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canalize

canalize \canalize\ v.

  1. to provide with a canal, as of a city.

    Syn: canal.

  2. to to direct the flow of; -- also used abstractly, as of money or information.

    Syn: channel. [WordNet 1.5] ||

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canalize

vb. (alternative spelling of canalise English)

WordNet
canalize

  1. v. provide (a city) with a canal [syn: canal, canalise]

  2. direct the flow of; "channel infomartion towards a broad audience" [syn: channel, canalise]

Usage examples of "canalize".

Beginning on the 17th with an attack on a ten-mile front between Tracy-le-Val and Vingre he had steadily pushed on until by the 23rd his left flank held the Oise as far as its junction with the Ailette and his front faced the latter canalized river as far as Guny.

Below, morning sun gleamed on a stream diverted and partly canalized to make a route for freight-pitchens, mindlessly plodding from loq to loq with their massive burdens.

They were aware of it because I had warned them-but it wasn't canalized from childhood.

Could the same subject, as an adult with formed habits and canalized thinking, make another adjustment just as radical, and much more difficult for an adult to make than for an infant?

We can't judge by the fact that you and I have no stomach for such group sports-our canalized tastes are irrelevant.

They were aware of it because I had warned them—but it wasn’t canalized from childhood.

We can’t judge by the fact that you and I have no stomach for such group sports - our canalized tastes are irrelevant.

The data is very good that genes are regulated by canalizing functions.

It could be that among the known genes that are published, it’s predominantly the case that they are governed by canalizing functions because such genes have phenotypic effects that are easy to find, and there’s lot of things that are noncanalizing functions, but you just can’t find them easily, genetically.

The implication is that natural selection has tuned the fractions of genes governed by canalizing functions such that cells are in the ordered regime.

The computing power gets to be large because if I want to look for a single input, like a canalizing input, the canalizing input is really easy to tell because if gene A is on, then gene C is on no matter what.

Daddy, although a historian, is devoted to the latest, most progressive theories of child psychology and applies them by canalizing the cortex through pain association whenever he really wants to ensure that a lesson will not be forgotten.

He focusses on the page, jerks upright as deeply canalized reflexes kick in.