channel
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biochemistry
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electrical-engineering
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Etymology: 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.
Inflected forms:
form: channels
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: channels
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: channeling
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
present
form: channelling
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
present
form: channeled
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
past
form: channeled
pos: verb
tags: US
past
form: channelled
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
past
form: channelled
pos: verb
tags: UK
past
Senses:
gloss: The hollow bed of running waters; (also) the bed of the sea or other body of water.
pos: noun
examples: The water coming out of the waterwheel created a standing wave in the channel.
gloss: The natural or man-made deeper course through a reef, bar, bay, or any shallow body of water.
pos: noun
examples: A channel was dredged to allow ocean-going vessels to reach the city.
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.
gloss: The navigable part of a river.
pos: noun
examples: We were careful to keep our boat in the channel.
gloss: A narrow body of water between two land masses.
pos: noun
examples: The English Channel lies between France and England.
Our citizens and our businesses on both sides of the channel need more security and predictability for the future
gloss: Something through which another thing passes; a means of conveying or transmitting.
pos: noun
examples: The news was conveyed to us by different channels.
But I write to tell you what you will hear through all the various channels by which news travels,...
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.
gloss: An ion channel: pore-forming proteins located in a cell membrane that allow specific ions to pass through.
pos: noun
gloss: A gutter; a groove, as in a fluted column.
pos: noun
gloss: A structural member with a cross section shaped like a squared-off letter C.
pos: noun
examples: The channel is not very efficient as a beam or column when used alone, but built-up members may be constructed of channels assembled together with other structural shapes and connected by rivets or welds.
gloss: A connection between initiating and terminating nodes of a circuit.
pos: noun
examples: The guard-rail provided the channel between the downed wire and the tree.
gloss: The narrow conducting portion of a MOSFET transistor.
pos: noun
gloss: The part that connects a data source to a data sink.
pos: noun
examples: A channel stretches between them.
gloss: A path for conveying electrical or electromagnetic signals, usually distinguished from other parallel paths.
pos: noun
examples: We are using one of the 24 channels.
gloss: A single path provided by a transmission medium via physical separation, such as by multipair cable.
pos: noun
examples: The channel is created by bonding the signals from these four pairs.
gloss: A single path provided by a transmission medium via spectral or protocol separation, such as by frequency or time-division multiplexing.
pos: noun
examples: Their call is being carried on channel 6 of the T-1 line.
gloss: A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies, usually in conjunction with a predetermined letter, number, or codeword, and allocated by international agreement.
pos: noun
examples: KNDD is the channel at 107.7 MHz in Seattle.
gloss: A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies used for transmitting television.
pos: noun
examples: 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), […]
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
examples: This chip in this disk drive is the channel device.
gloss: The part of a turbine pump where the pressure is built up.
pos: noun
examples: The liquid is pressurized in the lateral channel.
gloss: A distribution channel.
pos: noun
gloss: A particular area for conversations on an IRC or similar network, analogous to a chat room and often dedicated to a specific topic.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
examples: The excerpt in Figure 1 below shows a list of some channel names as they appear to an IRC user. The left hand column displays the channel name, the middle column displays how many people are currently on the channel, and the right hand column indicates the theme of the channel or the current topic of conversation: […]
gloss: A means of delivering up-to-date Internet content via a push mechanism.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
historical
examples: Netcaster is the "receiver" for channels that are built into Netscape 4.01 and later releases.
To access channels in Windows 98, you don't have to go any farther than your desktop.
gloss: A psychic or medium who temporarily takes on the personality of somebody else.
pos: noun
gloss: To make or cut a channel or groove in.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To direct or guide along a desired course.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: We will channel the traffic to the left with these cones.
The resources channelled to those institutions which showed themselves most adept at formfilling, self-promotion and presentation were inadequate to sustain the quality they claimed.
But the real excitement is to be found in Erith and Thamesmead, where the Blairites in exile are channelling their hopes on Georgia Gould, 22, daughter of Mr Tony's famed pollmeister Philip.
gloss: To serve as a medium for.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: She was channeling the spirit of her late husband, Seth.
gloss: To follow as a model, especially in a performance.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
So I handed out lyrics by Allan Sherman, the shticky 1960s parody writer who my father revered and channeled to the end.
He is channeling the most narcotic form of oratory in modern America for whites as well as blacks: a preacherly style of speaking rooted in black American tradition.
Synonyms: sound
strait
station
gutter
Related words: canal
Derived words: alpha channel
back channel
back-channel
barker channel
Bashi Channel
Beagle Channel
Bristol Channel
calcium channel blocker
change the channel
channel bass
channel-bill cuckoo
channel-billed cuckoo
channel black
channel cat
channel catfish
channel changer
channel coal
channel drift
channeler
channel fever
channel flashing
channel flicker
channel goose
channel hop
channel-hop
channel-hopping
channelisation
Channel Islands
channelization
channelize
channel money
channel of distribution
channelography
channelome
channelopathy
channel plate
channelrhodopsin
channel section
channel stopper
channel stuffing
channel surf
channel-surf
Channel Tunnel
channelward
channelwards
chocolate channel
clear-channel
cochannel
co-channel interference
covert channel
cross channel
cross-channel
eigenchannel
enchannel
English Channel
frequency channel
Gardos channel
hemichannel
interchannel
intrachannel
ion channel
linear channel
macrochannel
megachannel
mesochannel
metachannel
microchannel
midchannel
mischannel
multichannel
nanochannel
navigation channel
news channel
omnichannel
palaeochannel
paleochannel
Palmers Channel
potassium channel
pseudochannel
rechannel
rechannelization
rechannelize
sidechannel
side-channel
sodium channel
SOFAR channel
sofar channel
subchannel
superchannel
television channel
timeshift channel
TV channel
backchannel
Translations:
lang: Azerbaijani
word: kanal
lang: Dutch
word: kanaal
lang: Finnish
word: kanava
lang: Russian
word: кана́л
roman: kanál
lang: Tagalog
word: alunan
lang: Albanian
word: kanal
lang: Arabic
word: قَنَاة
roman: qanāh
lang: Armenian
word: ալիք
roman: alikʻ
lang: Azerbaijani
word: kanal
lang: Belarusian
word: кана́л
roman: kanál
lang: Bengali
word: চ্যানেল
roman: cênel
lang: Bulgarian
word: кана́л
roman: kanál
lang: Catalan
word: canal
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 頻道 /频道
roman: pan⁴ dou⁶
lang: Chinese
word: 頻道 /频道
roman: zh-min-nan
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 頻道 /频道
roman: píndào
lang: Danish
word: kanal
lang: Dutch
word: kanaal
lang: Dutch
word: zender
lang: Esperanto
word: kanalo
lang: Estonian
word: kanal
lang: Finnish
word: kanava
lang: French
word: chaîne
lang: Galician
word: canle
lang: Georgian
word: არხი
roman: arxi
lang: German
word: Kanal
lang: Greek
word: κανάλι
roman: kanáli
lang: Hindi
word: चैनल
roman: cainal
lang: Icelandic
word: kanall
lang: Irish
word: cainéal
lang: Irish
word: bealach
lang: Italian
word: canale
lang: Japanese
word: チャンネル
roman: channeru
lang: Kazakh
word: канал
roman: kanal
lang: Korean
word: 채널
roman: chaeneol
lang: Kyrgyz
word: канал
roman: kanal
lang: Latvian
word: kanāls
lang: Lithuanian
word: kanalas
lang: Macedonian
word: канал
roman: kanal
lang: Malay
word: saluran
lang: Māori
word: roma
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: kanal
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: kanal
lang: Iranian Persian
word: کانال
roman: kânâl
lang: Portuguese
word: canal
lang: Romanian
word: canal
lang: Russian
word: кана́л
roman: kanál
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ка̀на̄л
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: kànāl
lang: Slovak
word: kanál
lang: Slovene
word: kanal
lang: Spanish
word: canal
lang: Swedish
word: kanal
lang: Tagalog
word: alunan
lang: Tajik
word: канал
roman: kanal
lang: Thai
word: ช่อง
roman: chɔ̂ng
lang: Turkish
word: kanal
lang: Turkmen
word: kanal
lang: Ukrainian
word: кана́л
roman: kanál
lang: Urdu
word: چَینَل
roman: cainal
lang: Uzbek
word: kanal
lang: Vietnamese
word: kênh
lang: Welsh
word: sianel
lang: Dutch
word: nadoen
lang: Dutch
word: imiteren
lang: Finnish
word: kanavoida
lang: German
word: nachmachen
lang: German
word: nachahmen
lang: German
word: nacheifern
lang: Italian
word: imitare
lang: Portuguese
word: imitar
lang: Russian
word: изображать
roman: izobražatʹ
lang: Russian
word: играть
roman: igratʹ