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US
/ˈtʃænəɫ/
]
[ UK /tʃˈænəl/ ]
[ UK /tʃˈænəl/ ]
NOUN
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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 -
a path over which electrical signals can pass
a channel is typically what you rent from a telephone company -
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 - 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)
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a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance
poison is released through a channel in the snake's fangs
the tear duct was obstructed
the alimentary canal -
(often plural) a means of communication or access
it must go through official channels
lines of communication were set up between the two firms -
a television station and its programs
a satellite TV channel
they offer more than one hundred channels
surfing through the channels -
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
VERB
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transmit or serve as the medium for transmission
The airwaves carry the sound
Sound carries well over water
Many metals conduct heat -
send from one person or place to another
transmit a message -
direct the flow of
channel information towards a broad audience
How To Use channel In A Sentence
- As sea levels rose and the northern Channel Islands separated, each fox population became genetically distinct.
- The criticism is valid up to a point, but television channels are a bit like human beings: none are wholly good or bad.
- I have been finding the BBC a bit vanilla of late and will check out Channel 4 news instead.
- The black and white images suggested a lunar surface with bright elevated land masses, grooved by sloping drainage channels and seemingly surrounded by dark, still pools of oily liquid.
- Erna Hart is going to swim across the English Channel tomorrow.
- By this time, Dad and I had replaced the old dipole with a short Yagi array, horizontally polarized of course, and screwed to one of the crossbeams in the attic, so now we had three channels with excellent reception.
- Shortly after the demolition of the tower, the reef, as if enraged at having been denied a number of victims owing to the existence of the warning light, trapt the "Winchelsea" as she was swinging up Channel, and smashed her to atoms, with enormous loss of life. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 2 Great Britain and Ireland, Part 2
- If you have more than the duty-free allowance or prohibited goods, you go through the red channel and declare them to a customs officer.
- The channel's viewership is ageing, and attempts to attract younger watchers have yet to bear fruit.
- (Regular posters such as Kurland put up more on their own 3-D YouTube channels.) USATODAY.com Weather News
