Trench vs. Canal

Trenchnoun

A long, narrow ditch or hole dug in the ground.

Trenchnoun

(military) A narrow excavation as used in warfare, as a cover for besieging or emplaced forces.

Trenchnoun

(archaeology) A pit, usually rectangular with smooth walls and floor, excavated during an archaeological investigation.

Trenchnoun

(informal) A trench coat.

Trenchverb

}} To invade, especially with regard to the rights or the exclusive authority of another; to encroach.

Trenchverb

To excavate an elongated pit for protection of soldiers and or equipment, usually perpendicular to the line of sight toward the enemy.

Trenchverb

(archaeology) To excavate an elongated and often narrow pit.

Trenchverb

To have direction; to aim or tend.

Trenchverb

To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, etc.

Trenchverb

To cut furrows or ditches in.

Trenchverb

To dig or cultivate very deeply, usually by digging parallel contiguous trenches in succession, filling each from the next.

Trenchverb

To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, or the like.

Trenchverb

To fortify by cutting a ditch, and raising a rampart or breastwork with the earth thrown out of the ditch; to intrench.

Trenchverb

To cut furrows or ditches in; as, to trench land for the purpose of draining it.

Trenchverb

To dig or cultivate very deeply, usually by digging parallel contiguous trenches in succession, filling each from the next; as, to trench a garden for certain crops.

Trenchverb

To encroach; to intrench.

Trenchverb

To have direction; to aim or tend.

Trenchnoun

A long, narrow cut in the earth; a ditch; as, a trench for draining land.

Trenchnoun

An alley; a narrow path or walk cut through woods, shrubbery, or the like.

Trenchnoun

An excavation made during a siege, for the purpose of covering the troops as they advance toward the besieged place. The term includes the parallels and the approaches.

Trenchnoun

a ditch dug as a fortification having a parapet of the excavated earth

Trenchnoun

a long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor

Trenchnoun

any long ditch cut in the ground

Trenchverb

impinge or infringe upon;

Trenchverb

fortify by surrounding with trenches;

Trenchverb

cut or carve deeply into;

Trenchverb

set, plant, or bury in a trench;

Trenchverb

cut a trench in, as for drainage;

Trenchverb

dig a trench or trenches;

Trenchnoun

a long, narrow ditch

Trenchnoun

a long, narrow ditch dug by troops to provide a place of shelter from enemy fire.

Trenchnoun

a connected system of long, narrow ditches forming an army's line.

Trenchnoun

the battlefields of northern France and Belgium in the First World War

Trenchnoun

a long, narrow, deep depression in the ocean bed, typically one running parallel to a plate boundary and marking a subduction zone

Trenchnoun

a trench coat.

Trenchverb

dig a trench or trenches in (the ground)

Trenchverb

turn over the earth of (a field or garden) by digging a succession of adjoining ditches.

Trenchverb

border closely on; encroach on

Trench

A trench is a type of excavation or depression in the ground that is generally deeper than it is wide (as opposed to a wider gully, or ditch), and narrow compared with its length (as opposed to a simple hole or pit).In geology, trenches result from erosion by rivers or by geological movement of tectonic plates. In civil engineering, trenches are often created to install underground utilities such as gas, water, power and communication lines.

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.