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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.
stop
Verb
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If you stop, you do not move; you rest.
He stopped after running 2 miles.
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If you stop something or somebody, you prevent them from moving or doing something. You cause the person to cease moving or progressing.
The police tried to stop the criminal, but he was too fast.
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If you stop doing something, you are not doing it anymore. You have ceased doing it.
I stopped playing video games and went back to working on my project.
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If you stop, you come to the end of the time when one is doing something. You start doing a different thing or start doing nothing.
stop
Noun
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A stop is a place where buses, cars, taxis, or other vehicles halt to let passengers board or leave (get on or off).