channel

Fetched 2026-10-31 (live).

Synonyms: charnel, chancel, cannel, chunnel, chantel, channer, channal, chanel, channell, shannel

Antonyms: charnel, chancel, cannel, chunnel, chantel, channer, channal, chanel, channell, shannel

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Noun

1. The hollow bed of running waters; the bed of the sea or other body of water.
   • The water coming out of the waterwheel created a standing wave in the channel.
2. The natural or man-made deeper course through a reef, bar, bay, or any shallow body of water.
   • A channel was dredged to allow ocean-going vessels to reach the city.
3. The navigable part of a river.
   • We were careful to keep our boat in the channel.
4. A narrow body of water between two land masses.
   • The English Channel lies between France and England.
5. Something through which another thing passes; a means of conveying or transmitting.
   • The news was conveyed to us by different channels.
6. An ion channel: pore-forming proteins located in a cell membrane that allow specific ions to pass through.
7. A gutter; a groove, as in a fluted column.
8. A structural member with a cross section shaped like a squared-off letter C.
9. A connection between initiating and terminating nodes of a circuit.
   • The guard-rail provided the channel between the downed wire and the tree.
10. The narrow conducting portion of a MOSFET transistor.
11. The part that connects a data source to a data sink.
    • A channel stretches between them.
12. A path for conveying electrical or electromagnetic signals, usually distinguished from other parallel paths.
    • We are using one of the 24 channels.
13. A single 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.
14. 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.
15. 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.
16. A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies used for transmitting television.
    • NBC is on channel 11 in San Jose.
17. 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.
18. The part of a turbine pump where the pressure is built up.
    • The liquid is pressurized in the lateral channel.
19. A distribution channel.
20. A particular area for conversations on an IRC or similar network, analogous to a chat room and often dedicated to a specific topic.
21. A means of delivering up-to-date Internet content via a push mechanism.
22. A psychic or medium who takes on the personality of a spirit and conveys messages from them.

Verb

1. To make or cut a channel or groove in.
2. To direct or guide along a desired course.
   • We will channel the traffic to the left with these cones.
3. To serve as a medium for.
   • She was channeling the spirit of her late husband, Seth.
4. To follow as a model, especially in a performance.
   • He was trying to channel President Reagan, but the audience wasn't buying it.
   • When it is my turn to sing karaoke, I am going to channel Ray Charles.

Noun

1. 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.

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