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Webster 1913 Edition
Channel
1.
The hollow bed where a stream of water runs or may run.
2.
The deeper part of a river, harbor, strait, etc., where the main current flows, or which affords the best and safest passage for vessels.
3.
(Geog.)
A strait, or narrow sea, between two portions of lands;
as, the British
. Channel
4.
That through which anything passes; a means of passing, conveying, or transmitting;
as, the news was conveyed to us by different
. channels
The veins are converging
channels
. Dalton.
At best, he is but a
channel
to convey to the National assembly such matter as may import that body to know. Burke.
5.
A gutter; a groove, as in a fluted column.
6.
pl.
[Cf.
Chain wales
.] (Naut.)
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.
Channel bar
,
Channel iron
(Arch.)
, an iron bar or beam having a section resembling a flat gutter or channel.
– Channel bill
(Zool.)
, a very large Australian cuckoo (
– Scythrops Novæhollandiæ
. Channel goose
. (Zool.)
See
Gannet
.Chan′nel
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Channeled
, or Channelled
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Channeling
, or Channelling
.] 1.
To form a channel in; to cut or wear a channel or channels in; to groove.
No more shall trenching war
channel
her fields. Shakespeare
2.
To course through or over, as in a channel.
Cowper.
Webster 1828 Edition
Channel
CHANNEL
, n.1.
In a general sense, a passage; a place of passing or flowing; particularly, a water course.2.
The place where a river flows, including the whole breadth of the river. But more appropriately, the deeper part or hollow in which the principal current flows.3.
The deeper part of a strait, bay, or harbor, where the principal current flows, either of tide or fresh water, or which is the most convenient for the track of a ship.4.
That through which any thing passes; means of passing, conveying, or transmitting; as, the news was conveyed to us by different channels.5.
A gutter or furrow in a column.6.
An arm of the sea; a straight or narrow sea, between two continents, or between a continent and an isle; as the British or Irish channel.7.
Channels of a ship. [See Chain-wales.]CHANNEL
,Verb.
T.
Definition 2024
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English
Noun
channel (plural channels)
- The physical confine of a river or slough, consisting of a bed and banks.
- The water coming out of the waterwheel created a standing wave in the channel.
- The natural or man-made deeper course through a reef, bar, bay, or any shallow body of water.
- 2013 January 1, Nancy Langston, “The Fraught History of a Watery World”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 1, page 59:
- European adventurers found themselves within a watery world, a tapestry of streams, channels, wetlands, lakes and lush riparian meadows enriched by floodwaters from the Mississippi River.
- A channel was dredged to allow ocean-going vessels to reach the city.
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- The navigable part of a river.
- We were careful to keep our boat in the channel.
- A narrow body of water between two land masses.
- The English Channel lies between France and England.
- That through which anything passes; means of conveying or transmitting.
- The news was conveyed to us by different channels.
- Dalton
- The veins are converging channels.
- Burke
- At best, he is but a channel to convey to the National Assembly such matter as may import that body to know.
- A gutter; a groove, as in a fluted column.
- (nautical, in the plural) 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.
- (electronics) A connection between initiating and terminating nodes of a circuit.
- The guard-rail provided the channel between the downed wire and the tree.
- (electronics) The narrow conducting portion of a MOSFET transistor.
- (communication) The part that connects a data source to a data sink.
- A channel stretches between them.
- (communication) A path for conveying electrical or electromagnetic signals, usually distinguished from other parallel paths.
- We are using one of the 24 channels.
- (communication) A single path provided by a transmission medium via physical separation, such as by multipair cable.
- The channel is created by bonding the signals from these four pairs.
- (communication) A single path provided by a transmission medium via spectral or protocol separation, such as by frequency or time-division multiplexing.
- Their call is being carried on channel 6 of the T-1 line.
- (broadcasting) A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies, usually in conjunction with a predetermined letter, number, or codeword, and allocated by international agreement.
- KNDD is the channel at 107.7 MHz in Seattle.
- (broadcasting) A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies used for transmitting television.
- NBC is on channel 11 in San Jose.
- 2008, Lou Schuler, "Foreward", in Nate Green, Built for Show, page xi
- TV back then was five channels (three networks, PBS, and an independent station that ran I Love Lucy reruns), […]
- (storage) 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.
- This chip in this disk drive is the channel device.
- (technic) The way in a turbine pump where the pressure is built up.
- The liquid is pressurized in the lateral channel.
- (business, marketing) A distribution channel
- (Internet) A particular area for conversations on an IRC network, analogous to a chatroom and often dedicated to a specific topic.
- (Internet) An obsolete means of delivering up-to-date Internet content.
- 1999, Jeffrey S Rule, Dynamic HTML: The HTML Developer's Guide
- Netcaster is the "receiver" for channels that are built into Netscape 4.01 and later releases.
- 1999, Margaret Levine Young, Internet: The Complete Reference
- To access channels in Windows 98, you don't have to go any farther than your desktop.
- 1999, Jeffrey S Rule, Dynamic HTML: The HTML Developer's Guide
- A psychic or medium who temporarily takes on the personality of somebody else.
Synonyms
- (narrow body of water between two land masses) passage, sound, strait
- (for television) side (dated British, from when there were only two channels), station (US)
Derived terms
Terms derived from channel (noun)
Related terms
Translations
physical confine of a river or slough
natural or man-made deeper course through shallow body of water
narrow body of water between two land masses
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electronics: connection between initiating and terminating nodes of a circuit
communication: part that connects a data source to a data sink
communication: path for conveying electrical or electromagnetic signals
communication: single path provided by a transmission medium via physical separation
communication: single path provided by a transmission via spectral or protocol separation
broadcasting: specific radio frequency or band of frequencies
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broadcasting: specific radio frequency or band of frequencies used for transmitting television
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storage: portion of a storage medium that is accessible to a given reading or writing station or head
technic: way in a turbine pump where the pressure is built up
Verb
channel (third-person singular simple present channels, present participle channeling or channelling, simple past and past participle channelled or channeled)
- To direct the flow of something.
- We will channel the traffic to the left with these cones.
- To assume the personality of another person, typically a historic figure, in a theatrical or paranormal presentation.
- When it is my turn to sing karaoke, I am going to channel Ray Charles.
Derived terms
Translations
direct the flow
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assume personality of other person
Etymology 2
From chainwale
Noun
channel (plural channels)