Canal vs. Stream
Difference Between Canal and Stream
Canalnoun
An artificial waterway or artificially improved river used for travel, shipping, or irrigation.
Streamnoun
A small river; a large creek; a body of moving water confined by banks.
Canalnoun
(anatomy) A tubular channel within the body.
Streamnoun
A thin connected passing of a liquid through a lighter gas (e.g. air).
He poured the milk in a thin stream from the jug to the glass.Canalnoun
(astronomy) One of the faint, hazy markings resembling straight lines on early telescopic images of the surface of Mars.
Streamnoun
Any steady flow or succession of material, such as water, air, radio signal or words.
Her constant nagging was to him a stream of abuse.Canalverb
To dig an artificial waterway in or to (a place), especially for drainage
Streamnoun
All moving waters.
Canalverb
To travel along a canal by boat
Streamnoun
(computing) A source or repository of data that can be read or written only sequentially.
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
Streamnoun
(figurative) A particular path, channel, division, or way of proceeding.
Haredi Judaism is a stream of Orthodox Judaism characterized by rejection of modern secular culture.Canalnoun
a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance;
the tear duct was obstructedthe alimentary canalpoison is released through a channel in the snake's fangsStreamnoun
A division of a school year by perceived ability.
All of the bright kids went into the A stream, but I was in the B stream.Canalnoun
long and narrow strip of water made for boats or for irrigation
Streamverb
(intransitive) To flow in a continuous or steady manner, like a liquid.
Canalverb
provide (a city) with a canal
Streamverb
To extend; to stretch out with a wavy motion; to float in the wind.
A flag streams 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 natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth
Streamnoun
dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas;
two streams of development run through American historystream of consciousnessthe flow of thoughtthe current of historyStreamnoun
a steady flow (usually from natural causes);
the raft floated downstream on the currenthe felt a stream of airStreamnoun
the act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression
Streamnoun
something that resembles a flowing stream in moving continuously;
a stream of people emptied from the terminalthe museum had planned carefully for the flow of visitorsStreamverb
to extend, wave or float outward, as if in the wind;
their manes streamed like stiff black pennants in the windStreamverb
exude profusely;
She was streaming with sweatHis nose streamed bloodStreamverb
move in large numbers;
people were pouring out of the theaterbeggars pullulated in the plazaStreamverb
rain heavily;
Put on your rain coat-- it's pouring outside!Streamverb
flow freely and abundantly;
Tears streamed down her face
