traipse vs tunnel

traipse

noun
  • A long or tiring walk. 

  • A meandering walk. 

verb
  • To travel with purpose; usually a significant or tedious amount. 

  • To walk (a distance or journey) wearily or with effort 

  • To walk about, especially when expending much effort, or unnecessary effort. 

  • to walk about or over (a place) aimlessly or insouciantly. 

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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