Tunnel vs Tomb - What's the difference?
tunnel | tomb |
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.
A small building (or "vault") for the remains of the dead, with walls, a roof, and (if it is to be used for more than one corpse) a door. It may be partly or wholly in the ground (except for its entrance) in a cemetery, or it may be inside a church proper or in its crypt. Single tombs may be permanently sealed; those for families (or other groups) have doors for access whenever needed.
A pit in which the dead body of a human being is deposited; a grave.
* Shakespeare
As nouns the difference between tunnel and tomb
is that tunnel is tunnel while tomb is block.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.
Verb
tomb
English
Noun
(en noun)- As one dead in the bottom of a tomb .