Canal vs. Stream

Canalnoun

An artificial waterway or artificially improved river used for travel, shipping, or irrigation.

Canalnoun

(anatomy) A tubular channel within the body.

Canalnoun

(astronomy) One of the faint, hazy markings resembling straight lines on early telescopic images of the surface of Mars.

Canalverb

To dig an artificial waterway in or to (a place), especially for drainage

Canalverb

To travel along a canal by boat

Canalnoun

An artificial channel filled with water and designed for navigation, or for irrigating land, etc.

Canalnoun

A tube or duct; as, the alimentary canal; the semicircular canals of the ear.

Canalnoun

A long and relatively narrow arm of the sea, approximately uniform in width; - used chiefly in proper names; as, Portland Canal; Lynn Canal.

Canalnoun

(astronomy) an indistinct surface feature of Mars once thought to be a system of channels; they are now believed to be an optical illusion

Canalnoun

a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance;

Canalnoun

long and narrow strip of water made for boats or for irrigation

Canalverb

provide (a city) with a canal

Canalnoun

an artificial waterway constructed to allow the passage of boats or ships inland or to convey water for irrigation

Canalnoun

a tubular duct in a plant or animal, serving to convey or contain food, liquid, or air

Canalnoun

any of a number of linear markings formerly reported as seen by telescope on the planet Mars.

Canal

Canals are waterway channels, or artificial waterways, for water conveyance, or for servicing water transport vehicles. They carry free surface flow under atmospheric pressure, and can be thought of as artificial rivers.

Streamnoun

A small river; a large creek; a body of moving water confined by banks.

Streamnoun

A thin connected passing of a liquid through a lighter gas (e.g. air).

Streamnoun

Any steady flow or succession of material, such as water, air, radio signal or words.

Streamnoun

All moving waters.

Streamnoun

(computing) A source or repository of data that can be read or written only sequentially.

Streamnoun

(figurative) A particular path, channel, division, or way of proceeding.

Streamnoun

A division of a school year by perceived ability.

Streamverb

(intransitive) To flow in a continuous or steady manner, like a liquid.

Streamverb

To extend; to stretch out with a wavy motion; to float in the wind.

Streamverb

(Internet) To push continuous data (e.g. music) from a server to a client computer while it is being used (played) on the client.

Streamnoun

A current of water or other fluid; a liquid flowing continuously in a line or course, either on the earth, as a river, brook, etc., or from a vessel, reservoir, or fountain; specifically, any course of running water; as, many streams are blended in the Mississippi; gas and steam came from the earth in streams; a stream of molten lead from a furnace; a stream of lava from a volcano.

Streamnoun

A beam or ray of light.

Streamnoun

Anything issuing or moving with continued succession of parts; as, a stream of words; a stream of sand.

Streamnoun

A continued current or course; as, a stream of weather.

Streamnoun

Current; drift; tendency; series of tending or moving causes; as, the stream of opinions or manners.

Streamverb

To issue or flow in a stream; to flow freely or in a current, as a fluid or whatever is likened to fluids; as, tears streamed from her eyes.

Streamverb

To pour out, or emit, a stream or streams.

Streamverb

To issue in a stream of light; to radiate.

Streamverb

To extend; to stretch out with a wavy motion; to float in the wind; as, a flag streams in the wind.

Streamverb

To send forth in a current or stream; to cause to flow; to pour; as, his eyes streamed tears.

Streamverb

To mark with colors or embroidery in long tracts.

Streamverb

To unfurl.

Streamnoun

a natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth

Streamnoun

dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas;

Streamnoun

a steady flow (usually from natural causes);

Streamnoun

the act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression

Streamnoun

something that resembles a flowing stream in moving continuously;

Streamverb

to extend, wave or float outward, as if in the wind;

Streamverb

exude profusely;

Streamverb

move in large numbers;

Streamverb

rain heavily;

Streamverb

flow freely and abundantly;

Streamnoun

a small, narrow river

Streamnoun

a continuous flow of liquid, air, or gas

Streamnoun

a mass of people or things moving continuously in the same direction

Streamnoun

a large number of things that happen or come one after the other

Streamnoun

a continuous flow of data or instructions, typically one having a constant or predictable rate.

Streamnoun

a continuous flow of video and audio material transmitted or received over the Internet.

Streamnoun

a group in which schoolchildren of the same age and ability are taught.

Streamverb

(of liquid, air, gas, etc.) run or flow in a continuous current in a specified direction

Streamverb

(of a mass of people or things) move in a continuous flow in a specified direction

Streamverb

run with tears, sweat, or other liquid

Streamverb

(of hair, clothing, etc.) float or wave at full extent in the wind

Streamverb

transmit or receive (data, especially video and audio material) over the Internet as a steady, continuous flow.

Streamverb

put (schoolchildren) in groups of the same age and ability to be taught together.

Stream

A stream is a body of water with surface water flowing within the bed and banks of a channel. The flow of a stream is controlled by three inputs – surface water, subsurface water and groundwater.