canal 音标拼音: [kən'æl]
n . 运河,小道,管,沟渠
vt . 开运河
运河,小道,管,沟渠开运河
canal n 1 : (
astronomy )
an indistinct surface feature of Mars once thought to be a system of channels ;
they are now believed to be an optical illusion 2 :
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 " [
synonym : {
duct },
{
epithelial duct }, {
canal }, {
channel }]
3 :
long and narrow strip of water made for boats or for irrigation v 1 :
provide (
a city )
with a canal [
synonym : {
canal }, {
canalize },
{
canalise }]
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 ]
104 Moby Thesaurus words for "
canal ":
Eustachian tube ,
Fallopian tube ,
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 ,
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
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