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canals

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1. canals

   Canals or artificial waterways are waterways or engineered channels built for drainage management (e.g. flood control and irrigation) or for conveyancing water transport vehicles (e.g. water taxi). They carry free, calm surface flow under atmospheric pressure, and can be thought of as artificial rivers. In most cases, a canal has a series of dams and locks that create reservoirs of low speed current flow. These reservoirs are referred to as slack water levels, often just called levels. A canal can be called a navigation canal when it parallels a natural river and shares part of the latter's discharges and drainage basin, and leverages its resources by building dams and locks to increase and lengthen its stretches of slack water levels while staying in its valley. A canal can cut across a drainage divide atop a ridge, generally requiring an external water source above the highest elevation. The best-known example of such a canal is the Panama Canal. Many canals have been built at elevations, above valleys and other waterways. Canals with sources of water at a higher level can deliver water to a destination such as a city where water is needed. The Roman Empire's aqueducts were such water supply canals.

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1. canalsnoun

   Plural noun of the word canal.

   The city has beautiful canals and people are allowed to moor their canal boats and houseboats on them, it makes for a beautiful sight.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on October 18, 2016  

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1. CANALS

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Canals is ranked #52482 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Canals surname appeared 395 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Canals.
   
   86.5% or 342 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   12.9% or 51 total occurrences were White.

How to pronounce canals?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of canals in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of canals in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of canals in a Sentence

1. Angele Givens:

   They have done a lot of work on the levees and the canals, i think our odds against floods are significantly improved.

2. Lisa Shaw:

   There's a whole community that live around the canals there, it's lovely to see people continuing to care for the canals, to litter-pick. They feel like they can take responsibility for their local waterways.

3. Alcaeus:

   Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity.

4. Kathleen Cullen:

   There's a really profound fundamental thing that happens in the brain of people like dancers or skaters over lots and lots of practice. And that's basically a change in the way the brain is processing information, when you spin around, you're activating the semicircular canals, rotation sensors. They're filled with fluid and they're sensing your rotation. But when you stop, the fluid has inertia and it tends to continue to move. They actually get a false sensation of movement.

5. Dan Quayle:

   Mars is essentially in the same orbit... Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe.

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References

1. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canals
2. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html