canalise

See also: canalisé

English

Alternative forms

• canalize

Etymology

From canal +‎ -ise.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkæn.ə.laɪz/, /kəˈnæl.aɪz/
• Rhymes: -ænəlaɪz, -ælaɪz

Verb

canalise (third-person singular simple present canalises, present participle canalising, simple past and past participle canalised)

1. (transitive, British spelling) To convert (a river or other waterway) into a canal.
   • 1854, David Thomas Ansted, Scenery, Science and Art: being extracts from the note-book of a geologist and mining engineer:

     . . . owing to the recent commencement of works about to be carried on on a large scale to improve and canalise the navigation of the Ebro . . .

   • 2005, New Science Publications, New scientist, volume 188:

     Under Advance Brazil, the government plans to pave over 7000 kilometres of new Amazonian highways, canalise vast rivers and construct dozens of railways, […]

2. (transitive, British spelling) To build a canal through.
3. (transitive, British spelling) To channel the flow of.
   • 1927, Edith Wharton, Twilight Sleep, London: Virago, published 1996, page 221:

     On the desk lay the final version of the Birth Control speech, mastered and canalized by the skilful Maisie.

   • 1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter VIII, in Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC:

     The workers' militias, based on the trade unions and each composed of people of approximately the same political opinions, had the effect of canalizing into one place all the most revolutionary sentiment in the country.

   • 1948, Sir Winston Churchill, The Second World War: The Gathering Storm, page 373:

     ...yet it is always a wise precaution in defending a frontier of hundreds of miles to bar off as much as possible by fortifications, and thus economise the use of troops in sedentary roles and "canalise" potential invasion.

Derived terms

• canalisation
• decanalise
• recanalise

 

Translations

to convert into a canal

• Danish: kanalisere
• German: kanalisieren (de)
• Indonesian: menganalkan
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kanalisere

  Nynorsk: kanalisere

• Romanian: canaliza (ro)
• Swedish: kanalisera (sv)

to build a canal through

• Hungarian: csatornáz (hu)
• Indonesian: membuat kanal

to channel the flow of

• Danish: kanalisere
• German: kanalisieren (de)
• Hungarian: (literally) folyat (hu), (also figuratively) irányít (hu), terel (hu), vezet (hu), összpontosít (hu)
• Indonesian: menyalurkan (id)
• Irish: treoraigh
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kanalisere

  Nynorsk: kanalisere

• Swedish: kanalisera (sv)

Anagrams

• sacaline, selacian

French

Verb

canalise

1. inflection of canaliser:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• alsacien, Alsacien