canal
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6.2
- noun
- /kəˈnæl/
- Specialized
:
canal
- A gap in the wall makes way for a bridge across the canal but could admit floodwater.
- ear canal
- auditory canal
- external auditory canal
And I feel like we've we've sort of emerge through the birth canal and we're still unsettled.
- And I feel like we've we've sort of emerge through the birth canal and we're still unsettled.
- And so I got this surgery last week where they go inside of your not your brain, but in your face and they widen your breathing canals.
- I've always wanted to do those custom earbuds that are like molded to your ear canal.
- When they come through the vaginal canal, it sees their gut.
- Usually the finals are what exactly lands inside my ear canals.
- How the exits of libraries in my psychoanalyst office became birth canals?
- So but then as you leave the church, you go through the arch, which is the birth canal.
- It's at most hitting the base like it's knocking on the door, the vaginal canal.
- Ear canal, ear canal into your ear canal.
- It, it's going to burst the, the birth canal if it's there in the womb.
Examples
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The two main parts of the inner ear are the semicircular canals and the cochlea.
Academic text (1990) -
My ear canals are very sensitive.
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This thing lived in my ear canal for a day.
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That long trip down the birth canal.
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So we wait for low tide, and then close off the water lock at the mouth of the grand canal.
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The auricle is downy and snow white; the ear canal is dark and bottomless.
Fiction book (1995) -
The turbid water invades the banks of the canals; the bridges, their stone slabs, made insidiously slippery.
Fiction book (1997) -
This thing lived in my ear canal for a day.
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As he is squeezed through the birth canal, he picks up millions of bacteria from his mother.
Synonyms
680
2.0
A long hollow thing like a pipe that carries liquids or gases, sometimes inside the body
145
4.1
A tube that carries a liquid or gas from one place to another
141
4.0
A tube in the body that carries blood or lymph
10
7.0
A small tube in the body that carries liquids like sweat or tears
1
8.3
A tube in the body that carries fluids like blood or bile
A tube in the body lined with thin cells that carries a fluid like saliva or mucus
Compounds
11
2.5
A man-made waterway in Panama that lets ships travel between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
- Specialized
7
3.5
A passage from a mother's womb through the vagina that a baby passes during childbirth
6
3.5
A ship canal in northeast Egypt that connects the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea
2
4.0
A large S-shaped waterway that runs through Venice and is lined with old buildings
1
7.2
A strip of land across Panama with the Panama Canal that the United States once ran
- Specialized
1
7.8
Circular channel in the eye that drains fluid into veins to keep eye pressure normal
- Specialized
1
7.5
A small channel in bone that contains blood vessels and soft tissue
1
6.0
A strip of land across Panama that included the Panama Canal and was controlled by the United States until 1979
- Specialized
1
6.1
A curved tube in the inner ear that helps you keep balance when your head turns
A canal in northern Scotland that connects the North Sea and the Atlantic Ocean
A canal in southern Florida that links Lake Okeechobee to the Caloosahatchee River
- Specialized
A narrow tube inside the lower part of the womb that connects to the vagina
- Specialized
A long tube that runs from the mouth to the anus and carries food during digestion
A canal in Sweden that connects the Baltic Sea with Lake Vänern so small ships can cross the country
- Specialized
A narrow passage in the lower belly that lets the testicles or a band of tissue pass through
A system of canals in New York State that links the Great Lakes, the Hudson River and Lake Champlain
A system of canals across New York State that links the Great Lakes with the Hudson River and Lake Champlain
- Specialized
A small circular channel in the eye that drains fluid from the front of the eye into nearby veins
- Specialized
A passage formed by the bones of the spine that holds the spinal cord
How Wide
Surface Forms
Etymology
The body meaning of canal also comes from Latin canalis 'pipe', so a body canal is like a small 'pipe' or passage that carries fluid or other things inside the body.