Excavation vs Tunnel - What's the difference?
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(uncountable) The act of excavating, or of making hollow, by cutting, scooping, or digging out a part of a solid mass.
(countable) A cavity formed by cutting, digging, or scooping.
(countable) An uncovered cutting in the earth, in distinction from a covered cutting or tunnel.
(countable) The material dug out in making a channel or cavity.
(uncountable) Archaeological research that unearths buildings, tombs and objects of historical value.
(countable) A site where an archaeological exploration is being carried out.
An underground or underwater passage.
A passage through or under some obstacle.
* 1922 , (Margery Williams), (The Velveteen Rabbit)
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 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.
The opening of a chimney for the passage of smoke; a flue.
* Spenser
(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.
To make a tunnel through or under something, to burrow.
To make a tunnel.
Excavation is a related term of tunnel.
As nouns the difference between excavation and tunnel
is that excavation is (uncountable) the act of excavating, or of making hollow, by cutting, scooping, or digging out a part of a solid mass while tunnel is tunnel.excavation
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(en noun)- But very soon he grew to like it, for the Boy used to talk to him, and made nice tunnels for him under the bedclothes that he said were like the burrows the real rabbits lived in.
- And one great chimney, whose long tunnel thence / The smoke forth threw.
