canal
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(verb) provide with a canal, as of a city |
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Synonyms: canalize |
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Related Words: furnish, provide, render, supply |
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(noun) long and narrow strip of water made for boats or for irrigation |
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Related Words: Erie Canal, channel, conduit, cut, industrial watercourse, race, raceway, ship canal, shipway |
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(noun) (astronomy) an indistinct surface feature of Mars once thought to be a system of channels; they are now believed to be an optical illusion |
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Related Words: channel, sound |
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(noun) a bodily passage or tube conveying a secretion or other substance |
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Synonyms: channel, duct |
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Related Words: GI tract, Sylvian aqueduct, alimentary canal, alimentary tract, aqueductus cerebri, bile duct, canaliculus, canalis cervicis uteri, canalis vertebralis, cerebral aqueduct, cervical canal, common bile duct, digestive tract, digestive tube, ductule, ductulus, ejaculatory duct, epididymis, gastrointestinal tract, hepatic duct, lachrymal duct, lacrimal duct, lymph vessel, lymphatic vessel, pancreatic duct, passage, passageway, pore, salivary duct, seminal duct, sinus, spinal canal, umbilical cord, ureter, urethra, vagina, vas deferens, venous sinus, vertebral canal |
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