channel
See also: Channel
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtʃænəl/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ænəl
Etymology 1
From Middle English chanel (also as canel, cannel, kanel), a borrowing from Old French chanel, canel, from Latin canālis (“groove; canal; channel”). Doublet of canal.
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.
- (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
Derived terms
Terms derived from channel (noun)
Related terms
Descendants
- → Welsh: sianel
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
- The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.
Etymology 2
From Middle English chanelen, from the noun (see above).
Verb
channel (third-person singular simple present channels, present participle channeling or channelling, simple past and past participle channelled or channeled)
- (transitive) To make or cut a channel or groove in.
- (transitive) To direct or guide along a desired course.
- We will channel the traffic to the left with these cones.
- (transitive, of a spirit, as of a dead person) To serve as a medium for.
- She was channeling the spirit of her late husband, Seth.
- (transitive) To follow as a model, especially in a performance.
- He was trying to channel President Reagan, but the audience wasn't buying it.
- 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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Etymology 3
From chainwale.
Noun
channel (plural channels)
References
- channel at OneLook Dictionary Search
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