channel
(noun) a passage for water (or other fluids) to flow through; “the fields were crossed with irrigation channels”; “gutters carried off the rainwater into a series of channels under the street”
channel, television channel, TV channel
(noun) a television station and its programs; “a satellite TV channel”; “surfing through the channels”; “they offer more than one hundred channels”
duct, epithelial duct, canal, channel
(noun) a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance; “the tear duct was obstructed”; “the alimentary canal”; “poison is released through a channel in the snake’s fangs”
channel, transmission channel
(noun) a path over which electrical signals can pass; “a channel is typically what you rent from a telephone company”
channel, communication channel, line
(noun) (often plural) a means of communication or access; “it must go through official channels”; “lines of communication were set up between the two firms”
channel
(noun) a deep and relatively narrow body of water (as in a river or a harbor or a strait linking two larger bodies) that allows the best passage for vessels; “the ship went aground in the channel”
groove, channel
(noun) a long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process (such as erosion) or by a tool (as e.g. a groove in a phonograph record)
transmit, transfer, transport, channel, channelize, channelise
(verb) send from one person or place to another; “transmit a message”
channel
(verb) direct the flow of; “channel information towards a broad audience”
impart, conduct, transmit, convey, carry, channel
(verb) transmit or serve as the medium for transmission; “Sound carries well over water”; “The airwaves carry the sound”; “Many metals conduct heat”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
the Channel
(by ellipsis) the English Channel
channel (plural channels)
The physical confine of a river or slough, consisting of a bed and banks.
The natural or man-made deeper course through a reef, bar, bay, or any shallow body of water.
The navigable part of a river.
A narrow body of water between two land masses.
Something through which another thing passes; a means of conveying or transmitting.
A gutter; a groove, as in a fluted column.
(electronics) A connection between initiating and terminating nodes of a circuit.
(electronics) The narrow conducting portion of a MOSFET transistor.
(communication) The part that connects a data source to a data sink.
(communication) A path for conveying electrical or electromagnetic signals, usually distinguished from other parallel paths.
(communication) A single path provided by a transmission medium via physical separation, such as by multipair cable.
(communication) A single path provided by a transmission medium via spectral or protocol separation, such as by frequency or time-division multiplexing.
(broadcasting) A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies, usually in conjunction with a predetermined letter, number, or codeword, and allocated by international agreement.
(broadcasting) A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies used for transmitting television.
(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.
(technic) The way in a turbine pump where the pressure is built up.
(business, marketing) A distribution channel
(Internet) A particular area for conversations on an IRC network, analogous to a chat room and often dedicated to a specific topic.
(Internet) An obsolete means of delivering up-to-date Internet content.
A psychic or medium who temporarily takes on the personality of somebody else.
• (narrow body of water between two land masses) passage, sound, strait
• (for television) side (dated British, from when there were only two channels), station (US)
• (groove, as in a fluted column) groove, gutter
channel (third-person singular simple present channels, present participle channelling or channeling, simple past and past participle channeled or channelled)
(transitive) To make or cut a channel or groove in.
(transitive) To direct or guide along a desired course.
(transitive, of a spirit, as of a dead person) To serve as a medium for.
(transitive) To follow as a model, especially in a performance.
channel (plural channels)
(nautical) 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.
Source: Wiktionary
Chan"nel, n. Etym: [OE. chanel, canel, OF. chanel, F. chenel, fr. L. canalis. See Canal.]
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.)
Definition: A strait, or narrow sea, between two portions of lands; as, the British Channel.
4. That through which anything passes; means of passing, conveying, or transmitting; as, the news was conveyed to us by different channels. The veins are converging channels. Dalton. At best, he is but a channel to convey to the National assembly such matter as may import that body to know. Burke.
5. A gutter; a groove, as in a fluted column.
6. pl. Etym: [Cf. Chain wales.] (Naut.)
Definition: 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. Channel bar, Channel iron (Arch.), an iron bar or beam having a section resembling a flat gutter or channel.
– Channel bill (Zoöl.), a very large Australian cucko (Scythrops Novæhollandiæ.
– Channel goose. (Zoöl.) See Gannet.
Chan"nel, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Channeled, or Channelled; p. pr. & vb. n. 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. Shak.
2. To course through or over, as in a channel. Cowper.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
12 January 2025
(noun) (psychology) an automatic pattern of behavior in reaction to a specific situation; may be inherited or acquired through frequent repetition; “owls have nocturnal habits”; “she had a habit twirling the ends of her hair”; “long use had hardened him to it”
Contrary to popular belief, coffee beans are not technically beans. They are referred to as such because of their resemblance to legumes. A coffee bean is a seed of the Coffea plant and the source for coffee. It is the pit inside the red or purple fruit, often referred to as a cherry. Just like ordinary cherries, the coffee fruit is also a so-called stone fruit.
