Drainage vs. Canal

Drainagenoun

A natural or artificial removal of surface and sub-surface water from a given area.

Drainagenoun

A system of drains.

Drainagenoun

A draining; a gradual flowing off of any liquid; also, that which flows out of a drain.

Drainagenoun

The mode in which the waters of a country pass off by its streams and rivers.

Drainagenoun

The system of drains and their operation, by which superfluous water is removed from towns, railway beds, mines, and other works.

Drainagenoun

Area or district drained; as, the drainage of the Po, the Thames, etc.

Drainagenoun

The act, process, or means of drawing off the pus or fluids from a wound, abscess, etc.

Drainagenoun

emptying accomplished by draining

Drainage

Drainage is the natural or artificial removal of a surface's water and sub-surface water from an area with excess of water. The internal drainage of most agricultural soils is good enough to prevent severe waterlogging (anaerobic conditions that harm root growth), but many soils need artificial drainage to improve production or to manage water supplies.

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.