canal英语原文释义、词形变化、词源和词汇关系

英文释义

名词 n.

An artificial waterway or artificially improved river used for travel, shipping, or irrigation.
A tubular channel within the body or within a plant.

— The fossilised jaw of T. trusleri has a huge canal running through it and that’s believed to have carried all the nerve and related tissue needed for the sense of electroception.
One of the faint, hazy markings resembling straight lines on early telescopic images of the surface of Mars; see Martian canals

动词 v.

To dig an artificial waterway in or to (a place), especially for drainage

— In the mangrove-type salt marsh, the entire marsh must be canaled or impounded.
To travel along a canal by boat

— Near Rotterdam we canalled by Delfthaven.

词形变化

canals plural canals present,singular,third-person canalling participle,present canalled participle,past canalled past

词汇关系

衍生词

alar canal alimentary canal auditory canal birth canal C&D Canal canalage canal basin canal boat canal bridge canal coal Canal Foot canalicule canaliferous canaliform canalise canalize canaller canalman canal of Hering canal of Nuck canal of Schlemm canalogram canalography canalolith canalolithiasis canaloplasty canalotomy canalside Canal Street carpal canal central canal cervical canal cloud canal Corinth Canal ear canal external auditory canal femoral canal food canal Gaertner's canal Gartner's canal Haversian canal hyaloid canal incisive canal inguinal canal intercanal internal auditory canal intracanal lacrimal canal Laurer's canal love canal mandibular canal minicanal nanocanal nerve of the pterygoid canal neural canal neurenteric canal noncanal Panama Canal pterygoid canal radial canal root canal sand canal Schlemm's canal semicircular canal ship canal spinal canal stone canal Suez Canal Tribeca triosseal canal vertebral canal

词源

词源 1

Borrowed from Middle French canal, from Old French canal, from Latin canālis (“channel, canal, narrow passage”), from canna (“reed, cane”), from Ancient Greek κάννα (kánna, “reed”), from Akkadian 𒄀 (qanû, “reed”), from Sumerian 𒄀𒈾 (gi.na). Doublet of channel. See also cane and -al.

词源 2

Borrowed from Middle French canal, from Old French canal, from Latin canālis (“channel, canal, narrow passage”), from canna (“reed, cane”), from Ancient Greek κάννα (kánna, “reed”), from Akkadian 𒄀 (qanû, “reed”), from Sumerian 𒄀𒈾 (gi.na). Doublet of channel. See also cane and -al.