channel
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See also: Channel
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle English chanel (also as canel, cannel, kanel), a borrowing from Old French chanel, canel, from Latin canālis (“groove; canal; channel”). Doublet of canal.
Noun
channel (plural channels)
- 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.
- The natural or man-made deeper course through a reef, bar, bay, or any shallow body of water.
- 2013 January, Nancy Langston, “The Fraught History of a Watery World”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 1, archived from the original on 22 January 2013, page 59:
- European adventurers found themselves within a watery world, a tapestry of streams, channels, wetlands, lakes and lush riparian meadows enriched by floodwaters from the Mississippi River.
- A channel was dredged to allow ocean-going vessels to reach the city.
- The navigable part of a river.
- We were careful to keep our boat in the channel.
- A narrow body of water between two land masses.
- The English Channel lies between France and England.
- Something through which another thing passes; a means of conveying or transmitting.
- The news was conveyed to us by different channels.
- 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, pages 69–70:
- But I write to tell you what you will hear through all the various channels by which news travels,...
- 1859, John Call Dalton, A Treatise on Human Physiology:
- The veins are converging channels.
- 1790 November, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. […], London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], →OCLC:
- At best, he is but a channel to convey to the National Assembly such matter as may import that body to know.
- (biochemistry) An ion channel: pore-forming proteins located in a cell membrane that allow specific ions to pass through.
- A gutter; a groove, as in a fluted column.
- (construction, mechanical engineering) A structural member with a cross section shaped like a squared-off letter C.
- 1960, “Structural Shapes”, in Construction Materials, Concrete Construction, and Engineer Computations, U.S. Government Printing Office:
- The channel is not very efficient as a beam or column when used alone, but built-up members may be constructed of channels assembled together with other structural shapes and connected by rivets or welds.
- (electronics) A connection between initiating and terminating nodes of a circuit.
- The guard-rail provided the channel between the downed wire and the tree.
- (electronics) The narrow conducting portion of a MOSFET transistor.
- (communication) The part that connects a data source to a data sink.
- A channel stretches between them.
- (communication) A path for conveying electrical or electromagnetic signals, usually distinguished from other parallel paths.
- We are using one of the 24 channels.
- (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.
- (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.
- (broadcasting) 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.
- (broadcasting) A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies used for transmitting television.
- NBC is on channel 11 in San Jose.
- 2008, Lou Schuler, "Foreward", in Nate Green, Built for Show, page xi
- TV back then was five channels (three networks, PBS, and an independent station that ran I Love Lucy reruns), […]
- (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.
- The part of a turbine pump where the pressure is built up.
- The liquid is pressurized in the lateral channel.
- (business, marketing) A distribution channel.
- (Internet) A particular area for conversations on an IRC or similar network, analogous to a chat room and often dedicated to a specific topic.
- 1996, Susan C. Herring, Computer-mediated Communication, page 50:
- The excerpt in Figure 1 below shows a list of some channel names as they appear to an IRC user. The left hand column displays the channel name, the middle column displays how many people are currently on the channel, and the right hand column indicates the theme of the channel or the current topic of conversation: […]
- (Internet, historical) A means of delivering up-to-date Internet content via a push mechanism.
- 1999, Jeffrey S Rule, Dynamic HTML: The HTML Developer's Guide:
- Netcaster is the "receiver" for channels that are built into Netscape 4.01 and later releases.
- 1999, Margaret Levine Young, Internet: The Complete Reference:
- To access channels in Windows 98, you don't have to go any farther than your desktop.
- A psychic or medium who temporarily takes on the personality of somebody else.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Terms derived from channel (noun)
- alpha channel
- back-channel
- back channel
- Bashi Channel
- Beagle Channel
- Bristol Channel
- calcium channel blocker
- change the channel
- channel bass
- channel-bill cuckoo
- channel-billed cuckoo
- channel black
- channel cat
- channel catfish
- channel changer
- channel coal
- channel drift
- channeler
- channel fever
- channel flashing
- channel hop
- channel-hop
- channel-hopping
- channelisation
- Channel Islands
- channelization
- channelize
- channel money
- channel of distribution
- channelography
- channelome
- channelopathy
- channel plate
- channelrhodopsin
- channel stopper
- channel stuffing
- channel surf
- channel-surf
- Channel Tunnel
- channelward
- channelwards
- chocolate channel
- cochannel
- co-channel interference
- covert channel
- cross-channel
- cross channel
- eigenchannel
- enchannel
- English Channel
- frequency channel
- Gardos channel
- hemichannel
- interchannel
- intrachannel
- ion channel
- linear channel
- macrochannel
- megachannel
- mesochannel
- metachannel
- microchannel
- midchannel
- mischannel
- multichannel
- nanochannel
- navigation channel
- news channel
- omnichannel
- palaeochannel
- paleochannel
- potassium channel
- pseudochannel
- rechannel
- rechannelization
- rechannelize
- sidechannel
- side-channel
- sodium channel
- SOFAR channel
- sofar channel
- subchannel
- superchannel
- television channel
- timeshift channel
- TV channel
Related terms
Descendants
Translations
physical confine of a river or slough
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natural or man-made deeper course through shallow body of water
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narrow body of water between two land masses
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biochemistry: pore-forming membrane proteins — see ion channel
groove, as in a fluted column
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structural member with a cross section shaped like a squared-off letter C — see C-channel
electronics: connection between initiating and terminating nodes of a circuit
communication: part that connects a data source to a data sink
communication: path for conveying electrical or electromagnetic signals
communication: single path provided by a transmission medium via physical separation
communication: single path provided by a transmission via spectral or protocol separation
broadcasting: specific radio frequency or band of frequencies
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broadcasting: specific radio frequency or band of frequencies used for transmitting television
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storage: portion of a storage medium that is accessible to a given reading or writing station or head
technic: way in a turbine pump where the pressure is built up
- The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.
Etymology 2
From Middle English chanelen, from the noun (see above).
Verb
channel (third-person singular simple present channels, present participle channeling or channelling, simple past and past participle channelled or channeled)
- (transitive) To make or cut a channel or groove in.
- (transitive) To direct or guide along a desired course.
- We will channel the traffic to the left with these cones.
- 1997, Eric J Evans, Thatcher and Thatcherism:
- The resources channelled to those institutions which showed themselves most adept at formfilling, self-promotion and presentation were inadequate to sustain the quality they claimed.
- 2009 April 3, Hugh Muir, “Diary”, in The Guardian:
- But the real excitement is to be found in Erith and Thamesmead, where the Blairites in exile are channelling their hopes on Georgia Gould, 22, daughter of Mr Tony's famed pollmeister Philip.
- (transitive, of a spirit, as of a dead person) To serve as a medium for.
- She was channeling the spirit of her late husband, Seth.
- (transitive) 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.
- 2007 June 17, Bob Morris, “Mirth, in Honor of Dad”, in The New York Times:
- So I handed out lyrics by Allan Sherman, the shticky 1960s parody writer who my father revered and channeled to the end.
- 2008 April 27, John Mcwhorter, “Talking the Talk”, in The New York Times:
- He is channeling the most narcotic form of oratory in modern America for whites as well as blacks: a preacherly style of speaking rooted in black American tradition.
Derived terms
Translations
direct the flow
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Etymology 3
From a corruption of chainwale.
Noun
channel (plural channels)
References
- “channel”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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