CANALS Synonyms
There are 13 hypernyms of the word canals. (close relations)
Definition of CANALS
Best Alternative Words for CANALS
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channels | verb, nounv, n | |||||||
noun • official routes of communication | ||||||||
aqueducts | nounn | |||||||
noun • a conduit that resembles a bridge but carries water over a valley | ||||||||
conduits | nounn | |||||||
noun • a passage (a pipe or tunnel) through which water or electric wires can pass | ||||||||
ditches | nounn | |||||||
noun • a long narrow excavation in the earth • any small natural waterway verb • forsake • throw away • sever all ties with, usually unceremoniously or irresponsibly • make an emergency landing on water • crash or crash-land • cut a trench in, as for drainage | ||||||||
watercourses | nounn | |||||||
noun • natural or artificial channel through which water flows • a natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth • a conduit through which water flows | ||||||||
waterways | nounn | |||||||
noun • a navigable body of water • a conduit through which water flows | ||||||||
canalise | verbv | |||||||
verb • provide (a city) with a canal | ||||||||
canalize | verbv | |||||||
verb • provide (a city) with a canal | ||||||||
channel | verb, nounv, n | |||||||
noun • a path over which electrical signals can pass • a passage for water (or other fluids) to flow through • a long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process (such as erosion) or by a tool (as e.g. a groove in a phonograph record) • a deep and relatively narrow body of water (as in a river or a harbor or a strait linking two larger bodies) that allows the best passage for vessels • (often plural) a means of communication or access • a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance • a television station and its programs • a way of selling a company's product either directly or via distributors verb • transmit or serve as the medium for transmission • direct the flow of • send from one person or place to another | ||||||||
duct | verb, nounv, n | |||||||
noun • a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance • a continuous tube formed by a row of elongated cells lacking intervening end walls • an enclosed conduit for a fluid | ||||||||
epithelial duct | nounn | |||||||
noun • a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance |