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Definition of Canalise
1. Verb. Provide (a city) with a canal.
Generic synonyms: Furnish, Provide, Render, Supply
Derivative terms: Canal, Canalisation, Canalization, Canal, Canalisation, Canal, Canalization
2. Verb. Direct the flow of. "They canalise the water from the sink"; "Channel information towards a broad audience"
Generic synonyms: Channelise, Channelize, Direct, Guide, Head, Maneuver, Manoeuver, Manoeuvre, Point, Steer
Derivative terms: Canal, Canalisation, Canal, Canal, Canalization, Channel, Channelisation, Channelization
Definition of Canalise
1. Verb. (British spelling) To convert a river or other waterway into a canal. ¹
2. Verb. (British spelling) To channel the flow of something. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Canalise
1. to canalize [v -ISED, -ISING, -ISES] - See also: canalize
Lexicographical Neighbors of Canalise
Literary usage of Canalise
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1920)
"88 " C'est donc aux élites à s' adapter au gouvernement populaire et à endiguer
et canaliser les fantaisies du nombre, comme l'ingénieur endigue et canalise ..."
2. Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley (1922)
""I canalise it. I bring it down through pipes to work the turbines of my conscious
mind." "Like Niagara," Denis suggested. Some of Mr. Barbecue-Smith's ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1889)
"Wild democracy is a force that no one denies ; so is Niagara, but how to canalise
it is the query? Mere destruction is not an aim; nor is one to be ..."
4. Danton: A Study by Hilaire Belloc (1899)
"They preach certain political dogmas, and make it their affair to canalise the
Revolutionary current; ..."
5. A Thousand Miles Up the Nile by Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards (1891)
"... would only have needed to canalise it, which is what she probably did. [Note
to Second Edition. ..."
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