a flaw in
- find the solution or key to
- change suddenly from one tone quality or register to another
- happen
- become fractured; break or crack on the surface only
- crack; of the male voice in puberty
- fall sharply
- fracture a bone of
- diminish or discontinue abruptly
- weaken or destroy in spirit or body
noun
- some abrupt occurrence that interrupts an ongoing activity
- an unexpected piece of good luck
- (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
- a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
- a pause from doing something (as work)
- the act of breaking something
- a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
- breaking of hard tissue such as bone
- the occurrence of breaking
- an abrupt change in the tone or register of the voice (as at puberty or due to emotion)
- the opening shot that scatters the balls in billiards or pool
- (tennis) a score consisting of winning a game when your opponent was serving
- an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity
- a sudden dash
- any frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or spare
- an escape from jail
noun
- the military action of resisting the enemy's advance
- the action of opposing something that you disapprove or disagree with
- any mechanical force that tends to retard or oppose motion
- a material's opposition to the flow of electric current; measured in ohms
- (medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist disease
- the capacity of an organism to defend itself against harmful environmental agents
- a secret group organized to overthrow a government or occupation force
- the degree of unresponsiveness of a disease-causing microorganism to antibiotics or other drugs (as in penicillin-resistant bacteria)
- (psychiatry) an unwillingness to bring repressed feelings into conscious awareness
- an electrical device that resists the flow of electrical current
- group action in opposition to those in power
noun
- A passage supplying ventilation into a mine tunnel or other underground facility.
- 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.
- A device used for handling winding reels in the processing of web-fed materials, such as in continuous-process printing presses.
noun
- A line of battle.
- Any of those parts of a contest which, as a result of strategic decisions on both sides, are most closely fought and will likely determine the contest's course and outcome.
- The notional line on either side of which opposing forces are arrayed, and at which they meet in battle; a fortified line, short of the line where battle is expected, and behind which forces are arrayed; a forward line of infantry or other force, prepared for battle.
name
verb
- To trench; to drain.
- Of an emotion or situation: to have a strong effect upon.
- To firmly hold the attention of.
- To take hold of, particularly with the hand.
noun
- A person responsible for handling equipment on the set.
- An apparatus attached to a car for clutching a traction cable.
- A lot of something.
- A small travelling-bag or gripsack.
- A helpful, interesting, admirable, or inspiring person.
- Control, power or mastery over someone or something; a tenacious grasp; a holding fast.
- A channel cut through a grass verge (especially for the purpose of draining water away from the highway).
- A hold or way of holding, particularly with the hand.
- A long time.
- As much as one can hold in a hand; a handful.
- A small ditch or trench; a channel to carry off water or other liquid; a drain.
- A handle or other place to grip.
- A device for grasping or holding fast to something.
- Assistance; help or encouragement.
- A visual component on a window etc. enabling it to be resized and/or moved.
noun
- Withdrawal by military force from a dangerous position or from enemy attack.
- A peaceful, quiet place affording privacy or security.
- The act of reversing direction and receding from a forward position.
- A bugle call or drumbeat signaling the lowering of the flag at sunset, as on a military base.
- A military ceremony to lower the flag.
- The move of a piece from a threatened position.
- A period of retirement, seclusion, or solitude.
- A period of meditation, prayer or study.
- The act of pulling back or withdrawing, as from something dangerous, or unpleasant.
- A signal for a military withdrawal.
verb
noun
- An excavation; a military mine.
- A burrow, especially a rabbit's burrow.
- A small succulent fruit, of any one of many varieties.
- A soft fruit which develops from a single ovary and contains seeds not encased in pits.
- A police car.
- A mound; a barrow.
- A coffee bean.
- One of the ova or eggs of a fish.
verb
noun
- The process of exiting an area (usually behind enemy lines or in enemy territory).
- Covert extraction of data.
- A filtering out (usually movement of a substance through a barrier).
- A method for managing storm water runoff.
- A gradual movement of a substance to exterior (as through cell membrane to extracellular fluid or medium).
noun
- An underground bunker used to hold missiles which may be launched.
- An organizational unit that has poor interaction with other units, negatively affecting overall performance.
- A structure in the information system that is poorly networked with other structures, with data exchange hampered.
- In Microsoft Windows operating systems, a kernel object for isolating groups of threads.
- A self-enclosed group of like-minded individuals.
- A vertical building, usually cylindrical, used for the production of silage.
- from the shape, a building used for the storage of grain.
verb
noun
- An area of ground on the enemy's side of a river or other obstacle, especially one that needs to be taken and defended in order to secure an advance.
- An area around the end of a bridge.
- A fortification around the end of a bridge.
- Either of the two atoms in different parts of a molecule that are connected by a bridge of two or more other atoms
noun
- An underground tunnel in a mine.
- A partly sheltered area of water near a shore in which vessels may ride at anchor; a roadstead.
- A railway or (UK, rail transport) a single railway track.
- A path chosen in life or career.
- A way or route.
- 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.
- Roads in general as a means of travel, especially by motor vehicle.
adj
noun
- An opening or passage through which one can go from inside a place (such as a building, a room, or a vehicle) to the outside; an egress.
- A minor road (such as a ramp or slip road) which is used to leave a major road (such as an expressway, highway, or motorway).
- An act of going out or going away, or leaving; a departure.
- The act of departing from life; death.
- The action of an actor leaving a scene or the stage.
verb
- To depart from life; to die.
- To depart from or leave (a place or situation).
- To leave a scene or depart from a stage.
- Used as a stage direction for an actor: to leave the scene or stage.
- To go out or go away from a place or situation; to depart, to leave.
- To give up the lead.
- To alight or disembark from a vehicle.
- To end or terminate (a program, subroutine, etc.)
noun
- A passage underground through which ore is shot.
- A milling machine for machining of solid metal, wood, or plastic.
- An engine.
- An obsolete coin worth one thousandth of a US dollar, or one tenth of a cent.
- One thousandth part, particularly in millage rates of property tax.
- A line of three matching pieces in nine men's morris and related games.
- A manufacturing plant for paper, steel, textiles, etc.
- A prison treadmill.
- A strategy centered on depleting the opponent's deck.
- A machine used for expelling the juice, sap, etc., from vegetable tissues by pressure, or by pressure in combination with a grinding, or cutting process.
- An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained.
- A milling cutter.
- Discarding a card from one's deck.
- A boxing match, fistfight.
- An institution awarding educational certificates not officially recognised
- A grinding apparatus for substances such as grains, seeds, etc.
- A building housing such a plant.
- A typewriter used to transcribe messages received.
- A machine for grinding and polishing.
- The building housing such a grinding apparatus.
- The raised or ridged edge or surface made in milling anything, such as a coin or screw.
- A hardened steel roller with a design in relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of the design in a softer metal, such as copper.
- An establishment that handles a certain type of situation or procedure routinely, or produces large quantities of an item without much regard to quality, such as a divorce mill, a puppy mill, etc.
verb
- To take part in a fistfight; to box.
- To move (a card) from a deck to the discard pile.
- To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth.
- To make (drinking chocolate) frothy, as by churning.
- To move about in an aimless fashion.
- To beat; to pound.
- To grind or otherwise process in a mill or other machine.
- To swim suddenly in a new direction.
- To fill (a winze or interior incline) with broken ore, to be drawn out at the bottom.
- To destroy (a card) due to having a full hand.
- To swim underwater.
- To engrave one or more grooves or a pattern around the edge of (a cylindrical object such as a coin).
- To shape, polish, dress or finish using a machine.
- To undergo hulling.
- To roll (steel, etc.) into bars.
- To cause to mill, or circle around.
noun
- The ground between trenches where a soldier from either side would be easily targeted.
- Tracts of uninhabited territory close to the Iron Curtain.
- The area between the backcourt and the space close to the net, from which it is difficult to return the ball.
- Land not claimed by any recognized sovereign state; terra nullius.
- Part of a prison, hospital complex, etc. where people are not normally allowed to go.
- A place where no one can or should be.
- The stretch of land between the border posts of two contiguous sovereign states, sometimes separated by great distance.
- The fibrous sheath of the flexor tendons of the hand, specifically in the zone from the distal palmar crease to the proximal interphalangeal joint.
- A space amidships used to keep blocks, ropes, etc.; a space on a ship belonging to no one in particular to care for.
noun
- The heading or excavation of relatively small dimensions, first made in the driving of a larger tunnel.
- A person who steers a ship, a helmsman.
- A pilot light.
- A short plug, sometimes made interchangeable, at the end of a counterbore to guide the tool.
- A guide book for maritime navigation.
- A racing driver.
- An instrument for detecting the compass error.
- A person authorised to drive such a vehicle during an escort.
- Something serving as a test or trial.
- 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.
- A person who is in charge of the controls of an aircraft.
- One who flies a kite.
- A cowcatcher.
- A person who knows well the depths and currents of a harbor or coastal area, who is hired by a vessel to help navigate the harbor or coast.
- A guide or escort through an unknown or dangerous area.
- A pilot vehicle.
verb
- To guide (a vessel) through coastal waters.
- To serve as the leading locomotive on a double-headed train.
- To control (an aircraft or watercraft).
- To test or have a preliminary trial of (an idea, a new product, etc.)
adj
noun
- An attack made by troops from a besieged position; a sally.
- An operational flight carried out by a spacecraft involving a return to Earth.
- An operational flight carried out by a single military aircraft.
- An act of venturing out to do a task, etc.
- An act of trying to enter a new field of activity.
- An attacking move.
- Synonym of sally port (“an entry to or opening into a fortification to enable a sally”)
- A series of aerial photographs taken during the flight of an aircraft; (by extension) a photography session.
verb
noun
- An area of hostile territory at the end of a rail line that, when captured, serves for the continuous movement into position of further troops and material.
- A point on a railway system where goods (or passengers) are loaded, unloaded or transferred to other transport.
- The top surface (head) of a rail.
- The furthest point on a railroad/railway under construction to which rails have been laid.
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