Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world. Each year Brazil exports more than 44 million bags of coffee. Vietnam follows at exporting over 27 million bags each year.
CHANNELS
channels
(noun) official routes of communication; “you have to go through channels”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
channels
plural of channel
Noun
channels pl (plural only)
Formal lines of command and procedure.
Verb
channels
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of channel
Source: Wiktionary
CHANNEL
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
Word of the Day
18 January 2025
SHTIK
(noun) (Yiddish) a little; a piece; “give him a shtik cake”; “he’s a shtik crazy”; “he played a shtik Beethoven”
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