Tunnels vs Subway - What's the difference?
tunnels | subway |
(North America, Scotland) An underground railway, especially for mass transit of people in urban areas.
(US) A rapid transit system, regardless of the elevation of its right of way.
(British) underground walkway, tunnel for pedestrians (called pedestrian underpass in US).
(intransitive, US, informal) To travel by underground railway.
* {{quote-news, year=2008, date=February 13, author=Melissa Clark, title=From Paris, With Hustle, work=New York Times
, passage=I suppose I could have subwayed around town in search of froufrou French pastry shops. }}
As nouns the difference between tunnels and subway
is that tunnels is plural of lang=en while subway is an underground railway, especially for mass transit of people in urban areas.As a verb subway is
to travel by underground railway.subway
English
(wikipedia subway)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
(underground railway) * metro * tube * underground (rapid transit system) * rapid transit (underground walkway) * underpassVerb
(en verb)citation