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Canal vs Bays - What's the difference?

canal | bays |

As nouns the difference between canal and bays

is that canal is an artificial waterway, often connecting one body of water with another while bays is plural of lang=en.

As verbs the difference between canal and bays

is that canal is to dig an artificial waterway in or to (a place), especially for drainage while bays is third-person singular of bay.

canal

English

(wikipedia canal)

Noun

(en noun)
  • An artificial waterway, often connecting one body of water with another
  • A tubular channel within the body.
  • Verb

  • To dig an artificial waterway in or to (a place), especially for drainage
  • * {{quote-book, year=1968, title=Proceedings, author=Louisiana State University, page=165 citation
  • , passage= In the mangrove-type salt marsh, the entire marsh must be canaled or impounded. }}
  • To travel along a canal by boat
  • * {{quote-book, year=1905, author=William Yoast Morgan, title=A Journey of a Jayhawker, page=211, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=vTELAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA211
  • , passage=Near Rotterdam we canalled by Delfthaven.}} ----

    bays

    English

    Etymology 1

    Inflections.

    Noun

    (head)
  • Verb

    (head)
  • (bay)
  • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) baies, feminine plural form of .

    Noun

    (-)
  • (obsolete) Baize.