| channel | |
| 1. n. 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. n. 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. n. The navigable part of a river. | |
| We were careful to keep our boat in the channel. | |
| 4. n. A narrow body of water between two land masses. | |
| The English Channel lies between France and England. | |
| 5. n. That through which anything passes; means of conveying or transmitting. | |
| The news was conveyed to us by different channels. | |
| 6. n. A gutter; a groove, as in a fluted column. | |
| 7. n. (electronics) A connection between initiating and terminating nodes of a circuit. | |
| The guard-rail provided the channel between the downed wire and the tree. | |
| 8. n. (electronics) The narrow conducting portion of a MOSFET transistor. | |
| 9. n. (communication) The part that connects a data source to a data sink. | |
| A channel stretches between them. | |
| 10. n. (communication) A path for conveying electrical or electromagnetic signals, usually distinguished from other parallel paths. | |
| We are using one of the 24 channels. | |
| 11. n. (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. n. (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. n. (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. | |
| 14. n. (broadcasting) A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies used for transmitting television. | |
| NBC is on channel 11 in San Jose. | |
| 15. n. (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. n. (technic) The way in a turbine pump where the pressure is built up. | |
| The liquid is pressurized in the lateral channel. | |
| 17. n. (business, marketing) A distribution channel | |
| 18. n. (Internet) A particular area for conversations on an IRC network, analogous to a chatroom and often dedicated to a specific topic. | |
| 19. n. (Internet) An obsolete means of delivering up-to-date Internet content. | |
| 20. n. A psychic or medium who temporarily takes on the personality of somebody else. | |
| 21. v. To make or cut a channel or groove in. | |
| 22. v. To direct or guide along a desired course. | |
| We will channel the traffic to the left with these cones. | |
| 23. v. (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. | |
| 24. v. 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. | |
| 25. n. (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 | |
