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Tunnel vs Passageway - What's the difference?

tunnel | passageway |

As nouns the difference between tunnel and passageway

is that tunnel is an underground or underwater passage while passageway is a covered walkway, between rooms or buildings.

As a verb tunnel

is to make a tunnel through or under something, to burrow.

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.
  • passageway

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A covered walkway, between rooms or buildings.
  • * 1994 , (Stephen Fry), (The Hippopotamus) Chapter 2
  • The door of the twins' room opposite was open; a twenty-watt night-light threw a weak yellow glow into the passageway . David could hear the twins breathing in time with each other.
  • Any way for passing in, out or through something.