channel

Meanings

Noun

• The physical confine of a river or slough, consisting of a bed and banks.
• The natural or man-made deeper course through a reef, bar, bay, or any shallow body of water.
• The navigable part of a river.
• A narrow body of water between two land masses.
• Something through which another thing passes; a means of conveying or transmitting.
• A gutter; a groove, as in a fluted column.
• A structural member with a cross section shaped like a squared-off letter C.
• A connection between initiating and terminating nodes of a circuit.
• The narrow conducting portion of a MOSFET transistor.
• The part that connects a data source to a data sink.
• A path for conveying electrical or electromagnetic signals, usually distinguished from other parallel paths.
• A single path provided by a transmission medium via physical separation, such as by multipair cable.
• A single path provided by a transmission medium via spectral or protocol separation, such as by frequency or time-division multiplexing.
• A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies, usually in conjunction with a predetermined letter, number, or codeword, and allocated by international agreement.
• A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies used for transmitting television.
• 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.
• The way in a turbine pump where the pressure is built up.
• A distribution channel
• A particular area for conversations on an IRC network, analogous to a chat room and often dedicated to a specific topic.
• A means of delivering up-to-date Internet content.
• A psychic or medium who temporarily takes on the personality of somebody else.
• 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.

Verb

• To make or cut a channel or groove in.
• To direct or guide along a desired course.
• To serve as a medium for.
• To follow as a model, especially in a performance.

Related

Similar words

• passage, sound, strait
• side , station
• groove, gutter
• C-channel

Origin

• From Middle English chanel (also as canel, cannel, kanel), a borrowing from Old French chanel, canel, from Latin canālis. Doublet of canal.
• From Middle English chanelen, from the noun (see above).
• From a corruption of chainwale.