Channel

['tʃæn(ə)l] or ['tʃænl]

解释:

(noun.) a passage for water (or other fluids) to flow through; 'the fields were crossed with irrigation channels'; 'gutters carried off the rainwater into a series of channels under the street'.

(noun.) a television station and its programs; 'a satellite TV channel'; 'surfing through the channels'; 'they offer more than one hundred channels'.

(noun.) a path over which electrical signals can pass; 'a channel is typically what you rent from a telephone company'.

(noun.) (often plural) a means of communication or access; 'it must go through official channels'; 'lines of communication were set up between the two firms'.

(noun.) a deep and relatively narrow body of water (as in a river or a harbor or a strait linking two larger bodies) that allows the best passage for vessels; 'the ship went aground in the channel'.

(verb.) direct the flow of; 'channel information towards a broad audience'.

雨果录入--From WordNet

解释:

(n.) The hollow bed where a stream of water runs or may run.

(n.) The deeper part of a river, harbor, strait, etc., where the main current flows, or which affords the best and safest passage for vessels.

(n.) A strait, or narrow sea, between two portions of lands; as, the British Channel.

(n.) That through which anything passes; means of passing, conveying, or transmitting; as, the news was conveyed to us by different channels.

(n.) A gutter; a groove, as in a fluted column.

(n.) 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.

(v. t.) To form a channel in; to cut or wear a channel or channels in; to groove.

(v. t.) To course through or over, as in a channel.

录入:默多克

同义词及近义词：

n. [1]. Passage, duct, conduit, water-course.[2]. Gutter, furrow, fluting, chamfer.[3]. Strait, arm of the sea, narrow sea.[4]. Avenue, route, way.

v. a. Groove, flute, chamfer, cut furrows in, cut channels in.

录入:斯蒂芬妮

解释:

n. a flat piece of wood or iron projecting horizontally from a ship's side to spread the shrouds and keep them clear of the bulwarks—fore main and mizzen channels.

n. the bed of a stream of water: the deeper part of a strait bay or harbour: a strait or narrow sea: a groove or furrow: means of passing or conveying: (Scot.) gravel.—v.t. to make a channel: to furrow: to convey.—p.adj. Chann′elled.—The Channel the English Channel.

录入:斯蒂芬妮