sinus vs canal

sinus and canal both are nouns.

sinus is not a verb while canal is a verb.

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

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

sinus: a wide channel containing blood; does not have the coating of an ordinary blood vessel
canal: a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance

Other hypernyms of sinus include channel, duct, epithelial duct.

sinus (noun)	canal (noun)
a wide channel containing blood; does not have the coating of an ordinary blood vessel	long and narrow strip of water made for boats or for irrigation
any of various air-filled cavities especially in the bones of the skull	a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance
an abnormal passage leading from a suppurating cavity to the body surface	(astronomy) an indistinct surface feature of Mars once thought to be a system of channels; they are now believed to be an optical illusion

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

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