The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tunnel \Tun"nel\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tunneledor Tunnelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Tunneling or Tunnelling.]
To form into a tunnel, or funnel, or to form like a tunnel; as, to tunnel fibrous plants into nests.
--Derham.To catch in a tunnel net.
To make an opening, or a passageway, through or under; as, to tunnel a mountain; to tunnel a river.
Wiktionary
alt. 1 The act of burrowing a tunnel. 2 The practice of exploring tunnel. 3 (context physics English) The quantum mechanical passing of a particle through an energy barrier. 4 (context finance English) A type of fraud where assets and profits are transferred out of firms for the benefit of those who control them. n. 1 The act of burrowing a tunnel. 2 The practice of exploring tunnel. 3 (context physics English) The quantum mechanical passing of a particle through an energy barrier. 4 (context finance English) A type of fraud where assets and profits are transferred out of firms for the benefit of those who control them. vb. (present participle of tunnel English)
Wikipedia
Tunneling or tunnelling may refer to:
- Digging tunnels (the literal meaning)
- Quantum tunneling, the quantum-mechanical effect where a particle crosses through a classically forbidden potential energy barrier
- Tunneling (fraud), a fraud committed by a company's own management or by major shareholders
- Tunneling protocol, transmitting one computer network protocol that is encapsulated inside another network protocol
Tunneling, or tunnelling (see spelling differences), is a colloquial term for a specific kind of financial fraud. It is defined as "the transfer of assets and profits out of firms for the benefit of those who control them". For example, a group of major shareholders or the management of a publicly traded company orders that company to sell off its assets to a second company at unreasonably low prices. The shareholders or management typically own the second company outright, and thus profit from the otherwise disastrous sale. Tunneling differs from outright theft because people who engage in tunneling generally comply with all of the relevant legal procedures; it is thus a subtler scheme than simply writing checks from a company to a private bank account. While people widely agree that tunneling is unethical, penalties for it vary widely; some states impose criminal sanctions, whereas other states provide either for civil suits only, or for no sanctions at all.
Usage examples of "tunneling".
But now that Chex had trotted off south with Ivy, and Volney was tunneling to his mission, he was worried.
He touched the lobe of her ear, caressed the curve of her neck before slipping his long fingers into her hair, tunneling through the dark red curls, cradling her head.
The life of a sandhog tunneling under a river can be fascinating until you have to listen to a play-by-play of every shovel load of muck.
The situation is such that an ample wasteweir may be built at a low-side dam on the solid rock of Hook Mountain remote from the dam, and outlets may be had by tunneling the same ridge.
He spoke of problems with linear and angular momentum, potential fields, quantum tunneling by photons, leptons, baryons, gravitons.
A number of the younger boars were digging away at the base of the live oak, tunneling into the moist earth and gnawing or snapping through any roots that they encountered.
There was a humping of the ground also, and even without sight Kethan knew that dwellers in the earth were tunneling ahead.
Photon and particle emissions of a hypermassive object, resulting from Heisenberg tunneling across the event horizon.
The legends also tell of a Milagro pastor who went crazy tunneling toward a bell that was ringing underneath his church.
As the objects we study become increasingly complicated, consisting of more and more particle constituents, such quantum tunneling can still occur, but it becomes very unlikely since all of the individual particles must be lucky enough to tunnel together.
She listened to the wind, and to the faint burrowings of unknown insects tunneling around the roots and bulbs and pods of next spring’s flowers: to the breath and heartbeat of another world.
Alba is tunneling headfirst into me, a bone and flesh excavator of my flesh and bone, a deepener of my depths.
MasterMiner Britell in his CraftHall at Crom Hold realized that in order to dig deep into the mountains to get new coal, his miners would have to learn anew the old ways of tunneling and shaft mining.
Below ground, two of the big tunneling machines were in operation, filling hopper car after hopper car with dirt.
All of these demands the same ridiculous patience as, say, tunneling out of a prison with a teaspoon, or sawing through iron bars with a nail file.