channel

noun · verbB1

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noun

Plural noun:

channels

1.
The hollow bed of running waters; (also) 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.
(biochemistry) 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.
(construction, mechanical engineering) A structural member with a cross section shaped like a squared-off letter C.
9.
(electronics) A connection between initiating and terminating nodes of a circuit.
The guard-rail provided the channel between the downed wire and the tree.
10.
(electronics) The narrow conducting portion of a MOSFET transistor.
11.
(communication) The part that connects a data source to a data sink.
A channel stretches between them.
12.
(communication) A path for conveying electrical or electromagnetic signals, usually distinguished from other parallel paths.
We are using one of the 24 channels.

Động từ

verb

V_es/s

channels

V_ing/Gerund

channeling

V_ed/pp

channellingchanneled

1.
(transitive)To make or cut a channel or groove in.
2.
(transitive)To direct or guide along a desired course.
We will channel the traffic to the left with these cones.
3.
(transitive)(transitive, of a spirit, as of a dead person) To serve as a medium for.
She was channeling the spirit of her late husband, Seth.
4.
(transitive)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.

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Đồng nghĩa

groove gutter passage sound strait side stationfor television side, stationgroove, gutterstructural member C-channel

Cùng gốc / liên quan

canal

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle English chanel (also as canel, cannel, kanel), a borrowing from Old French chanel, canel, from Latin canālis (groove; canal; channel). Doublet of canal.