channelize
/ˈtʃan(ə)lʌɪz
/(also channelise)
verb chiefly North American
Another term for channel (sense 1 of the verb).We have experienced impacts of the work we've done in the Mississippi River, in channelizing the river for navigation and flood control....
- The tasks of finishing post refueling checks, changing frequencies, maneuvering to a new formation, and working the radar at the same time channelized my attention and disrupted my cross-check, causing me to lose the horizon.
- Pammel Creek originally drained into one of these wetlands but was channelized between 1914 and 1927 to join Bluff Slough, a backwater of the Mississippi River just to the southwest of the site.
Rhymes
- minimum naturale
- minimum-security
- minimum thermometer
- minimum vocabulary
- minimum wage
- minimus
- mininess
- mini-ness
- mining
- mining bee
- mining engineer
- mining engineering
- mining geologist
- mining geology
- mining moth
- mining rights
- mining ship
- mini-nuke
- minion
- minionette
- minionism
- minionship
- minion shot
- minipiano
- mini-pill