canal

Signification

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

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/kəˈnæl/

Étymologie

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.

Phrases

The canal joins the Wannsee with the Griebnitzsee.

Le canal rejoint le Wannsee avec le Griebnitzsee.