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1. 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.
2. The natural or man-made deeper course through a reef, bar, bay, or any shallow body of water.
A channel was dredged to allow ocean-going vessels to reach the city.
3. The navigable part of a river.
We were careful to keep our boat in the channel.
4. A narrow body of water between two land masses.
The English Channel lies between France and England.
5. Something through which another thing passes; a means of conveying or transmitting.
The news was conveyed to us by different channels.
6. A gutter; a groove, as in a fluted column.
7. A connection between initiating and terminating nodes of a circuit.
The guard-rail provided the channel between the downed wire and the tree.
8. The narrow conducting portion of a MOSFET transistor.
9. (communication) The part that connects a data source to a data sink.
A channel stretches between them.
10. (communication) A path for conveying electrical or electromagnetic signals, usually distinguished from other parallel paths.
We are using one of the 24 channels.
11. (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.
12. (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.
13. 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.
14. A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies used for transmitting television.
NBC is on channel 11 in San Jose.
15. (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.
16. (technic) The way in a turbine pump where the pressure is built up.
The liquid is pressurized in the lateral channel.
17. A distribution channel
18. A particular area for conversations on an IRC network, analogous to a chat room and often dedicated to a specific topic.
19. An obsolete means of delivering up-to-date Internet content.
20. A psychic or medium who temporarily takes on the personality of somebody else.
1. To make or cut a channel or groove in.
2. To direct or guide along a desired course.
We will channel the traffic to the left with these cones.
3. (of a spirit, as of a dead person) To serve as a medium for.
She was channeling the spirit of her late husband, Seth.
4. To follow as a model, especially in a performance.
He was trying to channel President Reagan, but the audience wasn't buying it.
1. 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.