Channel
['tʃæn(ə)l] or ['tʃænl]
Definition
(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'.
Checked by Hugo--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
Editor: Murdoch
Synonyms and Synonymous
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.
Typist: Stephanie
Definition
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.
Typist: Stephanie
Examples
- The English Channel is a holy terror, all right, but it didn't affect me. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Yes, Wegg,' was the reply through the same channel. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- These jetties so concentrated the flow of waters into a narrow channel as to cause its increased velocity to wash out the mud and silt and deepen the channel. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The water thus discharged passes through a diversion channel in the old bed of the Chagres River, generating, by an enormous electric plant, the power necessary for operating the locks. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Shoe with outsole laid and rounded; channel lip turned up ready to be stitched. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- My thoughts flowed back into their former channel. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- If he, the Secretary, engaged that schoolmaster to impart it to him, the channel might be opened. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Her full nature, like that river of which Cyrus broke the strength, spent itself in channels which had no great name on the earth. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- When the demands and wishes of others forbid their direct expression they are easily driven into subterranean and deep channels. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Her commerce, instead of running in a great number of small channels, has been taught to run principally in one great channel. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- In case of a crevasse in this vicinity, the water escaping would find its outlet through the same channels. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The melted purified iron falling to the bottom was drawn off through a hole tapped in the furnace, and the molten metal ran into channels in a bed of sand called the Sow and pigs. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Activity is defined or specialized in certain channels. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Holmes shrugged his shoulders with a glance of comic resignation towards the Colonel, and the talk drifted away into less dangerous channels. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Machines for this purpose are called stone-channelling machines. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
Checker: Micawber