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Canal vs Conal - What's the difference?

canal | conal |

As a noun canal

is canal.

As an adjective conal is

shaped like a cone or funnel; conic.

canal

English

(wikipedia canal)

Noun

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

    • Related terms

    * channel * channelization * channelize * canalization * canalize

    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.}} ----

    conal

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • shaped like a cone or funnel; conic

    • Derived terms

    * conal artery

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