different between trench vs canal

English

Etymology

Borrowed into Middle English from Old French trenche.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??nt?/
• Rhymes: -?nt?

Noun

trench (plural trenches)

1. A long, narrow ditch or hole dug in the ground.
2. (military) A narrow excavation as used in warfare, as a cover for besieging or emplaced forces.
3. (archaeology) A pit, usually rectangular with smooth walls and floor, excavated during an archaeological investigation.
4. (informal) A trench coat.
   • 1999, April 24, Xiphias Gladius <[email protected]>, "Re: trenchcoat mafia", ne.general.selected, Usenet:

     I was the first person in my high school to wear a trench and fedora constantly, and Ben was one of the first to wear a black trench.

   • 2007, Nina Garcia, The Little Black Book of Style, HarperCollins, as excerpted in Elle, October, page 138:

     A classic trench can work in any kind of weather and goes well with almost anything.

Derived terms

Related terms

• tranche

Translations

Verb

trench (third-person singular simple present trenches, present participle trenching, simple past and past participle trenched)

1. (usually followed by upon) To invade, especially with regard to the rights or the exclusive authority of another; to encroach.
   • 1640, Ben Jonson, Underwoods, page 68:

     Shee is the Judge, Thou Executioner, Or if thou needs would'st trench upon her power, Thou mightst have yet enjoy'd thy crueltie, With some more thrift, and more varietie.

   • 1832, Isaac Taylor, Saturday Evening

     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?

   • 1949, Charles Austin Beard, American Government and Politics, page 16:

     He could make what laws he pleased, as long as those laws did not trench upon property rights.

   • 2005, Carl von Clausewitz, J. J. Graham, On War, page 261:

     [O]ur ideas, therefore, must trench upon the province of tactics.

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

   • Advanc'd upon the field there stood a mound
     Of earth congested, wall'd , and trench'd around

3. (archaeology) To excavate an elongated and often narrow pit.
4. To have direction; to aim or tend.
   • 1612, Francis Bacon, Of Judicature

     the reason and consequence thereof may trench to point of estate

5. To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, etc.
6. To cut furrows or ditches in.

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

French

Etymology

From English.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??nt?/

Noun

trench m (plural trenchs)

1. trench coat

Italian

Etymology

From English trench coat.

Noun

trench m (invariable)

1. trench coat

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French canal, from Old French canal, from Latin can?lis (“channel; canal”), from can?lis (“canal”), from canna (“reed, cane”), from Ancient Greek ????? (kánna, “reed”), from Akkadian ???? (qanû, “reed”), from Sumerian ???????? (gi.na). Doublet of channel.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??næl/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /k??næl/, /k??n?l/
• Rhymes: -æl

Noun

canal (plural canals)

1. An artificial waterway or artificially improved river used for travel, shipping, or irrigation.
2. (anatomy) A tubular channel within the body.
3. (astronomy) One of the faint, hazy markings resembling straight lines on early telescopic images of the surface of Mars.

Related terms

• channel
• channelization
• channelize
• canalization
• canalize

Descendants

• ? Scottish Gaelic: canàl

Translations

Verb

canal (third-person singular simple present canals, present participle canaling or canalling, simple past and past participle canaled or canalled)

1. To dig an artificial waterway in or to (a place), especially for drainage
2. To travel along a canal by boat

Anagrams

• Alcan, Clana, Nalca

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin can?lis.

Noun

canal f (plural canales)

1. canal (artificial waterway)

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin can?lis (“channel; canal”).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /k??nal/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ka?nal/

Noun

canal m (plural canals)

1. canal; channel (artificial passage for water)
2. roof gutter

   Synonyms: canaló, ràfec

Derived terms

• canalitzar

Further reading

• “canal” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “canal” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “canal” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “canal” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin can?lis. Doublet of chenal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.nal/

Noun

canal m (plural canaux)

1. canal
2. channel (broadcasting: specific radio frequency or band of frequencies)

Derived terms

• canal nommé

Related terms

• chenal

Descendants

• ? Persian: ?????? (kânâl)
• ? Romanian: canal
• ? Turkish: kanal

See also

• chaîne

Further reading

• “canal” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• lança

Galician

Etymology 1

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese canal (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria): cana (“cane, reed”) +? -al. Cognate with Spanish cañal.

Alternative forms

• canar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka?nal/

Noun

canal m (plural canais)

1. (dated) fish-weir; place or installation for fishing, on a river
   • 1375, A. López Ferreiro (ed.), Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática. Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 385:

     V casares en Cesar os quaes fforon de Mayor Aras moller de Martin Sanchez Xarpa com huum paaço et con huum canal enno Tamare.

     5 farmhouses in Cesar, which belonged to Maior Aras, wife of Martín Sánchez Xarpa, with a manor and a fishery on the river Tambre

   Synonyms: caneiro, pesqueira

Etymology 2

Borrowing from Latin canalis. Doublet of canle and cal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka?nal/

Noun

canal m (plural canais)

1. canal
2. channel

References

• “canal” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “canal” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “canar” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “canal” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “canal” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “canal” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Norman

Etymology

From Old French canal, from Latin can?lis (“channel; canal”).

Noun

canal m (plural canaux)

1. (Jersey) canal

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese canal, from Latin can?lis (“canal”), from canna (“reed, cane”), from Ancient Greek ????? (kánna, “reed”), from Akkadian ???? (qanû, “reed”), from Sumerian ???????? (gi.na). This form may possibly be an early borrowing or semi-learned term; cf. the fully inherited doublet cale, and related calha.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ka.?naw/, /k?.?naw/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /k?.?na?/

Noun

canal m (plural canais)

1. ditch

   Synonyms: canaleta, vala, valeta

2. canal (artificial waterway)
3. (radio) channel (broadcasting: specific radio frequency or band of frequencies)
4. (television) television channel

Derived terms

• (canal): canal-do-Panamá

Related terms

• cale
• calha

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French canal, Latin can?lis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka?nal/

Noun

canal n (plural canale or canaluri)

1. (plural canaluri) canal
2. channel

Declension

Further reading

• canal in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Spanish

Etymology

From Old Spanish canal, from Latin can?lis (“channel; canal”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka?nal/, [ka?nal]
• Rhymes: -al

Noun

canal m (plural canales)

1. canal, flume, waterway (artificial)
2. channel (wide strait)
3. (communication) channel
4. (chemistry) channel
5. cleavage

Hyponyms

• (canal): canal de Panamá
• (channel): canal de Jamaica
• (channel): canal de la Mancha
• (channel): canal de Mozambique
• (channel): canal del Norte (“North Channel”)

Derived terms

• acanalar
• canaleta
• canalizar
• canalón
• canalón

Descendants

• ? Tagalog: kanal

Further reading

• “canal” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Venetian

Etymology

From Latin can?lis.

Noun

canal m (plural cana?i)

1. canal
2. channel (all senses)