canal
Other forms: canals; canalling; canalled
A canal is a long, man-made strip of water used for irrigation or boat access to a bigger body of water, like the famous Erie Canal, which connects the Hudson River to Lake Erie.
Canal is related to the word channel, and all its different shades of meaning have to do with tunnel shaped spaces that carry liquid from one place to another. Besides man-made irrigation canals, canals that connect boat docks to rivers and oceans, or street-like canals in boat cities like Amsterdam, there are canals in your body, like your nasal canal, or the birth canal you came out of. It's also a verb meaning "to dig a canal."
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long and narrow strip of water made for boats or for irrigationexamples:Caledonian Canala canal in northern Scotland that links North Sea with the Atlantic Ocean; runs diagonally between Moray Firth at the northeastern end and Loch Linnhe at the southwestern end; now little usedCaloosahatchee Canala canal that connects Lake Okeechobee with the Caloosahatchee River in southern Florida to form part of the Cross-Florida WaterwayGrand Canalan inland waterway 1000 miles long in eastern China; extends from Tianjin in the north to Hangzhou in the southGrand Canalthe major waterway in Venice, ItalyCape Cod Canala canal connecting Cape Cod Bay with Buzzards BayErie Canalan artificial waterway connecting the Hudson river at Albany with Lake Erie at Buffalo; built in the 19th century; now part of the New York State Barge CanalNew York State Barge Canala system of canals crossing New York State and connecting the Great Lakes with the Hudson River and Lake Champlaintypes:cuta canal made by erosion or excavationindustrial watercoursea canal that is operated by one or more industriestype of:
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(astronomy) an indistinct surface feature of Mars once thought to be a system of channels; they are now believed to be an optical illusiontype of:channela deep and relatively narrow body of water (as in a river or a harbor or a strait linking two larger bodies) that allows the best passage for vessels
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provide (a city) with a canal
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a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance“the alimentary canal”synonyms: channel, duct, epithelial ducttypes:poreany small opening in the skin or outer surface of an animalcanalis vertebralis, spinal canal, vertebral canalthe canal in successive vertebrae through which the spinal cord passescanaliculusa small canal or duct as in some bones and parts of plantsSchlemm's canal, canal of Schlemm, sinus venosus scleraea circular canal in the eye that drains aqueous humor from the anterior chamber of the eye into the anterior ciliary veinssinus, venous sinusa wide channel containing blood; does not have the coating of an ordinary blood vessellachrymal duct, lacrimal duct, tear ductany of several small ducts that carry tears from the lacrimal glandsnasolacrimal ducta duct that carries tears from the lacrimal sac to the nasal cavityHaversian canalany of the many tiny canals that contain blood vessels and connective tissue and that form a network in bonehepatic ductthe duct that drains bile from the livercanalis inguinalis, inguinal canaloblique passage through the lower abdominal wall; in males it is the passage through which the testes descend into the scrotum and it contains the spermatic cord; in females it transmits the round ligament of the uteruspancreatic ducta duct connecting the pancreas with the intestinelymph vessel, lymphatic vessela vascular duct that carries lymph which is eventually added to the venous blood circulationsalivary ducta duct through which saliva passes from the salivary gland into the mouthSylvian aqueduct, aqueductus cerebri, cerebral aqueducta canal connecting the third and fourth ventriclesuretereither of a pair of thick-walled tubes that carry urine from the kidney to the urinary bladderurethraduct through which urine is discharged in most mammals and which serves as the male genital ductcanalis cervicis uteri, cervical canala spindle-shaped canal extending from the uterus to the vaginavaginathe lower part of the female reproductive tract; a moist canal in female mammals extending from the labia minora to the uterusepididymisa convoluted tubule in each testis; carries sperm to vas deferensductus deferens, vas deferensa duct that carries spermatozoa from the epididymis to the ejaculatory ductejaculatory ducta part of the seminal duct formed by the duct from the seminal vesicle and the vas deferens; passes through the prostate glandcartilaginous tubea duct with cartilaginous wallsbronchioleany of the smallest bronchial ducts; ending in alveoliGI tract, alimentary canal, alimentary tract, digestive tract, digestive tube, gastrointestinal tracttubular passage of mucous membrane and muscle extending about 8.3 meters from mouth to anus; functions in digestion and eliminationlactiferous ductducts of the mammary gland that carry milk to the nipplecoronary sinus, sinus coronariusa short sinus receiving most of the veins of the heart; empties into the right atriumsweat ducta small duct that conveys sweat from a sudoriferous gland to the surface of the skinbiliary ductuleexcretory ducts of the liver; empty into the hepatic ductsthoracic ductthe major duct of the lymphatic systemlactealany of the lymphatic vessels that convey chyle from the small intestine to the thoracic ducttrachea, windpipemembranous tube with cartilaginous rings that conveys inhaled air from the larynx to the bronchienteronthe alimentary canal (especially of an embryo or a coelenterate)ostiolea small pore especially one in the reproductive bodies of certain algae and fungi through which spores passtype of:
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