Thesaurus / tunnel
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After a moth was given four minutes to taste the sweet stuff, it was attracted to the new smell when sent into the tunnel 15 minutes later, even when neither the sugar water nor the visual cue of the artificial flower was present.
THIS MOTH MAY OUTSMART SMOG BY LEARNING TO LIKE POLLUTION-ALTERED AROMASCARMEN DRAHLSEPTEMBER 11, 2020SCIENCE NEWSAt least 60% of the world’s supply comes from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, mostly from small-scale miners using handheld tools to dig ore from pits and tunnels.
CAN TESLA HELP SOLVE ONE OF THE THORNIEST ETHICAL PROBLEMS WITH ELECTRIC VEHICLES?TIM MCDONNELLSEPTEMBER 10, 2020QUARTZHis new model—incorporating tree forts, climbing poles, tunnels, sand areas, and water—became a prototype for playgrounds around the country.
DESIGNING THE ESSENTIAL AND THE UNSEENTATE RYAN-MOSLEYSEPTEMBER 8, 2020MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEWLike building underground car tunnels and sending private rockets to Mars, this Musk-backed endeavor is incredibly ambitious, but it builds on years of research into brain-machine interfaces.
ELON MUSK IS ONE STEP CLOSER TO CONNECTING A COMPUTER TO YOUR BRAINREBECCA HEILWEILAUGUST 28, 2020VOXThese tunnels, or wormholes, would offer a shortcut between two distant sites in space and time or between two different universes.
COULD RIPPLES IN SPACETIME POINT TO WORMHOLES?EMILY CONOVERAUGUST 24, 2020SCIENCE NEWS FOR STUDENTSShe places Matchbox cars in a wind tunnel and watches the air move.
MINECRAFT’S BIG BEES DON’T EXIST, BUT GIANT INSECTS ONCE DIDCAROLYN WILKEMAY 14, 2020SCIENCE NEWS FOR STUDENTSThe grass had a delightful fragrance, like new-mown hay, and was neatly wound around the tunnel, like the inside of a bird's-nest.
DAVY AND THE GOBLINCHARLES E. CARRYLThe south tunnel in New Street was blocked April 18, 1877, by a locomotive turning over.
SHOWELL'S DICTIONARY OF BIRMINGHAMTHOMAS T. HARMAN AND WALTER SHOWELLTo my friends ever since I have not failed to recommend the passage of the Butterley tunnel as a desirable pleasure excursion.
FIFTY YEARS OF RAILWAY LIFE IN ENGLAND, SCOTLAND AND IRELANDJOSEPH TATLOWOn the Great Western line the longest is the Box tunnel, 3,123 yards in length.
SHOWELL'S DICTIONARY OF BIRMINGHAMTHOMAS T. HARMAN AND WALTER SHOWELLWORDS RELATED TO TUNNEL
- attenuate
- blunt
- clip one's wings
- corrode
- cripple
- debilitate
- dig
- dig out
- disable
- eat away
- enfeeble
- erode
- excavate
- foil
- frustrate
- hollow out
- hurt
- impair
- knock the bottom out of
- mine
- poke full of holes
- ruin
- sabotage
- sandbag
- sap
- soften
- subvert
- threaten
- thwart
- torpedo
- tunnel
- undercut
- wear
- whittle away
- wreck
- attenuates
- blunts
- clips one's wings
- corrodes
- cripples
- debilitates
- digs
- digs out
- disables
- eats away
- enfeebles
- erodes
- excavates
- foils
- frustrates
- hollows out
- hurts
- impairs
- knocks the bottom out of
- mines
- pokes full of holes
- ruins
- sabotages
- sandbags
- saps
- softens
- subverts
- threatens
- thwarts
- torpedo
- tunnels
- undercuts
- wears
- whittles away
- wrecks
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