raceway vs canal

raceway and canal both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
raceway	Yes	No	No	No
canal	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, canal is a hypernym of raceway; that is, canal is a word with a broader meaning than raceway:

raceway (noun)	canal (noun)
a canal for a current of water	long and narrow strip of water made for boats or for irrigation
a course over which races are run	a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance
	(astronomy) an indistinct surface feature of Mars once thought to be a system of channels; they are now believed to be an optical illusion

raceway (verb)	canal (verb)
	provide (a city) with a canal