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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024ca•nal /kəˈnæl/USA pronunciation n. - Civil Engineering, Nautical, Naval Termsan artificial waterway dug through land, for navigation, etc.: [countable]the Panama Canal.[uncountable]They traveled down by canal.
- Biology a tube or tube-shaped passage in the body for food, etc.;
duct:[countable]the alimentary canal in humans.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024ca•nal (kə nal′),USA pronunciation n., v., -nalled or -naled, -nal•ling or -nal•ing. n. - Civil Engineering, Nautical, Naval Termsan artificial waterway for navigation, irrigation, etc.
- a long narrow arm of the sea penetrating far inland.
- Biologya tubular passage or cavity for food, air, etc., esp. in an animal or plant;
a duct. - channel;
watercourse. - Astronomyone of the long, narrow, dark lines on the surface of the planet Mars, as seen telescopically from the earth.
v.t. - Nautical, Naval Termsto make a canal through.
- Latin canālis, perh. equivalent. to can(na) reed, pipe (see cane) + -ālis -al1; def. 5 a mistranslation of Italian canali channels, term used by German. V. Schiaparelli
- late Middle English: waterpipe, tubular passage 1400–50
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: canal /kəˈnæl/ n - an artificial waterway constructed for navigation, irrigation, water power, etc
- any of various tubular passages or ducts: the alimentary canal
- any of various elongated intercellular spaces in plants
- any of the indistinct surface features of Mars originally thought to be a network of channels but not seen on close-range photographs. They are caused by an optical illusion in which faint geological features appear to have a geometric structure
vb ( -nals, -nalling, -nalled, US -nals, -naling, -naled)(transitive)- to dig a canal through
- to provide with a canal or canals
Etymology: 15th Century (in the sense: pipe, tube): from Latin canālis channel, water pipe, from canna reed, cane1 |