Canalise

Word CANALISE
Character 8
Hyphenation N/A
Pronunciations /kə.ˈnæl.aɪz/

Definitions and meanings of "Canalise"

What do we mean by canalise?

To convert (a river or other waterway) into a canal.

To build a canal through.

To channel the flow of.

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The word "canalise" in example sentences

Its stated aims were to purchase boats, canalise the river to make it navigable, and build warehouses and other infrastructure for commerce. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Whence arises the power of the _sentiment intérieur_ to canalise the energies of the organism, so to direct and co-ordinate them that they build up purposive structures, or effect purposive actions (as in all instinctive behaviour)? ❋ Unknown (N/A)

But most artists have got to canalise their emotion and concentrate their energies on some more definite and more maniable problem than that of making something that shall be aesthetically ❋ Clive Bell (1922)

Artists must canalise their emotion, they must concentrate their energies on some definite problem. ❋ Clive Bell (1922)

The importance of the first lessens as men learn to dig wells and to canalise springs; the two last, defence and communication, remain attached to river settlements to a much later date, and are apparent in all the history of the Thames. ❋ Hilaire Belloc (1911)

They canalise for their own security a torrent which, undisciplined, would serve but to destroy. ❋ Hilaire Belloc (1911)

Acting with the blessing of the Viceroy, Octavian Hume had sought to create an organisation which would canalise the protests of India's slowly growing educated classes into a moderate, responsible body prepared to engage in gentlemanly dialogue with India's English rulers. " ❋ Unknown (2009)

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