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Definition of canal in English: canalnoun kəˈnalkəˈnæl 1An artificial waterway constructed to allow the passage of boats or ships inland or to convey water for irrigation. they travelled on by canal Example sentencesExamples - Farm children often play near recently sprayed fields and sometimes swim in irrigation canals filled with water contaminated with pesticides.
- He said after the excessive rain, villagers were forced to make a breach in the canal to allow flood waters to flow.
- Currently, more than 85 per cent of water from canals, tanks and wells and tube-wells is used for irrigation.
- The surrounding countryside is flat and almost treeless, but there is some greenery thanks to the complex of irrigation canals that feed water from the Euphrates River and other waterways.
- Many canals, inland waterways and towpaths were open for walkers and other visitors while many English Heritage and National Trust sites were open across the region.
- The plan is that one day the Wilts and Berks canal will allow boats to cruise what is known as the Wessex Waterway Network.
- On lakes and rivers, canals and waterways, tiny lotus-shaped boats are set afloat with candles, incense sticks and flowers to honour and entertain the water spirits.
- Like Venice, Stockholm is built on the water with canals and waterways criss crossing the city.
- Water flows into the depressions, fish move into the relatively deeper water, the canals are blocked off and the fish allowed to grow.
- He also constructed many canals and waterways including the Ulster Canal and the Queens Island on which the Harland and Wolfe shipyard was later built.
- A couple of days later we headed south via boat along the inland canals of the Keralan backwaters.
- A man who cruised Britain's canals in the narrow boat he built himself, has died unexpectedly at the age of 77.
- Throughout history communities along the rivers, canals and waterways of the kingdom have depended on boats for fishing and transporting goods.
- Special handcrafted gold mementos have been awarded to 15 businesses based on the banks of Manchester's city centre canals and waterways to thank them for doing their bit to clean up the city for the Games.
- Keeping enough water in the canal to guarantee ships passage has become a problem.
- Developers have constructed artificial canals to give as many people as possible a slice of the waterfront.
- Engineers from British Waterways, which manages canals across the country, are carrying out an extensive study on the possible re-opening of the waterway which shut in 1922.
- In Holland, we rented a boat and went cruising through the northern part of the country, which is all interconnected by canals and inland waterways and lakes.
- It's a nice thought, but at the end of the day it is still a canal to nowhere, unlike worthy restoration schemes like re-opening of the Kennet and Avon canal which links various other canals into the national waterways grid.
- When payment is involved, the consensus was that it should be for irrigation, canals, pumps, and other infrastructure, not for water per se.
Synonyms inland waterway, channel, watercourse, waterway ship canal 2A tubular duct in a plant or animal, serving to convey or contain food, liquid, or air. Example sentencesExamples - In cases of absence of the internal carotid artery, the carotid canal may also be absent.
- Between the vestibular and tympanic canals lies the cochlear duct.
- Generally, the front, incisor and canine teeth have one canal, premolars have two canals and the back molar teeth have three.
- This canal is the top canal of the inner ear so it is actually right under the brain.
- After they've done their job moistening the eyes, the tears flow into canals in the eyelids, which drain into the lacrimal sac, a pouch in the lower inner corner of each eye socket.
- Swelling of the ear canal may make your child complain of a full or uncomfortable feeling in the ear.
- Unusual muscle fibers may be found in the facial canal along with the facial nerve.
- Scientists say that all animals orientate their inner ear canals in a similar way when they are alert.
- The surgeon seats a femoral bone plug into the medullary canal to provide an end-stop for the cement.
- The scan shows a mild focal dilatation of the central canal of the spinal cord over two vertebral levels in the mid-dorsal region.
- Skin folds, areas underneath fingernails, ear canals, and other portions of the body that may trap chemicals should be inspected and cleaned carefully.
- These waves are channeled through the ear canal to hit the eardrum, causing vibrations.
- The true origin of the glandular neoplasms of the external ear canal is controversial.
- Electronic ear thermometers aren't recommended for infants younger than 3 months because their ear canals are usually too small.
- Insects cut veins in plants with arborescent resin canals or in plants with laticiferous ducts that do not reticulate.
- Normal wax builds up in the outer part of the ear canal, not near the eardrum.
- In this test, a probe is gently put into the ear canal.
- Each cord maintains its connection with the abdominal cavity via the canal, whence the vas joins the urinary tract below the bladder.
- In older people, the most common cause is degeneration in the semi-circular canals of the inner ear.
- Under direct vision the excessive hair follicles of the external ear canal and pinna were targeted by the laser beam.
Synonyms duct, tube, passage, vessel 3Astronomy
Any of a number of linear markings formerly reported as seen by telescope on the planet Mars. Example sentencesExamples - Lowell was soon drawing Mars crisscrossed with a vast canal system.
- Percival Lowell was convinced that these lines were canals, built by a race of intelligent Martians.
- This controversy continued until the 1960s when spacecraft exploration of the planet showed no evidence of the canals.
- A century ago, the astronomer Percival Lowell described water-filled canals on Mars for the same reason.
- The time before that, Giovanni Schiaparelli saw a series of dark markings on the planet's surface that some interpreted as canals built by an ancient civilization.
Origin Late Middle English: from Old French, alteration of chanel 'channel', from Latin canalis 'pipe, groove, channel', from canna 'cane'. cannon from Late Middle English: This large heavy piece of artillery derives its name from French canon, from Italian cannone ‘large tube’, from canna ‘cane, reed, tube’. Soldiers have been called cannon fodder, no more than material to be used up in war, since the late 19th century—the expression is a translation of German Kanonenfutter. Shakespeare did encapsulate a similar idea much earlier, with his phrase ‘food for powder’ in Henry IV Part 1. Canna or its Greek equivalent kanna is the base of a number of other words in English, as well as giving us the name of the canna lily (mid 17th century), which gets its name from the shape of its leaves. Some reflect the use of the plants for making things, some their hollow stems. Canes (Middle English) are basically the same plant. Canister (Late Middle English) was originally a basket from Latin canistrum ‘basket for bread, fruit, or flowers’, from Greek kanastron ‘wicker basket’, from kanna. Canal (Late Middle English) and channel (Middle English) both come via French from Latin canalis ‘pipe, groove, channel’ from canna, and share a source with the Italian pasta cannelloni (mid 19th century). The medical cannula (late 17th century) was originally a ‘small reed’; a canyon (mid 19th century) is from Spanish cañón ‘tube’ from canna.
Rhymes Al, bacchanal, cabal, Chagall, Chantal, chaparral, gal, grand mal, Guadalcanál, Hal, La Salle, mall, Natal, pal, pall-mall, petit mal, sal, shall, Val Definition of canal in US English: canalnounkəˈnalkəˈnæl 1An artificial waterway constructed to allow the passage of boats or ships inland or to convey water for irrigation. Example sentencesExamples - Many canals, inland waterways and towpaths were open for walkers and other visitors while many English Heritage and National Trust sites were open across the region.
- He said after the excessive rain, villagers were forced to make a breach in the canal to allow flood waters to flow.
- Engineers from British Waterways, which manages canals across the country, are carrying out an extensive study on the possible re-opening of the waterway which shut in 1922.
- He also constructed many canals and waterways including the Ulster Canal and the Queens Island on which the Harland and Wolfe shipyard was later built.
- Throughout history communities along the rivers, canals and waterways of the kingdom have depended on boats for fishing and transporting goods.
- The plan is that one day the Wilts and Berks canal will allow boats to cruise what is known as the Wessex Waterway Network.
- Special handcrafted gold mementos have been awarded to 15 businesses based on the banks of Manchester's city centre canals and waterways to thank them for doing their bit to clean up the city for the Games.
- Water flows into the depressions, fish move into the relatively deeper water, the canals are blocked off and the fish allowed to grow.
- It's a nice thought, but at the end of the day it is still a canal to nowhere, unlike worthy restoration schemes like re-opening of the Kennet and Avon canal which links various other canals into the national waterways grid.
- In Holland, we rented a boat and went cruising through the northern part of the country, which is all interconnected by canals and inland waterways and lakes.
- A man who cruised Britain's canals in the narrow boat he built himself, has died unexpectedly at the age of 77.
- Like Venice, Stockholm is built on the water with canals and waterways criss crossing the city.
- Farm children often play near recently sprayed fields and sometimes swim in irrigation canals filled with water contaminated with pesticides.
- Keeping enough water in the canal to guarantee ships passage has become a problem.
- A couple of days later we headed south via boat along the inland canals of the Keralan backwaters.
- Currently, more than 85 per cent of water from canals, tanks and wells and tube-wells is used for irrigation.
- The surrounding countryside is flat and almost treeless, but there is some greenery thanks to the complex of irrigation canals that feed water from the Euphrates River and other waterways.
- When payment is involved, the consensus was that it should be for irrigation, canals, pumps, and other infrastructure, not for water per se.
- Developers have constructed artificial canals to give as many people as possible a slice of the waterfront.
- On lakes and rivers, canals and waterways, tiny lotus-shaped boats are set afloat with candles, incense sticks and flowers to honour and entertain the water spirits.
Synonyms inland waterway, channel, watercourse, waterway - 1.1 A tubular duct in a plant or animal, serving to convey or contain food, liquid, or air.
Example sentencesExamples - In cases of absence of the internal carotid artery, the carotid canal may also be absent.
- Between the vestibular and tympanic canals lies the cochlear duct.
- Insects cut veins in plants with arborescent resin canals or in plants with laticiferous ducts that do not reticulate.
- Each cord maintains its connection with the abdominal cavity via the canal, whence the vas joins the urinary tract below the bladder.
- Normal wax builds up in the outer part of the ear canal, not near the eardrum.
- After they've done their job moistening the eyes, the tears flow into canals in the eyelids, which drain into the lacrimal sac, a pouch in the lower inner corner of each eye socket.
- This canal is the top canal of the inner ear so it is actually right under the brain.
- In older people, the most common cause is degeneration in the semi-circular canals of the inner ear.
- The scan shows a mild focal dilatation of the central canal of the spinal cord over two vertebral levels in the mid-dorsal region.
- The true origin of the glandular neoplasms of the external ear canal is controversial.
- In this test, a probe is gently put into the ear canal.
- Scientists say that all animals orientate their inner ear canals in a similar way when they are alert.
- Swelling of the ear canal may make your child complain of a full or uncomfortable feeling in the ear.
- Generally, the front, incisor and canine teeth have one canal, premolars have two canals and the back molar teeth have three.
- The surgeon seats a femoral bone plug into the medullary canal to provide an end-stop for the cement.
- Under direct vision the excessive hair follicles of the external ear canal and pinna were targeted by the laser beam.
- Skin folds, areas underneath fingernails, ear canals, and other portions of the body that may trap chemicals should be inspected and cleaned carefully.
- Unusual muscle fibers may be found in the facial canal along with the facial nerve.
- These waves are channeled through the ear canal to hit the eardrum, causing vibrations.
- Electronic ear thermometers aren't recommended for infants younger than 3 months because their ear canals are usually too small.
Synonyms duct, tube, passage, vessel - 1.2Astronomy Any of a number of linear markings formerly reported as seen by telescope on the planet Mars.
Example sentencesExamples - Percival Lowell was convinced that these lines were canals, built by a race of intelligent Martians.
- This controversy continued until the 1960s when spacecraft exploration of the planet showed no evidence of the canals.
- A century ago, the astronomer Percival Lowell described water-filled canals on Mars for the same reason.
- The time before that, Giovanni Schiaparelli saw a series of dark markings on the planet's surface that some interpreted as canals built by an ancient civilization.
- Lowell was soon drawing Mars crisscrossed with a vast canal system.
Origin Late Middle English: from Old French, alteration of chanel ‘channel’, from Latin canalis ‘pipe, groove, channel’, from canna ‘cane’. |