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Tunnel vs Cellar - What's the difference?

tunnel | cellar |

As nouns the difference between tunnel and cellar

is that tunnel is tunnel while cellar is an enclosed underground space, often under a building; used for storage or shelter or cellar can be salt cellar.

As a verb cellar is

to store in a cellar.

tunnel

English

(wikipedia tunnel)

Noun

(en noun)
  • An underground or underwater passage.
  • A passage through or under some obstacle.
  • * 1922 , (Margery Williams), (The Velveteen Rabbit)
    • 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.
  • 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
    • And one great chimney, whose long tunnel thence / The smoke forth threw.
  • (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.

    • Verb

  • To make a tunnel through or under something, to burrow.
  • To make a tunnel.

    • Related terms

    * light at the end of the tunnel * tunnel head * tunnel kiln * tunneller * tunnel net * tunnel vision * wind tunnel ----

    cellar

    English

    Alternative forms

    * seller (obsolete)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) celer, (etyl) celier (modern (cellier)), from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An enclosed underground space, often under a building; used for storage or shelter.
  • A wine collection, especially when stored in a cellar.
  • (slang) Last place in a competition.
  • (historical) A small dish for holding salt.
    • Derived terms
    * cellarage * cellarer * cellar dweller * cyclone cellar * root cellar * storm cellar * wine cellar

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To store in a cellar.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2008, date=June 25, author=Lucy Burningham, title=Beer Lovers Make Room for Brews Worth a Wait, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Mr. VandenBerghe says he’s cellared such memorable bottles as the Batch 1 Adam from Hair of the Dog, a 14-year-old ale from Portland, Ore., that’s 10 percent alcohol, and the Trappistes Rochefort 10, a Quadrupel Belgian ale that peaks around age 10. }}

    Etymology 2

    From 15th Century English saler, from (etyl)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • salt cellar

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