canal

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ca·nal /kəˈnæl/ ●●○ noun [countable]  TTWa long passage dug into the ground and filled with water, either for boats to travel along, or to take water to a place 运河 We walked along by the side of the canal. 我们沿着运河边往前走。 the Panama Canal 巴拿马运河by canal The goods were transported by canal to London. 货物经运河运输到伦敦。

Examples from the Corpus

canal• Ocker Hill Power Station with two prominent chimneys, a sewage works and a canal surface with oil and floating debris.• The passageway to the cordoned-off Alsbach canal was wet and dark, and I was glad to have a flashlight.• Sniffing alone or in dangerous places, such as railway embankments and by canals, can be more risky.• The little sketch of Crinan Canal shows the halting-place where passengers wait to re-embark on board the canal boat.• Many of them followed only one stock, in rails, or canals, or petroleum, or banks.• Today, the National Park Service offers boat tours along the canals, narrow quiet canyons between imperious five-story brick buildings.• Most argued that the canals were optical illusions, and that Mars was a cold, waterless, radiation-baked world.Origin canal (1400-1500) Latin canalis “pipe, channel”, from canna; → CANE1

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canal
ca‧nal /kəˈnæl/ noun [countable]a long passage dug into the ground and filled with water, either for boats to travel along, or to take water to a place:
    We walked along by the side of the canal.
    the Panama Canal
    by canal
    The goods were transported by canal to London.
     

THESAURUS

   ▪ river a line of water that flows into the sea: They crossed the river by ferry. | the River Tweed | the Yangtze river
   ▪ tributary a stream or river that flows into a larger river: The River Trombetas is a tributary of the River Amazon.
   ▪ estuary the wide part of a river where it goes into the sea: plans to build a big new airport on the Thames estuary
   ▪ canal a long passage dug into the ground and filled with water, either for boats to travel along, or to take water to a place: Venice’s famous canals | a canal boat
   ▪ delta an area of low land where a river spreads into many smaller rivers near the sea: the Nile delta

canalBrE /kəˈnæl/ 🔊NAmE /kəˈnæl/ 🔊 nouna long straight passage dug in the ground and filled with water for boats and ships to travel along; a smaller passage used for carrying water to fields, crops, etc. 运河；灌溉渠◆the Panama/Suez Canal巴拿马／苏伊士运河◆an irrigation canal一条灌溉渠a tube inside the body through which liquid, food or air can pass 管；导管；食道；气管  ➡  see also alimentary canal