Difference between tunnel and road

tunnel

Definitions

noun

  1. a hole made by an animal, usually for shelter
  2. a passageway through or under something, usually underground (especially one for trains or cars)

verb

  1. force a way through
  2. move through by or as by digging

Examples

It also has superb golf courses, so if you're a bit of a golf widow, leave him to tussle in the bunker while you slink off to the spa - it's connected to the hotel by a subterranean tunnel.

So, the system of existential graphs actually requires three dimensions for its representations, although the third dimension in which the torus is embedded can usually be represented in two dimensions by the use of pictorial devices that Peirce called “fornices” or “tunnel-bridges” and by the use of identificational devices that Peirce called

They thought he had escaped through a specially constructed tunnel.

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road

Definitions

noun

  1. a way or means to achieve something
  2. an open way (generally public) for travel or transportation

Examples

The Huilloc men are only a little taller than their womenfolk, with broad chests, powerful shoulders and heavily muscled legs.

My poor Lirriper was a handsome figure of a man, with a beaming eye and a voice as mellow as a musical instrument made of honey and steel, but he had ever been a free liver being in the commercial travelling line and travelling what he called a limekiln road — “a dry road, Emma my dear,” my poor Lirriper says to me, “where I have to lay the dust with one drink or another all day long and half the night, and it wears me Emma” — and this led to his running through a good deal and might have run through the turnpike too when that dreadful horse that never would stand still for a single instant set off, but for its being night and the gate shut and consequently took his wheel, my poor Lirriper and the gig smashed to atoms and never spoke afterwards.

It bothered me a little that I didn't have a pickup, and I couldn't see doing much off road driving with my Mustang fastback.

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