mine vs tunnel

mine

verb
  • To dig a tunnel or hole; to burrow in the earth. 

  • To sow mines (the explosive devices) in (an area). 

  • To dig away, or otherwise remove, the substratum or foundation of; to lay a mine under; to sap; to undermine. 

  • To earn new units of cryptocurrency by doing certain calculations. 

  • To pick one's nose. 

  • To damage (a vehicle or ship) with a mine (an explosive device). 

  • To ruin or destroy by slow degrees or secret means. 

  • To dig into, for ore or metal. 

  • To remove (rock or ore) from the ground. 

noun
  • Any source of wealth or resources. 

  • A type of firework that explodes on the ground, shooting sparks upward. 

  • A passage dug toward or underneath enemy lines, which is then packed with explosives. 

  • The cavity made by a caterpillar while feeding inside a leaf. 

  • An excavation from which ore or solid minerals are taken, especially one consisting of underground tunnels. 

  • A device intended to explode when stepped upon or touched, or when approached by a ship, vehicle, or person. 

  • A machine or network of machines used to extract units of a cryptocurrency. 

pron
  • Used absolutely, set off from the sentence. 

  • Used predicatively. 

  • Used substantively, with an implied noun. 

  • Used otherwise not directly before the possessed noun. 

tunnel

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. 

noun
  • An underground or underwater passage. 

  • A passage through or under some obstacle. 

  • 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. 

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