Synonyms for canal
kəˈnæl

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1. canal(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

   Synonyms:
   epithelial duct, duct, channel

2. duct, epithelial duct, canal, channel(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"

   Synonyms:
   epithelial duct, line, transmission channel, channel, distribution channel, television channel, communication channel, duct, groove

3. canal(verb)

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

   Synonyms:
   epithelial duct, duct, channel

4. canal, canalize, canalise(verb)

   provide (a city) with a canal

   Synonyms:
   canalize, canalise, channel

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1. uretha

   Submitted by anonymous on February 5, 2020  

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1. canal(n)

   Synonyms:
   channel

   Associated words:
   towpath, berm, heelpath, lock

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1. List of paraphrases for "canal":

   channel, hotel, carcase, flume, ductus, canals, channels, conduit, groove

How to pronounce canal?

Alex

US English

Daniel

British

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Australian

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Indian

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How to use canal in a sentence?

1. Le Cun:

   Then I saw a tiny light in the distance, almost like somebody lit a match, then all the sudden it was on me, it spit me out into the sunlight into this canal and there were tons of fish around. Goliath groupers, tarpons, a bunch of fish that didn't make it.

2. Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia:

   A moment later I remembered that the young woman having spent five years in Germany, would naturally have learnt the language, but then I heard that when she was rescued from that canal in 1920, she spoke nothing but German – when she spoke at all- which was not often. I readily admit that a ghastly horror experienced in one’s youth can work havoc with one’s memory but I have never heard of any ghastly experience endowing anyone with a knowledge they had not had before it happened. My nieces knew no German at all. Mrs Anderson did not seem to understand a word of Russian or English, the two languages all the four sisters had spoken since babyhood. French came a little later, but German was never spoken in the family.

3. John Lopez:

   These waterways form a funnel that directed the water into the Industrial Canal.

4. John Miller:

   In the Suez Canal what we've seen consistently despite unrest that has occurred in Egypt ... (is) a Suez canal that is secure and properly administered.

5. Skokie Fire Chief Jim Walters:

   I mean it’s murky, it’s murky all the way through, I was told the visibility is about three feet, we encountering the brush on the side of the canal that makes it difficult.

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