Meaning of channel | Babel Free

Definitions

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.
2. Ellipsis of English Channel: a strait in Europe, separating Great Britain from France and connecting the North Sea to the Atlantic Ocean.
   Europe, abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
3. A former village and district of Channel-Port aux Basques, Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
4. canal, flume, waterway (artificial)
5. The hollow bed of running waters; (also) the bed of the sea or other body of water.
6. channel (wide strait)
7. The natural or man-made deeper course through a reef, bar, bay, or any shallow body of water.
8. A wood or steel ledge projecting from a sailing ship's sides to spread the shrouds and keep them clear of the gunwales.
9. The navigable part of a river.
10. a horizontal timber or ledge built outboard from the side of a sailing vessel to spread shrouds and backstays outward.
11. A narrow body of water between two land masses.
12. canal; estructura tubular;birth ___ → ___ del parto.
13. cleavage
14. Something through which another thing passes; a means of conveying or transmitting.
15. The bed of a stream or river.
16. An ion channel: pore-forming proteins located in a cell membrane that allow specific ions to pass through.
17. The deeper part of a river or harbor, especially a deep navigable passage.
18. A gutter; a groove, as in a fluted column.
19. A broad strait, especially one that connects two seas.
20. A structural member with a cross section shaped like a squared-off letter C.
21. A trench, furrow, or groove.
22. A connection between initiating and terminating nodes of a circuit.
23. A tubular passage for liquids; a conduit.
24. The narrow conducting portion of a MOSFET transistor.
25. A course or pathway through which information is transmitted: new channels of thought; a reliable channel of information.
26. The part that connects a data source to a data sink.
27. often channels A route of communication or access: took her request through official channels.
28. A path for conveying electrical or electromagnetic signals, usually distinguished from other parallel paths.
29. A single path provided by a transmission medium via physical separation, such as by multipair cable.
30. A single path provided by a transmission medium via spectral or protocol separation, such as by frequency or time-division multiplexing.
31. A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies, usually in conjunction with a predetermined letter, number, or codeword, and allocated by international agreement.
32. A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies used for transmitting television.
33. 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.
34. The part of a turbine pump where the pressure is built up.
35. A distribution channel.
36. A particular area for conversations on an IRC or similar network, analogous to a chat room and often dedicated to a specific topic.
    Internet
37. A means of delivering up-to-date Internet content via a push mechanism.
    Internet, historical
38. A psychic or medium who temporarily takes on the personality of somebody else.

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Examples

“The water coming out of the waterwheel created a standing wave in the channel.”

“A channel was dredged to allow ocean-going vessels to reach the city.”

“European adventurers found themselves within a watery world, a tapestry of streams, channels, wetlands, lakes and lush riparian meadows enriched by floodwaters from the Mississippi River.”

“We were careful to keep our boat in the channel.”

“The English Channel lies between France and England.”

“Our citizens and our businesses on both sides of the channel need more security and predictability for the future”

“The news was conveyed to us by different channels.”

“But I write to tell you what you will hear through all the various channels by which news travels,...”

“The veins are converging channels.”

“At best, he is but a channel to convey to the National Assembly such matter as may import that body to know.”

“The channel is not very efficient as a beam or column when used alone, but built-up members may be constructed of channels assembled together with other structural shapes and connected by rivets or welds.”

“The guard-rail provided the channel between the downed wire and the tree.”

“A channel stretches between them.”

“We are using one of the 24 channels.”

“The channel is created by bonding the signals from these four pairs.”

“Their call is being carried on channel 6 of the T-1 line.”

“KNDD is the channel at 107.7 MHz in Seattle.”

“NBC is on channel 11 in San Jose.”

“2008, Lou Schuler, "Foreward", in Nate Green, Built for Show, page xi TV back then was five channels (three networks, PBS, and an independent station that ran I Love Lucy reruns), […]”

“This chip in this disk drive is the channel device.”

“The liquid is pressurized in the lateral channel.”

“The excerpt in Figure 1 below shows a list of some channel names as they appear to an IRC user. The left hand column displays the channel name, the middle column displays how many people are currently on the channel, and the right hand column indicates the theme of the channel or the current topic of conversation: […]”

“Netcaster is the "receiver" for channels that are built into Netscape 4.01 and later releases.”

“To access channels in Windows 98, you don't have to go any farther than your desktop.”

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