Lair vs Tunnel - What's the difference?
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A place inhabited by a wild animal, often a cave or a hole in the ground.
(figuratively) A place inhabited by a criminal or criminals, a superhero or a supervillain.
* 1897 , (Bram Stoker), (Dracula) Chapter 21
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.
Lair is a related term of tunnel.
As nouns the difference between lair and tunnel
is that lair is mare (female horse) or lair can be while tunnel is tunnel.lair
English
Noun
(en noun)- ...Van Helsing stood up and said, "Now, my dear friends, we go forth to our terrible enterprise. Are we all armed, as we were on that night when first we visited our enemy's lair . Armed against ghostly as well as carnal attack?"
Synonyms
* (of an animal''): burrow (''of some smaller mammals''), den (''of a lion or tiger ) * (of a criminal ): den, hide-outAnagrams
* * * * * * ----tunnel
English
(wikipedia tunnel)Noun
(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.