ship canal
- noun
- /ʃɪp kəˈnæl/
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canal de navegación
- Instead of taking land patents next to a ship canal they had undertaken to build in the center of the peninsula, they brazenly went 100 miles south and seized the fabulous copper lands held off the market.
Examples
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Many seagoing vessels now use the ship canal to avoid dangerous coastal routes.
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My uncle had a summer home on the ship canal, that extension of Portage Lake that permits Great Lakes shipping a shortcut through the Keweenaw Peninsula.
Academic text (1990) -
We spent our second night under a tree by a busy ship canal.
Academic text (2009) -
My theory is that parking is severely limited, expensive, and that there is decent, although high-priced, housing nearby on Capitol Hill and South Lake Union, and folks living just north of the ship canal can easily ride in.
Blog text (16) -
Much of I-5 at and south of the ship canal is an elevated viaduct on a hill and/or a tall bridge (or tunneled under convention centers, etc.).
Blog text (16) -
The new ship canal will greatly benefit trade by allowing larger vessels to reach the inland ports.
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Construction on the ship canal started last year, aiming to connect two major bodies of water for shipping purposes.
Synonyms
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2.0
A man-made water channel for boats and for watering fields
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2.3
A river, canal, or channel that boats use to travel
A canal wide and deep enough for ships to pass through
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning ‘a canal wide and deep enough for seagoing ships’ is directly and transparently derived from combining 'ship' (a seafaring vessel) with 'canal' (an engineered water channel). This straightforward noun+noun compounding follows common compositional patterns cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Ship canal comes from the simple idea of building a canal cut wide and deep so a ship can pass through land instead of sailing all the way around. That's why the term means 'a canal wide and deep enough to allow seagoing ships to pass through'.