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Definition: Canal |
CanalNoun1. (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 conveying a secretion or other substance. 3. Long and narrow strip of water made for boats or for irrigation. Verb1. Provide with a canal, as of a city. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "canal" was first used: sometime in the early 15th century. (references) |
Etymology: Canal \Ca*nal"\, noun. [French canal, from Latin canalis canal, channel; probably from a root signifying ``to cut''; compare to Dutch kanaal, from the French. Compare to Channel, Kennelgutter.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Building & Civil Engineering | An artificial watercourse of uniform dimensions designed for navigation, drainage or irrigation. Source: European Union. (references) |
Dream Interpretation | To see the water of a canal muddy and stagnant-looking, portends sickness and disorders of the stomach and dark designs of enemies. But if its waters are clear a placid life and the devotion of friends is before you. For a young woman to glide in a canoe across a canal, denotes a chaste life and an adoring husband. If she crossed the canal on a bridge over clear water and gathers ferns and other greens on the banks, she will enjoy a life of ceaseless rounds of pleasure and attain to high social distinction. But if the water be turbid she will often find herself tangled in meshes of perplexity and will be the victim of nervous troubles. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Geography | An artificial waterway for inland navigation or irrigation. Source: European Union. (references) |
Industry | The part of a window glass tank leading from the refining zone to the drawing chamber. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. An artificial watercourse cut through a land area for use in navigation, irrigation, etc b. That part of a tank leading from the relatively wide fining area to the machine. (references) |
Science | A man-made watercourse designed to carry goods or water. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Canals are man-made waterways, usually connecting existing lakes, rivers, or oceans. They are used for transportation, often by barges or narrowboats on smaller canals, and by ships on ship canals that connect to the ocean. Inland canals preceded the development of railroads during the Industrial Revolution, and some canals were later drained and used as railroad rights-of-way.
Irrigation canals are man-made waterways for the delivery of water and preceded the use of transportation canals.
Canals have found another use in the 21st century, as wayleaves for fibre optic telecommunications networks.
Canals on Mars
For a time in the early 20th century, it was believed that there were canals on Mars. This belief was due to a combination of errors: an optical illusion caused the astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli to think he saw channels on the planet's surface, and the Italian word for channels, canali, was misunderstood by English-speakers.
See
- Canal lock
- Ship canal
- List of waterways,
- List of canals in the United States,
- List of rivers in the United States,
- Waterways in the United Kingdom,
- Waterway restoration
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Canal."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The Panama Canal is a large canal that cuts through the isthmus of Panama and connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
The canal has two sets of locks on the Pacific side and one on the Atlantic. The Pacific end, called Miraflores, is 24 cm higher than the Atlantic end, called Gatún, and has much greater tides. Between Miraflores Locks and Gatún Lake are Pedro Miguel Locks; each of these sets consists of one lock for Atlantic-bound ships and one for Pacific-bound. Lake Gatún, which is 26 meters above sea level, is fed by the Chagres River, which was dammed to make the lake. Gaillard Cut, between Miraflores and Pedro Miguel, is 9 meters above sea level. The Atlantic end is northwest of the Pacific end.
Several islands are located within the Lake Gatún portion of the Panama Canal, including Barro Colorado Island, a nature preserve.
History
The dream of a canal across the isthmus of Central America went back centuries, and there was serious discussion that such could be built from the 1820s on. The two routes appearing most favorable were across Panama and across Nicaragua, with a route across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in Mexico a third option. There was serious discussion and surveys taken concerning the Nicaragua route; see: Nicaragua Canal.
The Panama Railway was built across the isthmus from 1850 to 1855. The existance of the infastructure of this functioning railroad was a key consideration in plans to build the canal in Panama.
Prior to the Panama Canal's construction, the fastest way to travel by ship from New York to California would have been to round the tip of South America, a long and dangerous route. After the success of the Suez Canal in Egypt, the French believed that they could connect another two seas with as little difficulty. Ferdinand de Lesseps, the same person who was in charge of the construction of the Suez Canal, was first called upon to build the new canal at Panama. Construction on the canal began on January 1, 1880.
Unfortunately, the French did not realise the difference between digging quantities of sand in a dry flat area and removing vast quantities of rock from the middle of a jungle. Technical problems and high mortality rates from malaria, yellow fever and other tropical diseases eventually forced the French to give up.
President Theodore Roosevelt of the United States felt that the USA could complete the project and that US control of the passage from the Atlantic to Pacific oceans would be militarily and economically important to the United States. At the time Panama was part of Colombia so Roosevelt proceded to negotiate with the Colombians to obtain the rights needed to build the canal. In early 1903 the Hay-Herran Treaty was signed by both nations but the Colombian Senate failed to ratify the treaty. In what was then, and still is, a very controversial move, Roosevelt implied to Panamanian rebels that if they revolted that the US Navy would assist their cause for independence. Panama then proclaimed it independence on November 3, 1903.
Here, three locks of the canal can be seen (Larger Version)Then when fighting began Roosevelt ordered US battleships stationed off of Panama's coast for "training exercises." Many argue that fear of a war with the United States caused the Colombians to largely avoid serious opposition to the revolution. The victorious Panamanians returned the favor to Roosevelt by allowing the United States to gain control of the Panama Canal Zone on February 23, 1904 for $10 million (as provided in the Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty, signed on November 18, 1903).
The first success of the North Americans was in eliminating the noxious yellow fever that had been killing so many workers. Walter Reed had determined in Cuba during the Spanish-American War that mosquitos spread the disease. 20,000 French workers had died from disease, but new sanitary procedures led by Dr. William Gorgas eliminated yellow fever in 1905.
John Findlay Wallace was the first chief engineer of the project. His work did not go well, hampered by disease. He resigned after one year. The second chief engineer, John Stevens, started by improving living conditions for the workers. He eventually abandoned the sea level canal plan and started work on a lock and dam system. He resigned in 1907. US Colonel George Washington Goethals was the last chief engineer and his engineering of the Canal earned much praise at the time. The work on the canal was still grueling, but great progress was made.
US President Woodrow Wilson triggered the explosion of the Gamboa Dike on October 10, 1913 thus ending construction on the canal.
Pedro Miguel Locks under construction, early 1910's, showing center wall and intakes, looking northWhen the canal opened in 1914 it was a technological marvel. A complex series of locks let even large ships pass through. The canal was an important strategic and economic asset to the US, and revolutionized world shipping patterns.
The United States used the canal during World War II to help revitalize their devastated Pacific Fleet. Some of the largest ships the United States needed to pass through the canal were aircraft carriers, in particular the Essex class aircraft carrier. These ships were so large that, although the locks could hold the carriers, the lampposts which lined the canal needed to be removed to allow for the carrier's required space to pass through.
The canal and the Canal Zone surrounding it were administered by the United States until 1999 when control was relinquished to Panama. This was the result of the September 7, 1977 signing of the Torrijos - Carter Treaty in which US president Jimmy Carter conceded to Panamanian demands for control. The treaty called for a gradual changeover, placing the canal completely in Panamanian jurisdiction by December 31, 1999.
Panama has since managed the Canal in a very professional way, breaking all previous traffic, revenue and safety records year after year.
It has been declared one of the modern Seven Wonders of the World by the American Society of Civil Engineers.
External links
- Official website of the Panama Canal Authority
- Dr. Alonso Roy's short essays on Panama Canal History
- Reclaim Our Canal!
- U.S. DEFENSE - AMERICAN VICTORY Panama Canal Page
- THE HONORABLE BOB BARR, et al., v. MADELEINE ALBRIGHT Panama Canal case
- JUDICIAL WATCH, INC. v. PANAMA CANAL COMMISSION case
- 11th-hour plan to save Panama Canal
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Panama Canal."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A ship canal is a canal especially constructed to carry ocean-going ships, as opposed to barges. Ship canals can be enlarged barge canals, canalised or channelized riverss, or canals especially constructed from the start to accommodate ships.For a canal to qualify as a ship canal, it must have a minimum depth of at least 5 metres (16.4 feet), although many are much deeper. The purpose of a ship canal is:
List of important ship canals:
- To create a shortcut and avoid lengthy detours.
- To create a navigable shipping link between two land-locked seas or lakes.
- To provide inland cities with a direct shipping link to the sea.
- Baltic to White Sea Canal (formerly Stalin Canal) in Russia, 141 miles (227 km) long, opened in 1933, is partly a canalised river, partly an artificial canal, and partly some natural lakes.
- Suez Canal in Egypt, 100 miles (160 km) long, opened in 1869, links the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea.
- V. I. Lenin Volga-Don Canal in Russia, 62 miles (100 km) long, opened in 1952, connects the Black, Azov, and Caspian Seas.
- Kiel Canal in Germany, 60 miles (98 km) long, opened in 1895. Shortens the passage between the North Sea and the Baltic Sea.
- Houston Ship Canal in the USA, 56 miles (91 km) long, connects Houston, Texas to the Gulf of Mexico.
- Alphonse XIII Canal in Spain, 53 miles (85 km) long, opened in1926, mostly canalised river. Links Seville to the Gulf of Cadiz.
- Panama Canal in Panama, 51 miles (82 km) long, opened in 1914. Links the Caribbean Sea to the Pacific Ocean, creating a shortcut.
- Manchester Ship Canal in England, 35 miles (57 km) long, opened in 1894. Links Manchester to Irish Sea.
- Welland Canal in Canada, 28 miles (45 km) long, opened in 1931. Links Lake Erie to Lake Ontario.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Ship canal."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| CASU | English | Co-operative Association of Suez Canal Users | N/A |
| CAC | Spanish | Categoría de amplitud del canal | Mechanical Engineering |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: CanalSynonyms: channel (n), duct (n), canalise (v), canalize (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Conduit | Noun: conduit, channel, duct, watercourse, race; head race, tail race; abito, aboideau, aboiteau, bito; acequia, acequiador, acequiamadre; arroyo; adit, aqueduct, canal, trough, gutter, pantile; flume, ingate, runner; lock-weir, tedge; vena; dike, main, gully, moat, ditch, drain, sewer, culvert, cloaca, sough, kennel, siphon; piscina; pipe. (tube); funnel; tunnel. (passage); water pipe, waste pipe; emunctory, gully hole, artery, aorta, pore, spout, scupper; adjutage, ajutage; hose; gargoyle; gurgoyle; penstock, weir; flood gate, water gate; sluice, lock, valve; rose; waterworks. |
Method | Roadway, pathway, stairway; express; thoroughfare; highway; turnpike, freeway, royal road, coach road; broad highway, King's highway, Queen's highway; beaten track, beaten path; horse road, bridle road, bridle track, bridle path; walk, trottoir, footpath, pavement, flags, sidewalk; crossroad, byroad, bypath, byway; cut; short cut; (mid-course); carrefour; private road, occupation road; highways and byways; railroad, railway, tram road, tramway; towpath; causeway; canal; (conduit); street; (abode); speedway. |
Opening | Way, path; thoroughfare; channel; passage, passageway; tube, pipe; water pipe; air pipe; vessel, tubule, canal, gut, fistula; adjutage, ajutage; ostium; smokestack; chimney, flue, tap, funnel, gully, tunnel, main; mine, pit, adit, shaft; gallery. |
Ship | Boat, pinnace, launch; life boat, long boat, jolly boat, bum boat, fly boat, ferry oat, canal boat; swamp boat, ark, bully, bateau battery, broadhorn, dory, droger, drogher; dugout, durham boat, flatboat, galiot; shallop, gig, funny, skiff, dingy, scow, cockleshell, wherry, coble, punt, cog, kedge, lerret; eight oar, four oar, pair oar; randan; outrigger; float, raft, pontoon; prame; iceboat, ice canoe, ice yacht. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Canal |
| English words defined with "canal": Canal boat, canal of Schlemm, cervical canal ♦ Erie Canal ♦ Panama Canal ♦ Schlemm's canal, ship canal, spinal canal, Stone canal, Suez Canal ♦ vertebral canal. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "canal": canal tender, central canal, Cloquet canal, Cloquet's canal ♦ internal auditory canal, internal ear canal ♦ pterygoid canal ♦ resin canal, Root Canal Irrigants, Root Canal Therapy ♦ Suez Canal clause ♦ traumatic intercellular canal ♦ Vidian canal. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Canal" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Catalan (canal, channel), French (canal, channel, chute, conduit, cut, duct, sluice, sluiceway, waterway), Occitan (brook, stream), Portuguese (alcove, canal, channel, conduit, data transmission channel, deferent, dike, duct, dyke, fosse, gat, gate, gullet, hole, hollow, isthmus, iter, kerf, meatus, outlet, race, runway, taxi channel, transmission channel, tube, watercourse, water-way), Romanian (canal, channel, conduit, ditch, duct, flume, Fosse, gut, gutter, hose, jet, sewer, sound, the airways, trough), Scottish (cinnamon), Spanish (canal, channel, dike, duct, dyke, gutter, side, sluice, track, trough, watercourse). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I think I need a root canal. I definitely need a long, slow root canal (Little Shop of Horrors; writing credit: Charles B. Griffith; Howard Ashman) You're not gonna get my chocolate canal! (Zombiegeddon; writing credit: Chris Watson) A Sheldon can do your income taxes, if you need a root canal, Sheldon's your manbut humpin' and pumpin' is not Sheldon's strong suit (When Harry Met Sally...; writing credit: Nora Ephron) You're not doing a root canal on his anus (Women in Revolt; writing credit: Paul Morrissey) Oh, but it's absurd to think that any one nation would dominate the canal! (Suez; writing credit: Sam Duncan; Philip Dunne) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Canal de Isabel II (1968) Le Chemin du canal (1956) Ombre sul Canal Grande (1951) Canal Zone (1942) The Fergana Canal (1939) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Locks at Pacific end of Panama Canal. View from ship of opening gates. Ship is moved forward and stopped by cables attached to small electric locomotives on tracks. Credit: CDC. |  | NOAA Ship RESEARCHER passing through the Panama Canal. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | "A Lumber Mill at Port Gamble" on Hood's Canal. In: "Puget Sound and Western Washington Cities-Towns Scenery", by Robert A. Reid, Robert A. Reid Publisher, Seattle, 1912. P. 149. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | "The Olympic Mountains from Hoods Canal". In: "Puget Sound and Western Washington Cities-Towns Scenery", by Robert A. Reid, Robert A. Reid Publisher, Seattle, 1912. P. 140. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Lynn Canal, Haines area of southeast Alaska. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Lynn Canal. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | Headboat F/V CAPT DOUG II tied up on the Woodcliff Canal. Credit: Fisheries. |  | Recreational fishing boats tied up on the Woodcliff Canal. Credit: Fisheries. |
 | Vincent Cheramie, monitoring manager, and Brian Kendrick, project manager at Mobile Canal, Point Au Fer Island. View from east to west. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | Mobile Canal beach repair. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
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| "Panama Canal 1" by Harry Barkan Commentary: "Canal transit scenes." | "Venetian canal" by Justin Bird Commentary: "Boats parked along a canal in Venice." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Play | Caption |
 | Drill; teeth; tooth; dentist; novocaine; cavity; root canal; plaque; bacteria. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Ronald Reagan | Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. |
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Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | She shall not undertake any works of a nature to impede navigation on the Canal or its approaches. (reference) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The hearse passed the Bastille, followed the canal, crossed the little bridge, and reached the esplanade of the Bridge of Austerlitz |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | They had reached the canal bridge and, turning from their course, went on by the trees |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | There is a canal two rods wide along the northerly and westerly sides, and wider still at the east end. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | This test requires insertion of a small soft plug into the opening of the child's ear canal. (references) | |
This fluid, which helps make up semen, energizes the sperm and makes the vaginal canal less acidic. (references) | ||
The central canal is continuous with the brain ventricles, large fluid-filled spaces inside the brain. (references) | ||
Business | The best performances for such hydro mechanical equipment have been carried out for the harnessing of the Iron Gates II hydropower plant and for the Danube-Black sea shipping canal. (references) | |
Various water saving techniques are employed on only about 10 percent of surface-irrigated land using land leveling, small ditch or furrow irrigation, canal and ditch leakage prevention, and closed conduit water transportation. (references) | ||
Isla del Este will be the biggest of the three with private moorings for boats up to 100 feet in length in each of the lots. It is located 20 kilometers North of Buenos Aires, on the confluence of Canal del Este and Rio de la Plata. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Mauritius | Foreign international news services, such as the United Kingdom's Sky News, France's Canal Plus, and Cable News Network, are available to the public by subscription. (references) |
Cote d'Ivoire | The only private television broadcaster, Canal Horizon, is foreign owned and operated via satellite from South Africa; it broadcasts no domestically produced programs. (references) | |
Peru | Cable Magico's--and therefore Telefonica's--original stated intention was to carry two cable news channels with opposing viewpoints (Canal N and CCN) to ensure varied points of view. (references) | |
Economic History | Spain | Canal Plus is the only pay-per-view TV Channel and consists of mostly encoded programming. (references) |
Spain | The diffusion of digital signals is already a reality through Via Digital, Canal Satellite and Quiero TV. (references) | |
Panama | These zones can also make direct sales to foreign vessels transiting the Panama Canal, and to foreign airlines. (references) | |
Minorities | Panama | Black Canal workers traditionally commanded significantly higher financial resources compared with blacks elsewhere in society, but many have retired or emigrated and there is some anecdotal evidence that the rest are being replaced by white personnel. (references) |
Political Economy | EGYPT | Tourism, the Suez Canal, trade, and banking are the largest service sub-sectors. (references) |
Panama | That said, U.S. companies should find possibilities to participate as suppliers to Canal operations and maintenance. (references) | |
Trade | Panama | It also permits direct sales to foreign vessels transiting the Panama Canal, and to foreign airlines. (references) |
Panama | The following goods are imported under duty free status: consigned to national or municipal governments, imported by foreign diplomats, sold to the Canal, sold to vessels transiting the Canal, or intended for reexport. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Panama | The law governing the autonomous Panama Canal Authority prohibits the right to strike for its 10,000 employees, but does allow unions to organize and to bargain collectively. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
John Quincy Adams | 1825-1829 | On a canal from Lake PontChartrain to the Mississippi River. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | This improvement, if successful, would afford a free passage of the river and render the canal entirely useless. |
William H. Taft | 1909-1913 | Some type of canal must be constructed. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | We've won new respect in this hemisphere with the Panama Canal treaties. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Canal" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 66.41% of the time. "Canal" is used about 2,037 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 66.41% | 1,353 | 5,881 |
| Noun (proper) | 33.59% | 684 | 9,677 |
| Total | 100.00% | 2,037 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "canal" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Canal | Last name | 200 | 34,105 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Egypt | Suez Canal Bank | Germany | Terrain Gesellschaft am Teltow Canal Rudow AG |
| USA | Canal Electric Company | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "canal": Alimentary canal ♦ Auditory canal ♦ birth canal ♦ Canal boat ♦ Canal coal ♦ canal Fulton ♦ canal lock ♦ canal of Petit ♦ canal of Schlemm ♦ canal Point ♦ canal sickness ♦ canal Winchester ♦ canal zone ♦ carpal canal syndrome ♦ central canal ♦ cervical canal ♦ ciliary canal ♦ Cloquet canal ♦ Cloquet's canal ♦ cochlear canal ♦ derivation canal ♦ deviation canal ♦ ear canal ♦ Erie Canal ♦ external auditory canal ♦ external ear canal ♦ haversian canal ♦ hyaloid canal ♦ infraorbital canal ♦ inguinal canal ♦ intercellular canal ♦ internal auditory canal ♦ internal ear canal ♦ Intestinal canal ♦ irrigation canal ♦ Lachine Canal ♦ lined canal ♦ Marseilles canal type outlet ♦ membranous cochlear canal ♦ navigation canal ♦ new York State Barge Canal ♦ open a canal ♦ outlet canal ♦ panama canal ♦ Petit canal ♦ pterygoid canal ♦ radial intercellular canal ♦ resin canal ♦ ring canal ♦ root canal ♦ Root Canal Filling Materials ♦ Root Canal Irrigants ♦ Root Canal Preparation ♦ Root Canal Therapy ♦ sand canal ♦ Schlemm's canal ♦ semicircular canal ♦ ship canal ♦ South Canal ♦ spinal canal ♦ Stilling's canal ♦ stone canal ♦ suborbital canal ♦ suez canal ♦ Suez Canal clause ♦ the panama canal ♦ traumatic intercellular canal ♦ vertebral canal ♦ Vidian canal ♦ zygomatic canal. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "canal": canal-bank, canal-boat, canal-builder, canal-building, canal-coal, canal-digging, canal-heads, canal-like, canal-side. | |
Ending with "canal": birth-canal, ear-canal, nerve-canal, pore-canal, root-canal, ship-canal, side-canal. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
canal | 2,380 | canal rcn | 78 |
root canal | 1,223 | canal digital | 73 |
panama canal | 1,208 | rideau canal | 71 |
erie canal | 470 | 96 canal | 66 |
canal plus | 251 | canal del tiempo | 62 |
panama canal cruise | 244 | hood canal | 59 |
suez canal | 218 | canal du midi | 58 |
canal fulton ohio | 183 | panama canal picture | 57 |
love canal | 152 | canal decoder | 56 |
canal winchester ohio | 143 | el canal del tiempo | 52 |
canal caracol | 130 | canal once | 50 |
canal de panama | 128 | canal venus | 47 |
canal vie | 121 | canal new street york | 47 |
13 canal | 119 | cape cod canal | 46 |
c canal o | 104 | root canal pain | 45 |
canal street | 90 | canal day fairport | 43 |
canal satellite | 86 | canal j | 43 |
welland canal | 84 | canal day | 43 |
panama canal history | 82 | chemung canal | 42 |
canal boat | 80 | root canal procedure | 41 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "canal"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | kanaal (channel). (various references) | |
Albanian | kanal (aqueduct, chamfer, channel, conduit, cut, ditch, drain, duct, excavation, flute, Fosse, gully, gut, gutter, Lade, program, programme, rabbet, runway, sewer, trench, tube, watercourse). (various references) | |
Arabic | قناة (aqueduct, channel, chase, conduit, cut, ditch, duct, gutter, passage, path, pipe, rut, sluiceway, spile, trough, trunk, tube, water course, waterway), شق قناة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | канален, канал (aqueduct, channel, cut, ditch, duct, gutter, mortise, passage, port, rabbet, race, scour, sewer, trench, vas, vessel), проход (adit, notch, orifice, pass, passage, thoroughfare), изкуствено прокопан канал. (various references) | |
Catalan | canal (channel). (various references) | |
Chinese | 運河 , 运河, 漕 (transport by water, watercourse). (various references) | |
Czech | kanál (channel, ditch, drain, gutter, sink, sluice way, station). (various references) | |
Danish | kanal (channel). (various references) | |
Dutch | kanaal (barrel, channel, pipe, strait, tube), vaart (channel, speed), gracht (channel, ditch, hole, pit). (various references) | |
Esperanto | kanalo (channel). (various references) | |
Farsi | مجرای فاضل اب (Sewer), کاریز (Drainpipe, Gully), حفرترعه کردن , زه اب , ابراه ساختن , ابراه . (various references) | |
Finnish | kanava (channel, meatus). (various references) | |
French | canal (lined canal). (various references) | |
Frisian | kanaal (channel), djip (channel, deep, profound). (various references) | |
German | Kanal (channel, ditch, drain, duct, sewer, ship canal). (various references) | |
Greek | κανάλι (channel), διώρυγα (channel). (various references) | |
Hawaiian | kanal (channel). (various references) | |
Hebrew | תעלה (aqueduct, channel, conduit, culvert, ditch, gutter, sewer, water course), אמת מים (aqueduct), צנור (channel, ditch, duct, hose, jet, pipe, spout, tube). (various references) | |
Hungarian | csatorna (aqueduct, channel, conduit, course, delf, delft, ditch, drain, duct, flume, furrow, gutter, tubule, watercourse). (various references) | |
Indonesian | terusan (canalize, waterway), saluran (channel, dike, duct, shoot), kanal (channel). (various references) | |
Irish | canÚil (channel). (various references) | |
Italian | canale (channel, cut, ditch, drain, duct, gully, program, programme, trough). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 下水溝 (drainage ditch), 堀 (moat). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | そすい, うんが (waterway), ほりかわ, ほりわり (ditch, waterway), ほりえ, ほり (constable, moat), こうきょ (death, demise, ditch, elevation, Imperial Palace, official government permission, opposition, resistance, sewer), げすいこう (drainage ditch). (various references) | |
Korean | 운 (fortune, luck, rhymed, rhyming). (various references) | |
Malay | terusan (channel). (various references) | |
Manx | canail, ammyr (bed, bed river, channel, trough). (various references) | |
Norwegian | kanal (channel). (various references) | |
Papiamen | kanal (channel). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | analcay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | canal (conduit, deferent, dike, duct, dyke, fosse, gat, gate, gullet, hollow, isthmus, meatus, outlet, runway, tube, watercourse, water-way). (various references) | |
Romanian | canal (channel, conduit, ditch, duct, flume, Fosse, gut, gutter, hose, jet, sewer, sound, the airways, trough). (various references) | |
Russian | канал (aqueduct, channel, conduit, duct, pass, tract, watercourse). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | kanalski, kanal (channel). (various references) | |
Spanish | canal (channel, dike, duct, dyke, gutter, side, sluice, track, trough, watercourse). (various references) | |
Sranan | kanari (canary, channel). (various references) | |
Swahili | njia ya maji (channel). (various references) | |
Swedish | kanal (channel, conduit, duct, gully, passage, track). (various references) | |
Thai | คลอง. (various references) | |
Turkish | kanal (chamfer, channel, chute, conduit, culvert, dike, drain, duct, flume, gullet, gully, meatus, pass, passage, station, vessel). (various references) | |
Turkmen | kanal (r). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | рів (dike, ditch, moat, thorough, trench), трубка, канава (delf, outfall, runnel), канал (aqueduct, artery, channel, deferent, ditch, feeder, sluice, watercourse), отвір (air gap, aperture, bore, boring, breach, break, clearance, embrasure, gape, hole, mesh, mouth, open, opening, orifice, ostiole, perforation, port, ventage, window), з'єднувати каналом, жолоб (apron, chamfer, channel, chute, flume, fuller, gutter, outfall, penstock, rut), прохід (access, alleyway, duct, gangway, orifice, pass, passageway, passover, thoroughfare, walkway), проводити канал (channel). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | kênh (bank). (various references) | |
Welsh | camlas, dyfrffos (aqueduct, watercourse). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | a, tul. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | canalibus, canalis, via. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "canal": canaled, canalicular, canaliculi, canaliculus, canaling, canalise, canalised, canalises, canalising, canalization, canalizations, canalize, canalized, canalizes, canalizing, canalled, canaller, canallers, canalling, canals. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "canal": decanal. (additional references) | |
Words containing "canal": recanalization, recanalizations, recanalize, recanalized, recanalizes, recanalizing. (additional references) | |
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"Canal" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Achanalt, Acknell, caal, caan, Cadnam, caja, Calan, canaa, canable, Canac, canae, Canalejo, canali, canan, canap, canar, canas, canat, canaul, Cancale, candal, Candau, canel, Canham, cannal, cannol, canol, Cansap, cantal, canwal, Casal, catal, Cazal, Cazale, Cazaly, cena, Cenap, cenel, cenil, Cenwald, cina, cinel, Cinna, Conall, Conval, cranal, cranaly, Cuanza, Cuna, cunan, Cunnah, Cunwald, cyana, cyanol, Danjal, Kanael, kanal, Kenal, Khanal, sanal. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "canal" (pronounced kuna"l) |
| 4 | -u n a" l | rationale. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-l-n" | |
-1 letter: alan, anal, clan. | |
-2 letters: aal, ala, ana, can, lac. | |
-3 letters: aa, al, an, la, na. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-l-n" | |
+1 letter: anlace, callan, canals, canola, canula, carnal, lacuna. | |
+2 letters: actinal, almanac, ancilla, anconal, anlaces, balance, calando, callans, callant, canaled, candela, canella, cannula, canolas, cantala, canthal, canulae, canulas, capelan, carinal, clachan, clamant, claypan, cranial, decanal, lactean, lacunae, lacunal, lacunar, lacunas, manacle, scandal, valance. | |
+3 letters: acauline, achenial, alliance, almanacs, anabolic, analcime, analcite, analecta, analects, analogic, analytic, ancillae, ancillas, anconeal, angelica, animalic, antalgic, anyplace, backland, balanced, balancer, balances, barnacle, blatancy, calamine, calamint, calcanea, calcanei, calendal, calendar, callants, canaille, canaling, canalise, canalize, canalled, canaller, candelas, canellas, cannibal, cannulae, cannular, cannulas, cantalas, cantonal, canulate, capelans, cardinal, carnally, carnival, chaplain, clachans, claimant, clansman, claybank, claypans, coplanar, craaling, diaconal, dulciana, eulachan, flancard, gallican, galvanic, lacunars, lacunary, lacunate, laitance, manacled, manacles, mandalic, maniacal, monachal, nautical, octantal, oolachan, parlance, placeman, placenta, santalic, scabland, scalepan, scandals, tantalic, tenacula, vacantly, vaccinal, valanced, valances, valencia, valiance, valiancy, vandalic. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Sounds 10. Quotations: Familiar 11. Quotations: Historic 12. Quotations: Fiction | 13. Quotations: Non-fiction 14. Quotations: Speeches 15. Usage Frequency 16. Names: Frequency | 17. Names: Company Usage 18. Expressions 19. Expressions: Internet 20. Translations: Modern | 21. Translations: Ancient 22. Abbreviations 23. Acronyms 24. Derivations | 25. Rhymes 26. Anagrams 27. Bibliography |
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