Trench vs. Canal
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.
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
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 fangsTrenchverb
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 itTrenchverb
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 cropsTrenchnoun
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 domainsTrenchverb
fortify by surrounding with trenches;
He trenched his military campTrenchverb
cut or carve deeply into;
letters trenched into the stoneTrenchverb
set, plant, or bury in a trench;
trench the fallen soldierstrench the vegetablesTrenchverb
cut a trench in, as for drainage;
ditch the land to drain ittrench the fieldsTrenchverb
dig a trench or trenches;
The National Guardsmen were sent out to trench
