(n.) A hollow place in the earth, either natural or artificial; a subterraneous cavity; a cavern; a den.
(n.) Any hollow place, or part; a cavity.
(n.) To make hollow; to scoop out.
(v. i.) To dwell in a cave.
(v. i.) To fall in or down; as, the sand bank caved. Hence (Slang), to retreat from a position; to give way; to yield in a disputed matter.
Example Sentences:
(1) Evidence is presented in support of the hypothesis that fresh bat guano serves as a means of pathogenic fungi dissemination in caves.
(2) Biogastrone treatment influences the pain in a higher per cent as compared with Caved-S and oxyferroscorbon (p greater then 0.05), whereas regards the rest of the clinical symptoms -- no statistically significant difference was established.
(3) The prerequisite for all champions is the refusal to cave in, so City's equaliser with only three minutes remaining was pleasing.
(4) It is the Altamira cave, not the Altimira cave as we had it.
(5) But 30 minutes before takeoff on our private jet – like a top-end Lexus limo with wings – actress Rosamund Pike has heroically stepped in for the year's hot meal ticket: an El Bulli supper, pitch perfect for a selection of rare champagne, devised by Adrià with Richard Geoffroy, Dom Pérignon's effervescent chef de cave.
(6) On Thursday, conservative analyst Ross Douthat wrote: “A party whose leading factions often seemed incapable of budging from 1980s-era dogma suddenly caved completely.” On Friday, former top Barack Obama strategist David Axelrod tweeted : “The Day After: seems as if @GOP establishment is measuring @realDonaldTrump as a moldable vessel.
(7) Cave added that her organisation was engaged in a freedom of information battle with Cabinet Office minister Mark Harper, who is overseeing the coalition's plans to introduce a lobbying register.
(8) Using Koufonissi as a base, there are daily excursions by caique and ferry to nearby islands, including Iraklia, where walkers can follow a pilgrims' trail across the high lands to spectacular St John's Cave, carved into a limestone cliff.
(9) The Cave is a mining scene complete with treasure chest, giant spider, zombie and a “Steve” minifigure.
(10) So it will have been a wrench for Jez, and his embattled entourage, to have to “cave in”, as the Guardian’s report put it, and suspend the MP from the party after David Cameron (who really should leave the rough stuff to the rough end of the trade) had taunted him at PMQs for not acting sooner when the Guido Fawkes blog republished her ugly comments and the Mail on Sunday got out its trumpet.
(11) But in recent years, directors have sought out the likes of Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood ( There Will Be Blood ), the Chemical Brothers ( Hanna ) and Nick Cave ( The Assassination of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford ).
(12) And the confirmation that Greece won't get its bailout tranche unless its debt development is deemed sustainable means that Brussels has caved into IMF demands.
(13) In Pilgrim's Progress, Christian's path passes a cave in which two giants once dwelled.
(14) Many of the bodies are mummified, most of them were not interred, but deposited in caves.
(15) In the 20 years he was away, Malick moved to Paris and travelled the world, exploring caves in Nepal and the Alps as well as studying ancient civilisations and visiting Greece.
(16) Given that I'm trying to actually do some work while this whole thing is going on I'm not sure how successful I'll be before I cave in and *cough* go down the pub.
(17) The final band, at gone 4am, was Eigg's own metal band called, naturally, Massacre Cave.
(18) Only 11 cases of paratrigeminal epidermoid, including the cases localized in the Meckel's cave have been reported in the past literatures (Table 1).
(19) You see a cave with a hole.” She recovered thanks to god’s grace and good treatment at the government Hastings hospital, she said, but to her great sadness, her nine-year-old son, Clifford, will not come near her for fear.
(20) She and her friends recalled that this land was occupied by “cave-houses” – homes built from holes in the rock – in the 1950s.
Tunnel
Definition:
(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.
(n. .) The opening of a chimney for the passage of smoke; a flue; a funnel.
(n. .) 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.
(n. .) 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.
(v. t.) To form into a tunnel, or funnel, or to form like a tunnel; as, to tunnel fibrous plants into nests.
(v. t.) To catch in a tunnel net.
(v. t.) To make an opening, or a passageway, through or under; as, to tunnel a mountain; to tunnel a river.
Example Sentences:
(1) When the Tunnel closed, Hardee decamped in 1991 to Up The Creek - a slightly better behaved venue in nearby Greenwich, which Hardee described as "the Tunnel with A-levels".
(2) Tunnel-like formations at different depths of the oral epithelium contained higher numbers of bacteria than those seen on the adjacent oral surface.
(3) The various theories of carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) are reviewed.
(4) Tension in flexor tendons during wrist flexion may play a role in otherwise unexplained instances of the carpal tunnel syndrome.
(5) The results of the Tinel percussion test, the Phalen wrist-flexion test, and the new test were evaluated in thirty-one patients (forty-six hands) in whom the presence of carpal tunnel syndrome had been proved electrodiagnostically, as well as in a control group of fifty subjects.
(6) Eighteen patients with various mucopolysaccharidoses or mucolipidosis III were studied electrophysiologically to determine the presence or absence of carpal tunnel syndrome.
(7) Tenosynovial biopsy specimens from 177 wrists were obtained from patients at carpal tunnel release, and a control group of 19 specimens was also obtained.
(8) Headache and vertigo were not linked with exposure to vibration in forestry and a significant part of the numbness reported may be due to the carpal tunnel syndrome.
(9) Carpal tunnel syndrome is the most common and best known of the compression neuropathies in the upper extremity.
(10) Guzmán was sent to Altiplano high-security prison, 56 miles outside Mexico City, but in July 2015, he absconded again, squeezing through a hole in his shower floor then fleeing on a modified motorbike through a mile-long tunnel fitted with lights and a ventilation system.
(11) The paper examines a microsurgical technique of neurolysis and epineurotomy in the treatment of the carpal tunnel syndrome.
(12) MRI allowed the direct demonstration of carpal tunnel abnormalities in 8 cases, while abnormal findings in the median nerve were observed in 18 patients.
(13) Eight hundred twenty-one median nerves were retrospectively and prospectively reviewed for variations during operations to treat carpal tunnel syndrome.
(14) A vibration-rotation-tunneling band of the perdeuterated cluster has been measured near 89.6 wave numbers by tunable far infrared laser absorption spectroscopy.
(15) These two electrophysiological abnormalities are indicative of a focal segmental demyelination as the primary pathological process in tarsal tunnel syndrome.
(16) The adaptive value of sound signal characteristics for transmission in the underground tunnel ecotope was tested using tunnels of the solitary territorial subterranean mole rats.
(17) Plasma cortisol concentrations were highest in fish exposed to both the combined stress of WSF exposure and of forced swimming in a stamina tunnel.
(18) "A typical day in London would be: wake up hungover, try to get some breakfast in you," he says, barrelling along green-tunnelled country lanes through – as he puts it in Jerusalem – the "wild garlic and May blossom" that mean winter is over.
(19) A high origin of the right coronary artery or location of the left coronary artery adjacent to a pulmonary cusp or branch may complicate the tunnel-type repair.
(20) The wrists of 16 normal volunteers were examined via high-resolution sonography with special reference to the carpal tunnel.