Trench vs. Canal

Trench vs. Canal — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Trench and Canal

Trenchnoun

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

Canalnoun

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

Trenchnoun

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

Canalnoun

(anatomy) A tubular channel within the body.

Trenchnoun

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

Canalnoun

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

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Trenchnoun

(informal) A trench coat.

Canalverb

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

Trenchverb

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

Canalverb

To travel along a canal by boat

Trenchverb

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

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

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Trenchverb

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

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 fangs

Trenchverb

To have direction; to aim or tend.

Canalnoun

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

Trenchverb

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

Canalverb

provide (a city) with a canal

Trenchverb

To cut furrows or ditches in.

to trench land for the purpose of draining it

Trenchverb

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

Trenchnoun

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

Trenchnoun

a long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor

Trenchnoun

any long ditch cut in the ground

Trenchverb

impinge or infringe upon;

This impinges on my rights as an individualThis matter entrenches on other domains

Trenchverb

fortify by surrounding with trenches;

He trenched his military camp

Trenchverb

cut or carve deeply into;

letters trenched into the stone

Trenchverb

set, plant, or bury in a trench;

trench the fallen soldierstrench the vegetables

Trenchverb

cut a trench in, as for drainage;

ditch the land to drain ittrench the fields

Trenchverb

dig a trench or trenches;

The National Guardsmen were sent out to trench