channel

noun23

1. •
   The hollow bed of running waters; (also) the bed of the sea or other body of water.

   • The water coming out of the waterwheel created a standing wave in the channel.
2. •
   a television station with its own programs, and the set radio frequency over which it sends them out

   • NBC is on channel 11 in San Jose.
3. •
   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.
4. •
   Something through which another thing passes; a means of conveying or transmitting.

   • The news was conveyed to us by different channels.
5. •
   An ion channel: pore-forming proteins located in a cell membrane that allow specific ions to pass through.
6. •
   A distribution channel.
7. •
   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.
8. •
   The navigable part of a river.

   • We were careful to keep our boat in the channel.
9. •
   A narrow body of water between two land masses.

   • The English Channel lies between France and England.
10. •
    A connection between initiating and terminating nodes of a circuit.

    • The guard-rail provided the channel between the downed wire and the tree.
11. •
    The narrow conducting portion of a MOSFET transistor.
12. •
    The part that connects a data source to a data sink.

    • A channel stretches between them.
13. •
    A path for conveying electrical or electromagnetic signals, usually distinguished from other parallel paths.

    • We are using one of the 24 channels.
14. •
    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.
15. •
    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.
16. •
    (Internet) A particular area for conversations on an IRC or similar network, analogous to a chat room and often dedicated to a specific topic.
17. •
    A gutter; a groove, as in a fluted column.
18. •
    A psychic or medium who takes on the personality of a spirit and conveys messages from them.
19. •
    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.
20. •
    A structural member with a cross section shaped like a squared-off letter C.
21. •
    The part of a turbine pump where the pressure is built up.

    • The liquid is pressurized in the lateral channel.
22. •
    (Internet, historical) A means of delivering up-to-date Internet content via a push mechanism.

    • Netcaster is the "receiver" for channels that are built into Netscape 4.01 and later releases. — 1999
23. •
    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.

verb4

1. •
   To direct or guide along a desired course.

   • We will channel the traffic to the left with these cones.
2. •
   To follow as a model, especially in a performance.

   • He was trying to channel President Reagan, but the audience wasn't buying it.
   • When it is my turn to sing karaoke, I am going to channel Ray Charles.
3. •
   To serve as a medium for.

   • She was channeling the spirit of her late husband, Seth.
4. •
   To make or cut a channel or groove in.

noun2

1. •
   A former village and district of Channel-Port aux Basques, Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
2. •
   Ellipsis of English Channel: a strait in Europe, separating Great Britain from France and connecting the North Sea to the Atlantic Ocean.