Definition of Canal

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Definition of Canal

Canal

An artificial channel filled with water and designed for navigation, or for irrigating land, etc.

A tube or duct; as, the alimentary canal; the semicircular canals of the ear.

A long and relatively narrow arm of the sea, approximately uniform in width; -- used chiefly in proper names; as, Portland Canal; Lynn Canal.

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Canal Quotations

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a loud voice at one end and no responsibility at the other.
Ronald Reagan

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
Ronald Reagan

I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also.
Theodore Roosevelt

Finally, as the digestive canal is a complex system, a series of separate chemical laboratories, I cut the connections between them in order to investigate the course of phenomena in each particular laboratory; thus I resolved the digestive canal into several separate parts.
Ivan Pavlov

The digestive canal represents a tube passing through the entire organism and communicating with the external world, i.e. as it were the external surface of the body, but turned inwards and thus hidden in the organism.
Ivan Pavlov

The physiologist who succeeds in penetrating deeper and deeper into the digestive canal becomes convinced that it consists of a number of chemical laboratories equipped with various mechanical devices.
Ivan Pavlov

As was to be expected, the discovery of the nervous apparatus of the salivary glands immediately impelled physiologists to seek a similar apparatus in other glands lying deeper in the digestive canal.
Ivan Pavlov

The most important event I covered was the Panama Canal debate, which dragged on for months.
Jessica Savitch

My first movie was this independent that I did on the Erie Canal in 1995, called Erie, that I don't know if you could even get, actually with Felicity Huffman. And then from that I did this film that was eventually called The Broken Giant later that fall. And then I kind of started getting into doing pilots.
Will Arnett

In the United States three new methods of transportation made their appearance at almost the same time - the steamboat, the canal boat, and the rail car.
John Moody

Canal Translations

canal in Afrikaans is kanaal
canal in Danish is kanal
canal in Dutch is wijk, gracht, vaart, kanaal
canal in Finnish is kanava
canal in French is canal
canal in German is Kanal
canal in Hungarian is csatorna
canal in Italian is canale
canal in Norwegian is kanal
canal in Spanish is canal, almenara
canal in Swedish is kanal

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