Canal vs Dyke - What's the difference?
canal | dyke |
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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(Australia, slang) A toilet.
(UK) A ditch (rarely also refers to similar natural features, and to one natural valley, Devil's Dyke, Sussex, due to a legend that the devil dug it).
(UK, mainly S England) An earthwork consisting of a ditch and a parallel rampart.
(British) An embankment to prevent inundation, or a causeway.
(UK, mainly Scotland and N England) A mound of earth, stone- or turf-faced, sometimes topped with hedge planting, or a hedge alone, used as a fence.
(UK, mainly Scotland and N England) A dry-stone wall usually forming a boundary to a wood, field or garden.
(British, geology) A body of once molten igneous rock that was injected into older rocks in a manner that crosses bedding planes.
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As nouns the difference between canal and dyke
is that canal is an artificial waterway, often connecting one body of water with another while dyke is an alternative spelling of lang=en.As a verb canal
is to dig an artificial waterway in or to (a place), especially for drainage.canal
English
(wikipedia canal)Noun
(en noun)Verb
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dyke
English
(wikipedia dyke)Etymology 1
Variant of (dike).Noun
(en noun)- 1977 , In Cubbaroo's dim distant past
They built a double dyke.
Back to back in the yard it stood
An architectural dream in wood''
— Ian Slack-Smith, ''The Passing of the Twin Seater'', from ''The Cubbaroo Tales'', 1977. Quoted in ''Aussie Humour , Macmillan, 1988, ISBN 0-7251-0553-4, page 235.