canal

Significat (Anglès)

Noun

1. An artificial waterway or artificially improved river used for travel, shipping, or irrigation.
2. A tubular channel within the body.
3. One of the faint, hazy markings resembling straight lines on early telescopic images of the surface of Mars; see Martian canals

Verb

1. To dig an artificial waterway in or to (a place), especially for drainage
2. To travel along a canal by boat

Sinònims

channel

ditch

duct

waterway

watercourse

gutter

trench

conduit

pipe

water-course

tube

drain

passage

moat

canalise

stream

meatus

canalize

drainage ditch

epithelial duct

river

sulcus

cut

groove

tunnel

hallway

hole

🕳️

lake

launder

line

lubber

mouth

nitwit

noddy

nozzle

numskull

oaf

opening

passageway

path

🛣️

pipeline

piping

pit

pond

railway

road

🛣️

rod

sewer

ship canal

slot

sluice

smoking pipe

socket

tank

track

trough

vessel

walk-through

water channel

way

irrigation ditch

canalis

channelize

sluiceway

course of a canal

subterranean canal

cannulise

channelise

driving slot

placer mine

water-race

aisle

ductus

alleyway

aqueduct

ark

beam

bozo

bridge

chase

chute

cistern

conductor

corridor

culvert

deferent

drainage

draining ditch

dugout

fathead

flute

🪈

fosse

furrow

gallery

galoot

gangway

hall

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/kəˈnæl/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Borrowed from Middle French canal, from Old French canal, from Latin canālis (“channel; canal”), from canālis (“canal”), from canna (“reed, cane”), from Ancient Greek κάννα (kánna, “reed”), from Akkadian 𒄀 (qanû, “reed”), from Sumerian 𒄀𒈾 (gi.na). Doublet of channel.

Frases

The canal joins the Wannsee with the Griebnitzsee.