channel

B1
Pronunciation
/ˈtʃænəl/
Noun
21 definition(s)
1 Definition

The physical confine of a river or slough, consisting of a bed and banks.

Example Sentences
  • The water coming out of the waterwheel created a standing wave in the channel.
2 Definition

The natural or man-made deeper course through a reef, bar, bay, or any shallow body of water.

Example Sentences
  • A channel was dredged to allow ocean-going vessels to reach the city.
3 Definition

The navigable part of a river.

Example Sentences
  • We were careful to keep our boat in the channel.
4 Definition

A narrow body of water between two land masses.

Example Sentences
  • The English Channel lies between France and England.
5 Definition

Something through which another thing passes; a means of conveying or transmitting.

Example Sentences
  • The news was conveyed to us by different channels.
6 Definition

A gutter; a groove, as in a fluted column.

7 Definition

A connection between initiating and terminating nodes of a circuit.

Example Sentences
  • The guard-rail provided the channel between the downed wire and the tree.
8 Definition

The narrow conducting portion of a MOSFET transistor.

9 Definition

(communication) The part that connects a data source to a data sink.

Example Sentences
  • A channel stretches between them.
10 Definition

(communication) A path for conveying electrical or electromagnetic signals, usually distinguished from other parallel paths.

Example Sentences
  • We are using one of the 24 channels.
11 Definition

(communication) A single path provided by a transmission medium via physical separation, such as by multipair cable.

Example Sentences
  • The channel is created by bonding the signals from these four pairs.
12 Definition

(communication) A single path provided by a transmission medium via spectral or protocol separation, such as by frequency or time-division multiplexing.

Example Sentences
  • Their call is being carried on channel 6 of the T-1 line.
13 Definition

A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies, usually in conjunction with a predetermined letter, number, or codeword, and allocated by international agreement.

Example Sentences
  • KNDD is the channel at 107.7 MHz in Seattle.
14 Definition

A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies used for transmitting television.

Example Sentences
  • NBC is on channel 11 in San Jose.
15 Definition

(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.

Example Sentences
  • This chip in this disk drive is the channel device.
16 Definition

(technic) The way in a turbine pump where the pressure is built up.

Example Sentences
  • The liquid is pressurized in the lateral channel.
17 Definition

A distribution channel

18 Definition

A particular area for conversations on an IRC network, analogous to a chat room and often dedicated to a specific topic.

19 Definition

An obsolete means of delivering up-to-date Internet content.

20 Definition

A psychic or medium who temporarily takes on the personality of somebody else.

21 Definition

The wale of a sailing ship which projects beyond the gunwale and to which the shrouds attach via the chains. One of the 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.

Verb
4 definition(s)
1 Definition

To make or cut a channel or groove in.

2 Definition

To direct or guide along a desired course.

Example Sentences
  • We will channel the traffic to the left with these cones.
3 Definition

(of a spirit, as of a dead person) To serve as a medium for.

Example Sentences
  • She was channeling the spirit of her late husband, Seth.
4 Definition

To follow as a model, especially in a performance.

Example Sentences
  • He was trying to channel President Reagan, but the audience wasn't buying it.