'Canal' definitions:
Definition of 'canal'
(from WordNet)
noun
(astronomy) an indistinct surface feature of Mars once thought to be a system of channels; they are now believed to be an optical illusion
noun
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" [syn: duct, epithelial duct, canal, channel]
noun
Long and narrow strip of water made for boats or for irrigation
verb
Definition of 'Canal'
From: GCIDE
- Canal \Ca*nal"\, n. [F. canal, from L. canalis canal, channel; prob. from a root signifying "to cut"; cf. D. kanaal, fr. the French. Cf. Channel, Kennel gutter.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. An artificial channel filled with water and designed for navigation, or for irrigating land, etc. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Anat.) A tube or duct; as, the alimentary canal; the semicircular canals of the ear. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A long and relatively narrow arm of the sea, approximately uniform in width; -- used chiefly in proper names; as, Portland Canal; Lynn Canal. [Alaska] [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- Canal boat, a boat for use on a canal; esp. one of peculiar shape, carrying freight, and drawn by horses walking on the towpath beside the canal.
- Canal lock. See Lock. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'canal'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aqueduct,
- arroyo,
- bed,
- bottleneck,
- canalization,
- canalize,
- carve,
- chamfer,
- channel,
- chisel,
- conduit,
- corrugate,
- course,
- crack,
- creek bed,
- crimp,
- culvert,
- cut,
- dado,
- defile,
- dike,
- ditch,
- donga,
- dry bed,
- duct,
- emunctory,
- engrave,
- entrenchment,
- Eustachian tube,
- Fallopian tube,
- fistula,
- flume,
- flute,
- fosse,
- furrow,
- gash,
- goffer,
- gouge,
- groove,
- gulch,
- gully,
- gullyhole,
- gutter,
- ha-ha,
- headrace,
- incise,
- intestines,
- irrigation ditch,
- isthmus,
- kennel,
- meatus,
- moat,
- narrow,
- narrows,
- neck,
- nullah,
- ostium,
- oviduct,
- pass,
- pleat,
- plow,
- pore,
- rabbet,
- race,
- rifle,
- river bed,
- riverway,
- runnel,
- rut,
- salpinx,
- score,
- scratch,
- slit,
- sluice,
- spillbox,
- spillway,
- strait,
- streak,
- stream bed,
- streamway,
- striate,
- sunk fence,
- swash,
- swash channel,
- tailrace,
- thoracic duct,
- throat,
- trench,
- trough,
- ureter,
- urethra,
- vagina,
- vas,
- vessel,
- wadi,
- water carrier,
- water channel,
- water furrow,
- water gap,
- water gate,
- watercourse,
- waterway,
- waterworks,
- wrinkle
Words containing 'Canal'
- Canalization,
- canalize,
- Canal Fulton,
- Canal Point,
- Canal Winchester,
- Canal boat,
- Canal coal,
- Canal lock,
- Haversian canals,
- Intestinal canal,
- Ring canal,
- Sand canal,
- Semicircular canals,
- Ship canal,
- South Canal,
- Stone canal,
- alimentary canal,
- auditory canal,
- birth canal,
- caledonian canal,
- caloosahatchee canal,
- canal of schlemm,
- canal zone,
- cervical canal,
- ear canal,
- erie canal,
- gota canal,
- grand canal,
- haversian canal,
- inguinal canal,
- panama canal,
- root canal,
- schlemm's canal,
- semicircular canal,
- spinal canal,
- suez canal,
- vertebral canal,
- Canal Fulton, OH,
- Canal Point, FL,
- Canal Winchester, OH,
- South Canal, OH,
- cape cod canal,
- external auditory canal,
- panama canal zone,
- new york state barge canal