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channel
/ˈt͡ʃeə̯nəl/
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What does channel mean?
noun
- The hollow bed of running waters; (also) the bed of the sea or other body of water.
- The natural or man-made deeper course through a reef, bar, bay, or any shallow body of water.
- The navigable part of a river.
More meanings (26)
noun
- A narrow body of water between two land masses.
- Something through which another thing passes; a means of conveying or transmitting.
- An ion channel: pore-forming proteins located in a cell membrane that allow specific ions to pass through.
- A gutter; a groove, as in a fluted column.
- A structural member with a cross section shaped like a squared-off letter C.
- A connection between initiating and terminating nodes of a circuit.
- The narrow conducting portion of a MOSFET transistor.
- The part that connects a data source to a data sink.
- A path for conveying electrical or electromagnetic signals, usually distinguished from other parallel paths.
- A single path provided by a transmission medium via physical separation, such as by multipair cable.
- A single path provided by a transmission medium via spectral or protocol separation, such as by frequency or time-division multiplexing.
- A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies, usually in conjunction with a predetermined letter, number, or codeword, and allocated by international agreement.
- A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies used for transmitting television.
- The portion of a storage medium, such as a track or a band, that is accessible to a given reading or writing station or head.
- The part of a turbine pump where the pressure is built up.
- A distribution channel.
- A particular area for conversations on an IRC or similar network, analogous to a chat room and often dedicated to a specific topic.
- A psychic or medium who takes on the personality of a spirit and conveys messages from them.
- The wale of a sailing ship which projects beyond the gunwale and to which the shrouds attach via the chains. One of the flat ledges of heavy plank bolted edgewise to the outside of a vessel, to increase the spread of the shrouds and carry them clear of the bulwarks.
- (historical) A means of delivering up-to-date Internet content via a push mechanism.
verb
- To make or cut a channel or groove in.
- To direct or guide along a desired course.
- To serve as a medium for.
- To follow as a model, especially in a performance.
proper noun
- Ellipsis of English Channel: a strait in Europe, separating Great Britain from France and connecting the North Sea to the Atlantic Ocean.
- A former village and district of Channel-Port aux Basques, Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
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IPA pronunciation
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Following the channel, he winged his flight for miles over the cool sparkling water, between the tangle of foliage bordering the banks.
If few rivers have a more wild and wondrous channel than the Rheidol, fewer still have a more beautiful and romantic source.
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The channel formed a splendid reach, sweeping from south-west to north-east, with a horizon of water and sky both upstream and down.
They dug canals in places to turn the river from its present channel—and others, to reach some buried channel of former times.
Her commerce, instead of running in a great number of small channels, has been taught to run principally in one great channel.