Trench vs. Canal

Trench and Canal Definitions
Trench
A deep furrow or ditch.
Canal
An artificial waterway or artificially improved river used for travel, shipping, or irrigation.
Trench
A long narrow ditch embanked with its own soil and used for concealment and protection in warfare.
Canal
(Anatomy) A tube, duct, or passageway.
Trench
A long, steep-sided valley on the ocean floor.
Canal
(Astronomy) One of the faint, hazy markings resembling straight lines on early telescopic images of the surface of Mars.
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Trench
To dig or make a trench or trenches in (land or an area, for example).
Canal
To dig an artificial waterway through
Canal an isthmus.
Trench
To place in a trench
Trench a pipeline.
Canal
To provide with an artificial waterway or waterways.
Trench
To dig a trench or trenches.
Canal
An artificial waterway or artificially improved river used for travel, shipping, or irrigation.
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Trench
To encroach. Often used with on or upon
"The bishop exceeded his powers, and trenched on those of the king" (Francis Parkman).
Canal
(anatomy) A tubular channel within the body.
Trench
To verge or border. Often used with on or upon
"a broad playfulness that trenched on buffoonery" (George Meredith).
Canal
(astronomy) One of the faint, hazy markings resembling straight lines on early telescopic images of the surface of Mars; see Martian canals
Trench
A long, narrow ditch or hole dug in the ground.
Canal
To dig an artificial waterway in or to (a place), especially for drainage
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Trench
(military) A narrow excavation as used in warfare, as a cover for besieging or emplaced forces.
Canal
To travel along a canal by boat
Trench
(archaeology) A pit, usually rectangular with smooth walls and floor, excavated during an archaeological investigation.
Canal
An artificial channel filled with water and designed for navigation, or for irrigating land, etc.
Trench
(informal) A trench coat.
Canal
A tube or duct; as, the alimentary canal; the semicircular canals of the ear.
Trench
To invade, especially with regard to the rights or the exclusive authority of another; to encroach.
Canal
A long and relatively narrow arm of the sea, approximately uniform in width; - used chiefly in proper names; as, Portland Canal; Lynn Canal.
Trench
To excavate an elongated pit for protection of soldiers and or equipment, usually perpendicular to the line of sight toward the enemy.
Canal
(astronomy) an indistinct surface feature of Mars once thought to be a system of channels; they are now believed to be an optical illusion
Trench
(archaeology) To excavate an elongated and often narrow pit.
Canal
A bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance;
The tear duct was obstructed
The alimentary canal
Poison is released through a channel in the snake's fangs
Trench
To have direction; to aim or tend.
Canal
Long and narrow strip of water made for boats or for irrigation
Trench
To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, etc.
Canal
Provide (a city) with a canal
Trench
To cut furrows or ditches in.
To trench land for the purpose of draining it
Trench
To dig or cultivate very deeply, usually by digging parallel contiguous trenches in succession, filling each from the next.
To trench a garden for certain crops
Trench
To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, or the like.
The wide wound that the boar had trenchedIn his soft flank.
This weak impress of love is as a figureTrenched in ice, which with an hour's heatDissolves to water, and doth lose its form.
Trench
To fortify by cutting a ditch, and raising a rampart or breastwork with the earth thrown out of the ditch; to intrench.
No more shall trenching war channel her fields.
Trench
To cut furrows or ditches in; as, to trench land for the purpose of draining it.
Trench
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.
Trench
To encroach; to intrench.
Does it not seem as if for a creature to challenge to itself a boundless attribute, were to trench upon the prerogative of the divine nature?
Trench
To have direction; to aim or tend.
Like powerful armies, trenching at a townBy slow and silent, but resistless, sap.
Trench
A long, narrow cut in the earth; a ditch; as, a trench for draining land.
Trench
An alley; a narrow path or walk cut through woods, shrubbery, or the like.
In a trench, forth in the park, goeth she.
Trench
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.
Trench
A ditch dug as a fortification having a parapet of the excavated earth
Trench
A long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor
Trench
Any long ditch cut in the ground
Trench
Impinge or infringe upon;
This impinges on my rights as an individual
This matter entrenches on other domains
Trench
Fortify by surrounding with trenches;
He trenched his military camp
Trench
Cut or carve deeply into;
Letters trenched into the stone
Trench
Set, plant, or bury in a trench;
Trench the fallen soldiers
Trench the vegetables
Trench
Cut a trench in, as for drainage;
Ditch the land to drain it
Trench the fields
Trench
Dig a trench or trenches;
The National Guardsmen were sent out to trench