Dictionary Definition
channel
Noun
1 a path over which electrical signals can pass;
"a channel is typically what you rent from a telephone company"
[syn: transmission
channel]
2 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"
3 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) [syn: groove]
4 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"
5 (often plural) a means of communication or
access; "it must go through official channels"; "lines of
communication were set up between the two firms" [syn: communication
channel, line]
6 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" [syn: duct, epithelial
duct, canal]
7 a television station and its programs; "a
satellite TV channel"; "surfing through the channels"; "they offer
more than one hundred channels" [syn: television
channel, TV
channel]
8 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" [syn: distribution
channel]
Verb
1 transmit or serve as the medium for
transmission; "Sound carries well over water"; "The airwaves carry
the sound"; "Many metals conduct heat" [syn: conduct, transmit, convey, carry]
3 send from one person or place to another;
"transmit a message" [syn: transmit, transfer, transport, channelize, channelise] [also: channelling, channelled]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- ˈtʃænəɫ
- Rhymes with: -ænəl
Noun
- The physical
confine of a river or slough, consisting of a bed and banks.
- The water coming out of the waterwheel created a standing wave in the channel.
- 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.
- The navigable part
of a river.
- We were careful to keep our boat in the channel.
- A narrow body of
water between two land masses.
- The English Channel lies between France and England.
- A connection
between initiating and
terminating nodes of a circuit.
- The guard-rail provided the channel between the downed wire and the tree.
- The narrow conducting portion of a MOSFET transistor.
- The part that connects a data source to a data sink.
- A channel stretches between them.
- A path for conveying
electrical or
electromagnetic
signals, usually
distinguished from other parallel paths.
- We are using one of the 24 channels.
- 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.
- 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.
- In the context of "broadcasting": 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.
- In the context of "broadcasting": A specific radio frequency or
band of frequencies used for transmitting television.
- NBC is on channel 11 in San Jose.
- In the context of "storage": 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.
- In the context of "technic": The way in a turbine pump where the pressure is built
up.
- The liquid is pressurized in the lateral channel.''
- A channel of distribution
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
physical confine of a river or slough
- Dutch: bedding, kanaal
natural or man-made deeper course through
shallow body of water
- Dutch: kanaal
navigable part of a river
- Dutch: kanaal
narrow body of water between two land masses
- Dutch: kanaal
- Sindhi:
electronics: connection between initiating and
terminating nodes of a circuit
communication: part that connects a data source
to a data sink
communication: path for conveying electrical or
electromagnetic signals
communication: single path provided by a
transmission medium via physical separation
communication: single path provided by a
transmission via spectral or protocol separation
broadcasting: specific radio frequency or band
of frequencies
- Dutch: kanaal, zender
- Finnish: kanava
- French: chaîne
- German: Kanal
- Italian: canale
- Japanese: チャンネル
- Mandarin: (píndào)
- Portuguese: canal
- Russian: канал
- Spanish: canal
broadcasting: specific radio frequency or band
of frequencies used for transmitting television
- Dutch: kanaal, zender
- Finnish: kanava
- French: chaîne
- German: Kanal
- Italian: canale
- Japanese: チャンネル
- Mandarin: (píndào)
- Portuguese: canal
- Russian: канал
- Spanish: canal
storage: portion of a storage medium that is
accessible to a given reading or writing station or head
technic: way in a turbine pump where the
pressure is built up
Translations to be checked (for television)
Verb
- To direct the
flow of something.
- We will channel the traffic to the left with these cones.
- To assume the
personality of
another person, typically a historic figure, in a theatrical or paranormal presentation.
- When it is my turn to sing Karaoke, I am going to channel Ray Charles.
Translations
direct the flow
- Danish: kanalisere
- Dutch: leiden, omleiden
- Finnish: kanavoida
- French: canaliser
- German: lenken
- Greek: διοχετεύω
- Italian: convogliare
- Japanese: 向ける
- Mandarin: (yǐndǎo)
- Polish: kierować
- Portuguese: canalizar
- Russian: направлять
- Spanish: canalizar, dirigir
- Swedish: kanalisera, leda
assume personality of other person
- Dutch: nadoen, imiteren
Extensive Definition
A channel means a narrow deep waterway connecting
two larger bodies of water; the deepest part of the waterway
Channel may also refer to:
- Canal, a manmade water channel
- English channel, the part of the Atlantic Ocean that separates Great Britain from northern France
- Channel, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
- Channel (Chinese medicine), also known as "Meridian", common name of vessel and collaterals
- Channel (communications), the route which a message follows
- Channel Home Centers, a now-defunct home improvement chain (similar to Home Depot) based in the northeast USA.
- Channel (football), football (soccer) terminology for particular areas of the pitch.
- Channel (geography), the course traveled by a body of water: (a) between land masses or (b) as a river or slough
- Channel (digital image), the black and white representation of a specific color
- Channel (marketing), the distribution "channel" for selling and delivering a product or service to a company's customers
- Ion channel, a channel in a plasma membrane which helps certain ions to enter/exit a biological cell
- Pulse Height Analyzer channel, in physics and technology, one of several in a nuclear electronics instrument that analyzes electronic pulse heights into a spectrum for later study.
- Scattering channel, in the quantum physics of scattering theory, a possible state of the colliding system.
- Television channel, a television station or its cable/satellite counterpart
- Active Channel, a website type which was introduced by Internet Explorer 4.0 in 1997
- Stereophonic sound, 2 channel stereo; Quadraphonic sound, 4 channel stereo
- Wii Menu, the channels-operated interface for the Wii console
- Channel I/O, hardware used for Input/Output on mainframe computers.
Channelling may also refer to:
- Medium (spirituality), through which disembodied spirits speak
- Channeler (The Wheel of Time), people who can wield the One Power in the fantasy series by Robert Jordan
- Channeling (Rolemaster), int the Rolemaster role-playing game
Channels may also refer to:
- Channels (band), a rock band fronted by ex-Jawbox singer/guitarist J. Robbins
See also
- Chanels TV, a Parisian fashion house
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
EDP,
access, adolescent
stream, adviser,
aisle, alley, amateur band, ambulatory, announcer, annunciator, aperture, approach, approaches, aqueduct, arcade, arroyo, artery, authority, avenue, band, basin, beck, bed, bit, blowhole, bottleneck, bottom, bourn, braided stream, branch, brook, brooklet, burn, canal, canalization, canalize, carry, carve, chamfer, channelize, chisel, chute, citizens band, cloister, colonnade, communicant, communication,
communication explosion, communication theory, communicator, conduct, conduit, connection, convey, corridor, corrugate, coulee, course, covered way, crack, creek, crick, crimp, cut, dado, data retrieval, data storage,
debouch, decoding, defile, dike, direct, ditch, door, duct, egress, electronic data
processing, emunctory,
encoding, engrave, enlightener, entrenchment, entropy, escape, estuary, exhaust, exit, expert witness, fairway, ferry, floodgate, floor, flowing stream, flume, flute, fluviation, ford, fosse, frequency band, fresh, freshet, funnel, furrow, gallery, gash, gill, goffer, gossipmonger, gouge, grapevine, groove, ground, guide, gully, gutter, ha-ha, incise, informant, information center,
information explosion, information medium, information theory,
informer, inlet, interchange, intersection, interviewee, isthmus, junction, kennel, kill, lane, lazy stream, lead, loophole, meandering stream,
means, medium, midchannel, midstream, millstream, moat, monitor, mouthpiece, moving road,
narrow, narrows, navigable river,
neck, newsmonger, noise, notifier, ocean bottom,
opening, out, outcome, outfall, outgate, outgo, outlet, overpass, pass, passage, passageway, path, pipe, pipeline, pleat, plow, police band, pore, port, portico, press, public relations officer,
publisher, put
through, put through channels, rabbet, race, racing stream, radio, radio channel, railroad
tunnel, redundancy,
reporter, rifle, river, rivulet, road, run, rundle, runlet, runnel, rut, sally port, score, scratch, sea lane, seaway, ship route, shortwave
band, signal, sike, siphon, slit, sluice, source, spill stream, spiracle, spokesman, spout, standard band, steamer
track, strait, streak, stream, stream action, streamlet, striate, subterranean river,
sunk fence, tap, television, teller, throat, tipster, tout, traject, trajet, transmit, trench, trough, tube, tunnel, underpass, vent, ventage, venthole, vomitory, wadi, watercourse, waterway, way, way out, weir, witness, wrinkle