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canal

The correct spelling is canal.

How to pronounce canal

/kəˈnɛl/
noun

IPA: /kəˈnɛl/

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The correct spelling is canal. An artificial waterway or artificially improved river used for travel, shipping, or irrigation.

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Meanings

noun

  1. 1.An artificial waterway or artificially improved river used for travel, shipping, or irrigation.
  2. 2.A tubular channel within the body.
  3. 3.One of the faint, hazy markings resembling straight lines on early telescopic images of the surface of Mars.

verb

  1. 1.To dig an artificial waterway in or to (a place), especially for drainage
  2. 2.To travel along a canal by boat

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