canal

Meaning

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

channel

ditch

water-course

drainage ditch

smoking pipe

walk-through

water channel

way

irrigation ditch

canalis

channelize

sluiceway

course of a canal

subterranean canal

cannulise

channelise

driving slot

placer mine

water-race

draining ditch

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kəˈnæl/

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.

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