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語源

Borrowed from Middle French canal, from Old French canal, from Latin canālis (“channel, canal, narrow passage”), from canna (“reed, cane”), from Ancient Greek κάννα (kánna, “reed”), from Akkadian 𒄀 (qanû, “reed”). Doublet of channel. See also cane and -al.

発音

• enPR: kə-năl
  • (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada, Australia) IPA: /kəˈnæl/
  • (Standard Southern British, Northern England, Scotland, Wales) IPA: /kəˈnal/
  • (New Zealand) IPA: /kəˈnɛl/
  • 韻: -æl

• enPR: kə-nĕl
  • (Canada also) IPA: /kəˈnɛl/
• (obsolete, nonstandard) IPA: /kəˈnɔːl/

名詞

canal (plural canals)

1. An artificial waterway or artificially improved river used for travel, shipping, or irrigation.
2. (anatomy, botany) A tubular channel within the body or within a plant.
   • 2022 March 29, Karen McGee, “Stunning breakthrough: the platypus and echidnas came from the South Pole”, in Australian Geographic‎:

     The fossilised jaw of T. trusleri has a huge canal running through it and that’s believed to have carried all the nerve and related tissue needed for the sense of electroception.

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

使用する際の注意点

• Occasionally applied to similar natural waterways, such as Hood Canal.

派生語

関連する語

• channel
• channelization
• channelize
• canalization

派生した語

• → Scottish Gaelic: canàl

動詞

canal (third-person singular simple present canals, present participle canalling, simple past and past participle canalled)

1. To dig an artificial waterway in or to (a place), especially for drainage
   • 1968, Louisiana State University, Proceedings‎, page 165:

     In the mangrove-type salt marsh, the entire marsh must be canaled or impounded.

2. To travel along a canal by boat
   • 1905, William Yoast Morgan, A Journey of a Jayhawker, page 211:

     Near Rotterdam we canalled by Delfthaven.

参照

アナグラム

• Alcan, Clana, Nalca