Canal vs Catchdrain - What's the difference?
canal | catchdrain |
An artificial waterway, often connecting one body of water with another
A tubular channel within the body.
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
, 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.}}
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A ditch or drain along the side of a hill or canal, to catch the surface water.
(Webster 1913)
As nouns the difference between canal and catchdrain
is that canal is canal while catchdrain is a ditch or drain along the side of a hill or canal, to catch the surface water.canal
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(wikipedia canal)Noun
(en noun)Verb
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