noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a canal boat ( also a narrow boat British English ) (= for use on canals )
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We had a holiday on a canal boat in France.
alimentary canal
canal boat
root canal
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root canal treatment treatment in which a dentist removes a diseased area in the root of a tooth
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
alimentary
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Greenaway colour codes the rooms of the restaurant, which mirror food's route through the alimentary canal .
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Presented with a diagram of the alimentary canal , he tended to marvel at its artistry rather than study its efficiency.
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The heart slows, the alimentary canal and the bladder constrict.
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Experimental evidence also exists for the presence of axon reflexes in the alimentary canal .
narrow
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Competition Narrow canals suffered most from rail competition; where they ran through towns there was often little physical space for expansion.
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After World War 1 motor lorries took away a great deal of the short distance carrying from the narrow canals .
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Some carrying on the narrow canals continued until the early 1960s.
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Most of her life was spent pushing barges loaded with silt dredged from the narrow canals around Birmingham.
■ NOUN
bank
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Walking along the canal bank one day we came across a wee lady siting on the banking drawing.
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He pedalled along the canal bank quite slowly, keeping his eyes skinned for signs of defunct animal life.
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There were lamps along the canal bank now as well; they'd gone up in November.
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He slid down from the pill-box and sat in the high grass, half way down the canal bank .
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Once they reached the canal bank , however, Robbie had no doubt that she'd done the right thing.
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The mills in the background are arranged along the canal bank .
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Inset Far Left: A member of a modern piling gang inserts a steel pile to strengthen the canal bank .
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The canal bank was totally deserted and he was soon leaning his bike against the mossy mill wall.
birth
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A puny midwife fumbles with exploding plaster wombs, plastic foetuses, rubber birth canals and disintegrating umbilical cords.
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The mentor assists the dream down the birth canal and out into the light of day.
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This has meant that big single babies no longer easily pass through the birth canal .
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The skull then is crushed so the fetus can be withdrawn through the birth canal without inducing labor.
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She was in the birth canal , her head and ears were covered, she was at peace.
boat
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For most purposes the floor of a canal boat may be considered stable, like that of a domestic interior.
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Stages and canal boats had been crowded with visitors descending on the twin communities.
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When canal boats are taken out of the water for repairs they are winched sideways up a slipway.
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Born on a canal boat , she had a brief childhood before learning to lead the mules that pull the boat.
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The little sketch of Crinan Canal shows the halting-place where passengers wait to re-embark on board the canal boat .
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Early steam engines were not very suitable for powering canal boats because of their large size.
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Transport includes canal boats from Village to Olympic centre.
company
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Sometimes the canal companies were bought by the railway companies and the channel converted to take the rail track.
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But when he approached the canal company , he met a wall of resistance.
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Mole catchers were employed by some canal companies because of the problems which the animal could cause.
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They were towed in trains behind canal company tugs.
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The Grand Union Canal's reservoir at Ruislip was marketed by the canal company as a leisure amenity in the 1930s.
drainage
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From Imperial Beach to Oceanside, drainage canals are being cleaned earlier and with extra attention.
irrigation
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The firing from the irrigation canal seemed to have stopped.
network
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The mills of Lancashire were supplied with coal and cotton via the canal network .
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Now Stroud is likely to be reconnected to the national canal network by the turn of the century.
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The focus of the South Eastern canal network was London.
root
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I had a throbbing abscess under a large section of bridgework and root canal work was the next day's projected treat.
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He got out of bed on Wednesday morning, feeling the same dread he might feel over an impending root canal .
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Herbivores have a large root canal in the teeth, which grow continually throughout life.
system
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Wooden narrow-boats were built throughout the canal system .
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Schistosomiasis is prevalent and water hyacinths have spread throughout the canal system .
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It would have been enormous fun, she thought wistfully, to help work Water Gypsy up and down the canal system .
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The canal system felt the pinch.
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Water Supply - and the many varied uses A guaranteed supply of water is vital for the canal system .
towpath
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Voice over There's currently a programme under way to improve the state of the canal towpath .
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Two men in pith helmets stood on a canal towpath slapping each other's faces with fish in time to music.
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Police are still trying to trace a potential witness seen by a jogger on the canal towpath behind Mr Miles home.
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The various different types of pillbox can be seen from the canal towpath .
■ VERB
build
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Wooden narrow-boats were built throughout the canal system.
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Setting priorities Land economists questioned whether developers would come running if the city built a canal .
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Thus most power stations are built alongside rivers, canals or the sea, while some are also adjacent to coal mines.
carry
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Pottery materials continued to be carried on the canal until the 1960s.
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After World War 1 motor lorries took away a great deal of the short distance carrying from the narrow canals .
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Some carrying on the narrow canals continued until the early 1960s.
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A short aqueduct carries the canal over a minor road before the canal dives into a deep cutting.
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The Wigwell Aqueduct was built of stone to carry the canal over the River Derwent.
dig
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Of the men who actually dug the canals we know less.
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It constructs roads, flattens hills, digs canals , builds harbours, employs workers, contracts for services.
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Shrimp farmers dig canals to bring salt water to enclosed areas where shrimps are cultured.
use
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The size of the lock chamber restricts the size of boats which can use a particular canal .
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After sessions using 20s on canals size 16s look huge, but they're not really.
walk
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You could walk into a canal .
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There was no breeze, and we were walking by the canals and office-blocks of Carthage.
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They walked along the canal until they came to the footbridge.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Many of them followed only one stock, in rails, or canals, or petroleum, or banks.
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Most argued that the canals were optical illusions, and that Mars was a cold, waterless, radiation-baked world.
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Ocker Hill Power Station with two prominent chimneys, a sewage works and a canal surface with oil and floating debris.
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Sniffing alone or in dangerous places, such as railway embankments and by canals, can be more risky.
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The little sketch of Crinan Canal shows the halting-place where passengers wait to re-embark on board the canal boat.
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The passageway to the cordoned-off Alsbach canal was wet and dark, and I was glad to have a flashlight.
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Today, the National Park Service offers boat tours along the canals, narrow quiet canyons between imperious five-story brick buildings.