Sekirov Dictionary

canal

/kəˈnæl/

noun 3
verb 2
forms 5

noun3

a channel of water dug across land by people, for boats or for watering fields
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A tubular channel within the body or within a plant.
- The fossilised jaw of T. trusleri has a huge canal running through it and that’s believed to have carried all the nerve and related tissue needed for the sense of electroception. — 2022
One of the faint, hazy markings resembling straight lines on early telescopic images of the surface of Mars; see Martian canals

verb2

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To dig an artificial waterway in or to (a place), especially for drainage
- In the mangrove-type salt marsh, the entire marsh must be canaled or impounded. — 1968
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To travel along a canal by boat
- Near Rotterdam we canalled by Delfthaven. — 1905

forms

canaled · canalled · canaling · canalling · canals

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