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Meaning channel meaning

What does channel mean?
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channel Noun

— The bottom and sides ("banks") of a river or other place where water moves. — The natural or man-made deeper course through a reef, bar, bay, or any shallow body of water. — The part of a river where boats can pass. We have to keep our boat in the channel. — A narrow body of water between two land masses. The English Channel lies between France and England. — The part that connects a data source to a data sink. A channel stretches between them. — A path for conveying electrical or electromagnetic signals. We are using one of the 24 channels. — 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. — 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. — 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. — A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies used for transmitting television. NBC is on channel 11 in San Jose. — 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 way in a turbine pump where the pressure is built up. The liquid is pressurized in the lateral channel.

channel Verb

— If you channel something, you direct its flow. We will channel the cars to the left. — To take on the personality of another person. When it is my turn to sing Karaoke, I am going to channel Ray Charles.

channel

— noun a path over which electrical signals can pass a channel is typically what you rent from a telephone company — noun a passage for water (or other fluids) to flow through the fields were crossed with irrigation channels gutters carried off the rainwater into a series of channels under the street — verb (= conduct, transmit, carry) transmit or serve as the medium for transmission Sound carries well over water The airwaves carry the sound Many metals conduct heat — verb direct the flow of channel information towards a broad audience — noun (= TV channel) a television station and its programs a satellite TV channel surfing through the channels they offer more than one hundred channels — noun (= line) (often plural) a means of communication or access it must go through official channels lines of communication were set up between the two firms — noun a deep and relatively narrow body of water (as in a river or a harbor or a strait linking two larger bodies) that allows the best passage for vessels the ship went aground in the channel — noun (= groove) a long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process (such as erosion) or by a tool (as e.g. a groove in a phonograph record) — noun (= distribution channel) a way of selling a company's product either directly or via distributors possible distribution channels are wholesalers or small retailers or retail chains or direct mailers or your own stores — noun (= duct, canal) a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance the tear duct was obstructed the alimentary canal poison is released through a channel in the snake's fangs — verb (= transmit) send from one person or place to another transmit a message

Synonyms channel synonyms

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Channel English » English

English Channel

Topics channel topics

What do people use channel to talk about?
States Quality Texture

Furrow
Universe, creation World Land

Valley
Universe, creation World Land

Underground
States Big Distance

Deep, shallow
Work and occupation Occupation

Working with water

Conjugation channel conjugation

How do you conjugate channel?

channel · verb

Examples channel examples

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Simple sentences

I appeared on television once, but I never knew which channel I was on.
My favorite YouTube channel is Deutsche Welle.
Can I change the channel?
Do you mind if I change the channel?
Turn to channel 1.
He is the only American who has swum the English Channel.
I was able to swim across The English Channel.
It's time for the news on Channel 79.
The boat was approaching the English Channel.
Don't change the channel.
He is the only American that has swum across the English Channel.
Turn on channel four.
InoTV is a Russian-language news channel.
You can hear English on Channel 1, and Japanese on Channel 7.
They are building a long bridge across the channel.
The English Channel separates England and France.
What is on Channel 10?

Movie subtitles

No, I-I get it, but you need to learn to channel some of that anger into the work.
I just have a lot of rage, and I haven't learned to channel it.
The channel's here on the chart. So are the marking lights.
Two light buoys mean a safe channel between the world over.
He hasn't left the bridge since you decided to come through the channel.
We're heading straight for the channel between Branca Island and the mainland.
I think that Mr. Rainsford should know. that the channel lights aren't just in the position given on the charts.
I was trying to make him understand there'd been a shipwreck in the channel.
Those channel lights must have been shifted.
But there are light buoys to mark the safe channel.
Dover reports an unidentified plane, no lights, taking off across the Channel an hour ago.
It's opened up a new channel in my imagination.. whichit'llbe interestingtoexplore during my lonely wanderings.
You will change to a boat which you'll take across the Channel.
Some French chap's flown the Channel.
I hear it's a bit rough in the channel.
Channel crossings extremely rough.
The channel's here on the chart.
Go ahead. We're heading straight for the channel between Branca Island and the mainland.
I think that Mr. Rainsford should know. that the channel lights aren't just in the position given on the charts. Oh.
We were up to our knees in water trying to get a drain ditch through to the main channel.
The Channel is full of air pockets.
I just have a lot of rage, and I haven't learned to channel it. - Why?
Near Edgecombe, about 40 miles up channel about two months afterwards.
Horrible morning for the channel crossing. I suppose he's gone now.
Mines in the channel.
I may be what you regard as a chair warmer now but a few months ago, I was flying with my squadron on fighter patrol over the English Channel at 30,000 feet.

News and current affairs

Progress in these areas would help governments to channel their spending more effectively toward those who would benefit the most.
Indeed, the credit channel is frozen and velocity has collapsed, with banks hoarding increases in base money in the form of excess reserves.
However, an important issue is rarely mentioned: in small, open economies - a description that applies to almost every country except the US - the main channel of monetary policy is the exchange rate.
This channel is ignored for one good reason: exchange-rate policies are fundamentally of the beggar-thy-neighbor variety.
He spoke French and seemed at ease with Britain's neighbors across the Channel; more importantly, he seemed to sympathize with European integration.
The easiest fix is to let foreigners in so that they can channel foreign capital into domestic private ventures.
The bones of contention that wrecked previous attempts to reach an Israeli-Syrian peace have realistic solutions, as was shown by the back-channel peace talks recently held between an Israeli ex-official and a Syrian with close connections to the regime.
Political legitimacy was validated by fear of anarchy, the terrifying reality of which had been observable across the Channel within living memory.
LAGUNA BEACH - One of the most difficult challenges facing Western governments today is to enable and channel the transformative - and, for individuals and companies, self-empowering - forces of technological innovation.
If this could be done quickly (which I think it could), such facilities could be an important channel for disbursing funds.
Migrants who have made it as far as France are living in tents near Calais, waiting for a chance to get to England by scrambling aboard a freight train passing through the Channel Tunnel.
The integrated grid can be imagined as a large ring, connecting Norway with the United Kingdom, and then linking across the channel to France, Belgium, and Holland, before moving on to Germany and returning to Scandinavia.
The EU has created a channel of communication with Turkey on political matters.
Putin himself once blamed the West for trying to channel Muslim radicalism toward Russia.
And it has an institution that can channel help: the International Monetary Fund.
Foreign policy during the Cold War, she says, was like steering within the Panama Canal; after the fall of the Berlin Wall, it was like steering within the English Channel - plenty of water on all sides, but land visible, too.
It is then that Britain can channel its unforgettable past while embracing its unavoidable future.
The emotional escalation may lead many people, on both sides of the English Channel, to conclude that the UK and the EU would each be better off without the other.
But, in their struggle to survive, they must channel popular anti-Americanism.
As a result, economic growth will slow, and China's domestic problems - such as income inequality - will worsen, even as political institutions that can channel popular grievances remain underdeveloped.
Britain's economic prospects increasingly depend on events beyond its shores, whether just across the English Channel or in China or California.
Many in Paris will argue in favor of putting a price on carbon, which most economists believe would channel consumption away from carbon-intensive fuels.
The challenge today is to channel such passions into results.

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