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alternative
Adjective
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An alternative approach, way, source, etc. is not the usual one.
Do you have some alternative transportation in case the car breaks down.
They're not really a pop band. They're more alternative than that.
I recommend an alternative lifestyle.
alternative
Noun
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An alternative is something else that you can choose.
We only have two alternatives: stay here or go back.
St Mungo's shelter for the homeless offers a new alternative to sleeping on the streets.
channel
Noun
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The bottom and sides ("banks") of a river or other place where water moves.
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The natural or man-made deeper course through a reef, bar, bay, or any shallow body of water.
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The part of a river where boats can pass.
We have to keep our boat in the channel.
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A narrow body of water between two land masses.
The English Channel lies between France and England.
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The part that connects a data source to a data sink.
A channel stretches between them.
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A path for conveying electrical or electromagnetic signals.
We are using one of the 24 channels.
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A 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.
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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.
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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.
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A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies used for transmitting television.
NBC is on channel 11 in San Jose.
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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.
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The way in a turbine pump where the pressure is built up.
The liquid is pressurized in the lateral channel.
channel
Verb
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If you channel something, you direct its flow.
We will channel the cars to the left.
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To take on the personality of another person.
When it is my turn to sing Karaoke, I am going to channel Ray Charles.