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Channel   /tʃˈænəl/   Listen
noun
Channel  n.  
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." "At best, he is but a channel to convey to the National assembly such matter as may import that body to know."
5.
A gutter; a groove, as in a fluted column.
6.
pl. (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.
7.
pl. Official routes of communication, especially the official means by which information should be transmitted in a bureaucracy; as, to submit a request through channels; you have to go through channels.
8.
A band of electromagnetic wave frequencies that is used for one-way or two-way radio communication; especially, the frequency bands assigned by the FTC for use in television broadcasting, and designated by a specific number; as, channel 2 in New York is owned by CBS.
9.
One of the signals in an electronic device which receives or sends more than one signal simultaneously, as in stereophonic radios, records, or CD players, or in measuring equipment which gathers multiple measurements simultaneously.
10.
(Cell biology) An opening in a cell membrane which serves to actively transport or allow passive transport of substances across the membrane; as, an ion channel in a nerve cell.
11.
(Computers) A path for transmission of signals between devices within a computer or between a computer and an external device; as, a DMA channel.
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 Novaehollandiae.
Channel goose. (Zool.) See Gannet.


verb
Channel  v. t.  (past & past part. channeled or channelled; pres. part. 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."
2.
To course through or over, as in a channel.





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"Channel" Quotes from Famous Books



... never having gotten acquainted with her. The problem is not one of religion, but of commonsense in economics. Back to the land!" Of course a writing woman who could think like this was deeply interested in the unrest across the Channel. ...
— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Vol. 13 - Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers • Elbert Hubbard
... you see here and there a speck of mud itself, emerging above the surface, and barely large enough to be noticed, and after a while these small islands grow together and you begin to realize that there are distinctly defined banks each side of the broad muddy channel through which you are sailing, intersected here and there by other channels extending in every direction. Twenty miles perhaps from the place where you first perceived indications of real mud, the land will be firm enough ...
— The Twenty-fifth Regiment Connecticut Volunteers in the War of the Rebellion • George P. Bissell
... two processes depend upon two different natural principles. The Mutilation of a member, for instance, finds its analogue in the horticultural operation of pruning, where the object is to divert life from a useless into a useful channel. A part of a plant which previously monopolized a large share of the vigor of the total organism, but without yielding any adequate return, is suddenly cut off, so that the vital processes may proceed more actively in some fruitful parts. Christ's use of this figure is well-known: "Every ...
— Natural Law in the Spiritual World • Henry Drummond
... cannot be called as a witness to hate. But the great foe of Rome never observed his oath more faithfully than I shall that compact which I have made with myself and the powers of my nature: to turn all my strength and time and capacity into the channel of hate against England. Oh, how poor are words and looks and acts to express that fire which rages in the weakest ...
— The Art of Disappearing • John Talbot Smith
... the rock above him, Carse swiftly found the channel—a vertical bore several feet wide, in one corner of the ceiling. Its rock sides glowed redly, and at their end was a round black patch that caused his heart to leap with hope. Outer space!—and a short, straight escape to it! In a flash he saw how ...
— The Passing of Ku Sui • Anthony Gilmore


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