Trench vs. Canal: What's the Difference?

A deep furrow or ditch.

An artificial waterway or artificially improved river used for travel, shipping, or irrigation.

A long narrow ditch embanked with its own soil and used for concealment and protection in warfare.

(Anatomy) A tube, duct, or passageway.

A long, steep-sided valley on the ocean floor.

(Astronomy) One of the faint, hazy markings resembling straight lines on early telescopic images of the surface of Mars.

To dig or make a trench or trenches in (land or an area, for example).

To dig an artificial waterway through

To place in a trench

To provide with an artificial waterway or waterways.

To dig a trench or trenches.

An artificial waterway or artificially improved river used for travel, shipping, or irrigation.

To encroach. Often used with on or upon

(anatomy) A tubular channel within the body.

To verge or border. Often used with on or upon

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

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

To dig an artificial waterway in or to (a place), especially for drainage

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

To travel along a canal by boat

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

An artificial channel filled with water and designed for navigation, or for irrigating land, etc.

(informal) A trench coat.

A tube or duct; as, the alimentary canal; the semicircular canals of the ear.

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

A long and relatively narrow arm of the sea, approximately uniform in width; - used chiefly in proper names; as, Portland Canal; Lynn Canal.

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

(astronomy) an indistinct surface feature of Mars once thought to be a system of channels; they are now believed to be an optical illusion

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

A bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance;

To have direction; to aim or tend.

Long and narrow strip of water made for boats or for irrigation

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

Provide (a city) with a canal

To cut furrows or ditches in.

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

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

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

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

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.

To encroach; to intrench.

To have direction; to aim or tend.

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

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

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.

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

A long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor

Any long ditch cut in the ground

Impinge or infringe upon;

Fortify by surrounding with trenches;

Cut or carve deeply into;

Set, plant, or bury in a trench;

Cut a trench in, as for drainage;

Dig a trench or trenches;