canal
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1. canal - Noun
2. canal - Verb
3. Canal - Proper noun
Meaning
An artificial channel filled with water and designed for navigation, or for irrigating land, etc.
A tube or duct; as, the alimentary canal; the semicircular canals of the ear.
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Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other.
A new State of Israel with broad frontiers, strong and solid, with the authority of the Israel Government extending from the Jordan to the Suez Canal.
As was to be expected, the discovery of the nervous apparatus of the salivary glands immediately impelled physiologists to seek a similar apparatus in other glands lying deeper in the digestive canal.
Our quarrel is not with Egypt, still less with the Arab world. It is with Colonel Nasser. He has shown that he is not a man who can be trusted to keep an agreement. Now he has torn up all his country's promises to the Suez Canal Company and has even gone back on his own statements.
Who's Britannica to tell me that the Panama Canal was built in 1914? If I want to say that it was built in 1941, that's my right as an American.
One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal.