channel
Meanings
noun
- The hollow bed of running waters; (also) the bed of the sea or other body of water.
- 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.
- 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.
- A structural member with a cross section shaped like a squared-off letter C.
- A connection between initiating and terminating nodes of a circuit.
- The narrow conducting portion of a MOSFET transistor.
- The part that connects a data source to a data sink.
- A path for conveying electrical or electromagnetic signals, usually distinguished from other parallel paths.
verb
- To make or cut a channel or groove in.
- To direct or guide along a desired course.
- To serve as a medium for.
- To follow as a model, especially in a performance.
noun
- 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.
name
- Ellipsis of English Channel: a strait in Europe, separating Great Britain from France and connecting the North Sea to the Atlantic Ocean.
name
- A former village and district of Channel-Port aux Basques, Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
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Etymology
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.
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