(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.
Underpass
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Diego Felipe Becerra was spray-painting his signature wide-eyed Felix the Cat image on the walls of an underpass when he was killed.
(2) In Croydon, south London, a pedestrian underpass will be turned into an emergency pond to hold hundreds of thousands of litres of floodwater threatening homes and businesses.
(3) Overnight, hundreds of new pieces adorned the walls of the underpass where Bieber had left his mark.
(4) Even the parameters of Princess Diana's death in a Parisian underpass in 1997 had been sketched out, to some degree, in Crash.
(5) Continue down onto Govan Mbeki Street, past vendors plying their trade, colossal highways and underpasses, all the while weaving past cars and taxis rushing to get people to and from work.
(6) On crash barriers and underpasses in provincial towns and on banners in the heart of Barcelona, graffiti in the Catalan language demand "Liberty for Catalonia".
(7) Two distinct types of tunnel radial fibers, upper tunnel radial fibers and underpassing radial fibers, were recognized.
(8) Underpasses were open, “not dark and scary places”, and the centre was “joined up” with subtle furniture.
(9) Photograph: Adharanand Finn On the evening of 19 August, Diego Felipe Becerra , a 16-year-old street artist who called himself Tripido, was painting pictures of Felix the Cat on the walls of an underpass when the police turned up.
(10) She made the work in 1999: a recording of her voice, singing this anthem of international socialism, was installed in an underpass in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
(11) The country now has one of the highest densities in the world of overhead crossings and underpasses for wild animals.
(12) All I know for sure is you're best off avoiding the underpass.
(13) From the morphological characteristics, these underpassing radial fibers were thought to be efferent in nature.
(14) The rhyme 'Ya mushir, ya mushir, the people are returning to Tahrir', reverberated through backstreets and underpasses as the marches swelled; in the face of such energy, the generals largely opted to stay out of sight, though they did fire up their primary method of public communication these days – Facebook – to repeat their commitment to democratic transition and chide Egyptians for thinking ill of the top brass.
(15) But even following the A10 autoroute's relatively motorway straight course between villages and towns means building dozens of new bridges and underpasses where the routes wind and overlap.
(16) Officers, many with riot shields and wielding pepper spray, dragged away dozens of protesters, tore down barricades and removed concrete slabs the protesters used as road blocks around the underpass.
(17) Our study included (1) investigating the type and amount of information available in the streets including underpass; (2) classifying and organizing signs according to the content of information; and (3) analyzing the relation between different types of information, between situations and signs, and continuity of the signs of the same type.
(18) Woodford [tube] is accessible on both platforms but you have to access the southbound platform via an underpass.
(19) The alternative to HS2 is not another grand project, it is myriad small, high-return projects that would deliver benefits in the near future: bypasses, flyovers, underpasses, commuter line upgrades, carriage improvements, platform improvements and more ... projects that would serve the many rather than the few.” Day Eight: Berkswell to Birmingham, eight miles My walk ended on the autumn equinox, as it had begun: in the rain.
(20) Other migrants caught in the train station underpass pushed back dozens of riot police blocking the top of the stairs to fight their way back on board the train, which remained stationary in high temperatures.