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canal

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Scrabble points
7
Words With Friends
10
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/kəˈnæl/
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/kəˈnæl/ · /kəˈnɛl/ · /kəˈnɔːl/

Definition of canal

6 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. An artificial waterway or artificially improved river used for travel, shipping, or irrigation.
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noun

  1. An artificial waterway or artificially improved river used for travel, shipping, or irrigation.
  2. 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.”
  3. One of the faint, hazy markings resembling straight lines on early telescopic images of the surface of Mars; see Martian canals

verb

  1. 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.”
  2. To travel along a canal by boat
    “Near Rotterdam we canalled by Delfthaven.”

name

  1. A surname.

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Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French canal, from Old French canal, from Latin canālis (“channel; canal”), from canālis (“canal”), from canna (“reed, cane”), from Ancient Greek κάννα (kánna, “reed”), from Akkadian 𒄀 (qanû, “reed”), from Sumerian 𒄀𒈾 (gi.na). Doublet of channel.

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