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canal

/ canal /

noun/verb

noun Sense 1

long and narrow strip of water made for boats or for irrigation

Type of:

watercourse waterway

Kinds of:

Caledonian Canal cut industrial watercourse raceway race

Derived:

canalize canalise channel

noun Sense 2

(astronomy) an indistinct surface feature of Mars once thought to be a system of channels; they are now believed to be an optical illusion

Type of:

channel

Domain:

astronomy uranology

verb Sense 3

provide (a city) with a canal

Type of:

supply provide render

Derived:

canalization canalisation

Usage Patterns:

Somebody ----s somebody into V-ing something

noun Sense 4

a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance

"the tear duct was obstructed"

"the alimentary canal"

"poison is released through a channel in the snake''s fangs"

Type of:

passage passageway

Kinds of:

pore spinal canal vertebral canal canalis vertebralis ductule

Derived:

transmit transfer transport channel channelize

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