Canal

Noun

 * 1) An artificial waterway, often connecting one body of water with another
 * 2) A tubular channel within the body.

Verb

 * 1) To dig an artificial waterway in or to (a place), especially for drainage
 * 2) To travel along a canal by boat

Adjectives for Canal
shining; picturesque; slender; enchanting; stagnant; inland; crude; sluggish; beautiful; tree-lined; intestinal; vast; network practicable; intracoastal; alimentary; auditory; winding; lotuspaved; irregular; pestiferous; tortuous; marble-lined; glittering; terrestrial; ribbonlike; semicircular; shadowed; vestigial.

Verbs for Canal
bank—; block—; border by—; bridge—; circle—; construct—; drain—; dredge—; fortify—; lay out—; line—; lock—; navigate—; obstruct—; project—; tow through—; —communicates; —connects; —conveys; — irrigates; —retains; —shortens; —unites.

Related terms

 * channel
 * channelization
 * channelize
 * canalization
 * canalize

Thesaurus
pass, pleat, plow, pore, rabbet, race, rifle, river bed, riverway, runnel, rut, salpinx, score, scratch, slit, sluice, spillbox, spillway, strait, streak, stream bed, streamway, striate, sunk fence, swash, swash channel, tailrace, thoracic duct, throat, trench, trough, ureter, urethra, vagina, vas, vessel, wadi, water carrier, water channel, water furrow, water gap, water gate, watercourse, waterway, waterworks, wrinkle, aqueduct, arroyo, bed, bottleneck, canalization, canalize, carve, chamfer, channel, chisel, conduit, corrugate, course, crack, creek bed, crimp, culvert, cut, dado, defile, dike, ditch, donga, dry bed, duct, emunctory, engrave, entrenchment, fistula, flume, flute, fosse, furrow, gash, goffer, gouge, groove, gulch, gully, gullyhole, gutter, ha-ha, headrace, incise, intestines, irrigation ditch, isthmus, kennel, meatus, moat, narrow, narrows, neck, nullah, ostium, oviduct,

Etymology
From canalis:.