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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.
frame
Noun
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The parts of a building that are strong and that hold the other parts up.
Now that the frame is done, we can start on the walls.
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The strong parts (bones) of a person's body.
His starved flesh hung on his frame.
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Something, often made of wood, around the outside of a picture.
The painting was in a beautifully carved frame.
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The outer part of a stamp's image, usually decorated.
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A part of a strip of photographic film, the size of one image.
A film projector shows many frames in a single second.
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A way of understanding, a point of view.
In this frame, it's easy to ask the question that the investigators missed.
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A game of snooker, from break-off until all the balls have been potted.
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A chunk of data sent over the wires of a network.
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In bowling, a set of balls whose results are added for scoring.
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A division of time on a multimedia timeline, such as 1/30th of a second.
frame
Verb
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People frame a building when they put together the strong parts while they're building or constructing it.
Once we finish framing the house, we'll hang tin on the roof.
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Someone frames a picture such as a painting or photograph when they add a decorative border.
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Someone who is taking a picture with a camera frames something when they carefully put it inside the edges of the picture in a nice way.
The director frames the fishing scene very well.
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To put together words to make a point of view (way of thinking) for understanding or interpretation.
How would you frame your accomplishments?
The way the opposition has framed the argument makes it hard for us to win.
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Someone frames someone else of a crime such as murder that they didn't do when they make things seem as if the person did the crime.
He put the gun in her car to try to frame her.