CANAL
What does "CANAL" mean?
An artificial waterway built for boats, irrigation, or drainage.
Meanings
- A man-made channel of water for navigation, irrigation, or carrying water. Barges drift slowly along the canal through the city's old quarter.
- A tube-like passage or duct in the body of an animal or plant. The dentist said the infection had reached the root canal. technical
Did you know?
- The Panama Canal doesn't cut a flat path between the oceans - its locks lift each ship about 26 metres uphill, over the high ground of the isthmus, then lower it back down to the sea on the other side.
Word origin
From Latin 'canalis' ('pipe, channel, groove'), from 'canna' ('reed, tube'); into French 'canal' and then English.
Remember it
CANAL reads the same backbone as a channel - both carry water in a man-made line; hear 'CAN-AL' as the can-shaped tube water flows along.
A little poem
A river with rules-
straight where the land would have curved,
patient as the locks.
haiku
Wordplay
- My dentist and my geography teacher both love the same thing: a good canal that takes the pressure off.
What it teaches
Sometimes progress means cutting a straight line where nature drew a longer one.
Quick facts
What does CANAL mean?
An artificial waterway built for boats, irrigation, or drainage.
Is CANAL a valid word?
Yes — CANAL is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is CANAL?
CANAL has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does CANAL come from?
From Latin 'canalis' ('pipe, channel, groove'), from 'canna' ('reed, tube'); into French 'canal' and then English.
What can CANAL teach us?
Sometimes progress means cutting a straight line where nature drew a longer one.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.