canal
An artificial waterway or artificially improved river used for travel, shipping, or…An artificial waterway or artificially improved river used for travel, shipping, or irrigation.
» Amsterdam is famous for its canals.
Amsterdam ist berühmt für seine Grachten.
Амстердам знаменит своими каналами.
Амстердам відомий своїми каналами.
Meaning
3 sensesAn artificial waterway or artificially improved river used for travel, shipping, or irrigation.
Kanal
кана́лkanál
кана́лkanál
A tubular channel within the body or within a plant.
Kanal, Gang
One of the faint, hazy markings resembling straight lines on early telescopic images of the surface of Mars; see Martian canals
- long and narrow strip of water made for boats or for irrigation
- (astronomy) an indistinct surface feature of Mars once thought to be a system of channels; they are now believed to be an optical illusion
- a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance
Examples
76 sentencesAmsterdam is famous for its canals.
Амстердам відомий своїми каналами.
ruАмстердам знаменит своими каналами.
deAmsterdam ist berühmt für seine Grachten.
The Panama Canal connects the Atlantic with the Pacific.
Панамський канал пов'язує Атлантичний океан з Тихим.
ruПанамский канал соединяет Атлантический океан с Тихим.
deDer Panama-Kanal verbindet den Atlantik mit dem Pazifik.
The ship went through the Suez Canal.
ruКорабль прошёл через Суэцкий канал.
deDas Schiff durchquerte den Suezkanal.
The ship went through the Panama Canal.
The Suez Canal links the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea.
ruСуэцкий канал соединяет Средиземное и Красное моря.
Translations
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Origin
Borrowed from Middle French canal, from Old French canal, from Latin canālis (“channel, caBorrowed from Middle French canal, from Old French canal, from Latin canālis (“channel, canal, narrow passage”), from canna (“reed, cane”), from Ancient Greek κάννα (kánna, “reed”), from Akkadian 𒄀 (qanû, “reed”). Doublet of channel. See also cane and -al.
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Forms
plural: canalsSynonyms
3 synonyms- a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance:ductepithelial ductchannel