trunking vs tunnel

trunking

noun
  • A system of ducts for cables, heating or ventilation. 

  • The movement of containers or packages between a terminal and a transporter's inland facilities, or the scheduled transportation service between locations. 

  • All the electrical and communications cables bundled together and distributed through a building. 

  • Plastic conduit or duct used to conceal and protect electrical wiring. 

  • A two-way radio technique that uses a control channel to automatically assign frequency channels to groups of user radios. 

tunnel

noun
  • 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. 

  • 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. 

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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