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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



... with his uncle as long as he could remember. He had never known his father or mother, and his uncle never spoke of them. In case Frank asked any question concerning his parents, Mr. Dent would manage to turn the conversation into some other channel. ...
— Frank Roscoe's Secret • Allen Chapman
... a single man, and he an officer and such an officer as ye never set eyes on be fore, except, mayhap, in the fashion that a cat looks upon a king? I should like to see the man, among ye all, who can handle a heavy ship, in a narrow channel, as I have seen master Harry here handle ...
— The Red Rover • James Fenimore Cooper
... friends—as necessary as their transaction of business together in a gipsy way at untimely hours of the morning and evening, and in rushes and snatches. There were friends who seemed to be always coming and going across the Channel, on errands about the Bourse, and Greek and Spanish and India and Mexican and par and premium and discount and three quarters and seven eighths. There were other friends who seemed to be always lolling ...
— Our Mutual Friend • Charles Dickens
... the people had nothing to complain of, they would not listen to the conspirators. But there, I know we shall never agree about this. When the war is over you must cross the channel, and ...
— The Cornet of Horse - A Tale of Marlborough's Wars • G. A. Henty
... selected, and despatched to Japan as instructors in the Yeddo Naval College. Amongst these officers, it may be interesting to state, was Admiral Sir A. K. Wilson, V.C., G.C.B., the late Commander-in-Chief of the Channel Fleet. In the year 1873 a number of other naval officers were sent out from England, the previous staff having been withdrawn on the outbreak of the Civil War. This staff was in charge of Admiral Sir ...
— The Empire of the East • H. B. Montgomery


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