Synonyms of the word

canalize

• v. Alternative spelling of canalise.

canal

• n. An artificial waterway or artificially improved river used for travel, shipping, or irrigation.
• n. (anatomy) A tubular channel within the body.
• n. (astronomy) One of the faint, hazy markings resembling straight lines on early telescopic images of the…
• v. To dig an artificial waterway in or to (a place), especially for drainage.
• v. To travel along a canal by boat.

canalise

• v. (British spelling) To convert a river or other waterway into a canal.
• v. (British spelling) To channel the flow of something.

channel

• n. The physical confine of a river or slough, consisting of a bed and banks.
• n. The natural or man-made deeper course through a reef, bar, bay, or any shallow body of water.
• n. The navigable part of a river.
• n. A narrow body of water between two land masses.
• n. That through which anything passes; means of conveying or transmitting.
• n. A gutter; a groove, as in a fluted column.
• n. (nautical, in the plural) Flat ledges of heavy plank bolted edgewise to the outside of a vessel, to increase…
• n. (electronics) A connection between initiating and terminating nodes of a circuit.
• n. (electronics) The narrow conducting portion of a MOSFET transistor.
• n. (communication) The part that connects a data source to a data sink.
• n. (communication) A path for conveying electrical or electromagnetic signals, usually distinguished from…
• n. (communication) A single path provided by a transmission medium via physical separation, such as by multipair…
• n. (communication) A single path provided by a transmission medium via spectral or protocol separation, such…
• n. (broadcasting) A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies, usually in conjunction with a predetermined…
• n. (broadcasting) A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies used for transmitting television.
• n. (storage) The portion of a storage medium, such as a track or a band, that is accessible to a given reading…
• n. (technic) The way in a turbine pump where the pressure is built up.
• n. (business, marketing) A distribution channel.
• n. (Internet) A particular area for conversations on an IRC network, analogous to a chatroom and often dedicated…
• n. (Internet) An obsolete means of delivering up-to-date Internet content.
• n. A psychic or medium who temporarily takes on the personality of somebody else.
• v. To direct the flow of something.
• v. To assume the personality of another person, typically a historic figure, in a theatrical or paranormal…
• n. (nautical) The wale of a sailing ship which projects beyond the gunwale and to which the shrouds attach…

channelise

• v. (British spelling) alternative form of channelize.

channelize

• v. To form a channel, especially by deepening or altering the course of a river.
• v. (transitive) To transmit through a channel.
• v. (transitive) To multiplex (messages) through a single line.

direct

• adj. Proceeding without deviation or interruption.
• adj. Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end.
• adj. Straightforward; sincere.
• adj. Immediate; express; plain; unambiguous.
• adj. In the line of descent; not collateral.
• adj. (astronomy) In the direction of the general planetary motion, or from west to east; in the order of the…
• adj. (political science) Pertaining to, or effected immediately by, action of the people through their votes…
• adj. (aviation, travel) having a single flight number.
• adv. Directly.
• v. To manage, control, steer.
• v. To aim (something) at (something else).
• v. To point out or show to (somebody) the right course or way; to guide, as by pointing out the way.
• v. To point out to with authority; to instruct as a superior; to order.
• v. (dated) To put a direction or address upon; to mark with the name and residence of the person to whom…

furnish

• n. Material used to create an engineered product.
• v. (transitive) To provide a place with furniture, or other equipment.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To supply or give.

guide

• n. Someone who guides, especially someone hired to show people around a place or an institution and offer…
• n. A document or book that offers information or instruction; guidebook.
• n. A sign that guides people; guidepost.
• n. Any marking or object that catches the eye to provide quick reference.
• n. A device that guides part of a machine, or guides motion or action.
• n. (occult) A spirit believed to speak through a medium.
• n. (military) A member of a group marching in formation who sets the pattern of movement or alignment for…
• v. to serve as a guide for someone or something; to lead or direct in a way; to conduct in a course or path.
• v. to steer or navigate, especially a ship or as a pilot.
• v. to exert control or influence over someone or something.
• v. to supervise the education or training of someone.
• v. (intransitive) to act as a guide.

head

• n. (countable) The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense…
• n. (countable) The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
• n. (social, countable) A leader or expert.
• n. A significant or important part.
• n. Headway; progress.
• n. Topic; subject.
• n. (uncountable) Denouement; crisis.
• n. (fluid dynamics) Pressure and energy.
• n. (slang, uncountable) Fellatio or cunnilingus; oral sex.
• n. (slang) The glans penis.
• n. (slang, countable) A heavy or habitual user of illicit drugs.
• n. (obsolete) Power; armed force.
• adj. Of, relating to, or intended for the head.
• adj. Foremost in rank or importance.
• adj. Placed at the top or the front.
• adj. Coming from in front.
• v. (transitive) To be in command of. (See also head up.).
• v. (transitive) To strike with the head; as in soccer, to head the ball.
• v. (intransitive) To move in a specified direction.
• v. (fishing) To remove the head from a fish.
• v. (intransitive) To originate; to spring; to have its course, as a river.
• v. (intransitive) To form a head.
• v. To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head.
• v. To cut off the top of; to lop off.
• v. (obsolete) To behead; to decapitate.
• v. To go in front of; to get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose; hence, to check or restrain.
• v. To set on the head.

maneuver

• n. A movement, often one performed with difficulty.
• n. (often in the plural) A large training field-exercise of military troops.
• n. An adroit or cunning action; a stratagem.
• v. (transitive) To move (something) carefully, and often with difficulty, into a certain position.
• v. (figuratively, transitive) To guide, steer, manage purposefully.
• v. (figuratively, intransitive) To intrigue, manipulate, plot, scheme.

manoeuver

• n. (nonstandard) Alternative spelling of maneuver.
• v. (nonstandard) Alternative spelling of maneuver.

manoeuvre

• n. British spelling, Canadian, and Irish, South African, Australian and New Zealand spelling of maneuver.
• v. (transitive) British spelling, Canadian, and Irish, South African, Australian and New Zealand spelling…

point

• n. A discrete division of something.
• n. A sharp extremity.
• n. (heraldry) One of the several different parts of the escutcheon.
• n. (nautical) A short piece of cordage used in reefing sails.
• n. (historical) A string or lace used to tie together certain garments.
• n. Lace worked by the needle.
• n. (US, slang, dated) An item of private information; a hint; a tip; a pointer.
• n. The attitude assumed by a pointer dog when he finds game.
• n. (falconry) The perpendicular rising of a hawk over the place where its prey has gone into cover.
• n. The act of pointing, as of the foot downward in certain dance positions.
• n. The gesture of extending the index finger in a direction in order to indicate something.
• n. (medicine, obsolete) A vaccine point.
• n. In various sports, a position of a certain player, or, by extension, the player occupying that position.
• v. (intransitive) To extend the index finger in the direction of something in order to show where it is or…
• v. (intransitive) To draw attention to something or indicate a direction.
• v. (intransitive) To face in a particular direction.
• v. (transitive) To direct toward an object; to aim.
• v. To give a point to; to sharpen; to cut, forge, grind, or file to an acute end.
• v. (intransitive) To indicate a probability of something.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, masonry) To repair mortar.
• v. (transitive, masonry) To fill up and finish the joints of (a wall), by introducing additional cement or…
• v. (stone-cutting) To cut, as a surface, with a pointed tool.
• v. (transitive) To direct or encourage (someone) in a particular direction.
• v. (transitive, mathematics) To separate an integer from a decimal with a decimal point.
• v. (transitive) To mark with diacritics.
• v. (dated) To supply with punctuation marks; to punctuate.
• v. (transitive, computing) To direct the central processing unit to seek information at a certain location…
• v. (transitive, Internet) To direct requests sent to a domain name to the IP address corresponding to that…
• v. (intransitive, nautical) To sail close to the wind.
• v. (intransitive, hunting) To indicate the presence of game by a fixed and steady look, as certain hunting…
• v. (medicine, of an abscess) To approximate to the surface; to head.
• v. (obsolete) To appoint.
• v. (dated) To give particular prominence to; to designate in a special manner; to point out.

provide

• v. To make a living; earn money for necessities.
• v. To act to prepare for something.
• v. To establish as a previous condition; to stipulate.
• v. To give what is needed or desired, especially basic needs.
• v. To furnish (with), cause to be present.
• v. To make possible or attainable.
• v. (obsolete, Latinism) To foresee.
• v. To appoint to an ecclesiastical benefice before it is vacant. See provisor.

render

• v. (transitive) To cause to become.
• v. (transitive) To interpret, give an interpretation or rendition of.
• v. (transitive) To translate into another language.
• v. (transitive) To pass down.
• v. (transitive) To make over as a return.
• v. (transitive) To give; to give back; to deliver.
• v. to give up; to yield; to surrender.
• v. (transitive, computer graphics) To transform (a model) into a display on the screen or other media.
• v. (transitive) To capture and turn over to another country secretly and extrajudicially.
• v. (transitive) To convert waste animal tissue into a usable byproduct.
• v. (intransitive, cooking) For fat to drip off meat from cooking.
• v. (construction) To cover a wall with a layer of plaster. To render with stucco.
• v. (nautical) To pass; to run; said of the passage of a rope through a block, eyelet, etc.
• v. (nautical) To yield or give way.
• v. (obsolete) To return; to pay back; to restore.
• v. (obsolete) To inflict, as a retribution; to requite.
• n. Stucco or plaster applied to walls (mostly to outside masonry walls).
• n. (computer graphics) A digital image produced by rendering a model.
• n. (obsolete) A surrender.
• n. (obsolete) A return; a payment of rent.
• n. (obsolete) An account given; a statement.
• n. One who rends.

steer

• n. The castrated male of cattle, especially one raised for beef production.
• v. (transitive) To castrate (a male calf).
• n. (informal) A suggestion about a course of action.
• v. (intransitive) To guide the course of a vessel, vehicle, aircraft etc. (by means of a device such as a…
• v. (transitive) To guide the course of a vessel, vehicle, aircraft etc. (by means of a device such as a rudder,…
• v. (intransitive) To be directed and governed; to take a direction, or course; to obey the helm.
• v. (transitive) To direct a group of animals.
• v. (transitive) To maneuver or manipulate a person or group into a place or course of action.
• v. (transitive) To direct a conversation.
• v. To conduct oneself; to take or pursue a course of action.
• n. (obsolete) A helmsman; a pilot.

supply

• v. (transitive) To provide (something), to make (something) available for use.
• v. (transitive) To furnish or equip with.
• v. (transitive) To fill up, or keep full.
• v. (transitive) To compensate for, or make up a deficiency of.
• v. (transitive) To serve instead of; to take the place of.
• v. (intransitive) To act as a substitute.
• v. (transitive) To fill temporarily; to serve as substitute for another in, as a vacant place or office;…
• n. (uncountable) The act of supplying.
• n. (countable) An amount of something supplied.
• n. (in the plural) provisions.
• n. (chiefly in the plural) An amount of money provided, as by Parliament or Congress, to meet the annual…
• n. Somebody, such as a teacher or clergyman, who temporarily fills the place of another; a substitute.
• adv. Supplely: in a supple manner, with suppleness.