gallery vs tunnel

gallery

noun
  • A covered passage cut through the earth or masonry. 

  • An establishment that buys, sells, and displays works of art. 

  • A roofed promenade, especially one extending along the wall of a building and supported by arches or columns on the outer side 

  • A part of a monocle, a projection off the ring holding the lens, which helps secure the monocle in the eye socket. 

  • The uppermost seating area projecting from the rear or side walls of a theater, concert hall, or auditorium. 

  • The spectators of an event, collectively. 

  • A browsable collection of images, font styles, etc. 

  • The production control room. 

  • The boring trails produced by an insect in wood. 

  • The, often elevated and in the rear, part of a courtroom where seating for the public audience is facilitated during trial. 

  • A channel that carries engine oil to parts of the engine that need lubrication, such as the main bearings. 

  • An institution, building, or room for the exhibition and conservation of works of art. 

  • A level or drive in a mine. 

verb
  • To show off. 

tunnel

noun
  • A passage through or under some obstacle. 

  • An underground or underwater passage. 

  • A hole in the ground made by an animal, a burrow. 

  • 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. 

  • The opening of a chimney for the passage of smoke; a flue. 

  • A wrapper for a protocol that cannot otherwise be used because it is unsupported, blocked, or insecure. 

  • Anything that resembles a tunnel. 

  • 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. 

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

  • To transmit something through a tunnel (wrapper for insecure or unsupported protocol). 

  • To insert a catheter into a vein to allow long-term use. 

  • To undergo the quantum-mechanical phenomenon where a particle penetrates through a barrier that it classically cannot surmount. 

  • To dig a tunnel. 

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