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Canal vs Terrain - What's the difference?

canal | terrain |

As nouns the difference between canal and terrain

is that canal is canal while terrain is territory, ground,.

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.}} ----

    terrain

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (geology) A single, distinctive rock formation; an area having a preponderance of a particular rock or group of rocks.
  • An area of land or the particular features of it.
  • Synonyms

    * ground

    Anagrams

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