channel

Betekenis (Engels)

Noun

1. The hollow bed of running waters; (also) the bed of the sea or other body of water.
2. The natural or man-made deeper course through a reef, bar, bay, or any shallow body of water.
3. The navigable part of a river.
4. A narrow body of water between two land masses.
5. Something through which another thing passes; a means of conveying or transmitting.
6. 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. A structural member with a cross section shaped like a squared-off letter C.
9. A connection between initiating and terminating nodes of a circuit.
10. The narrow conducting portion of a MOSFET transistor.
11. The part that connects a data source to a data sink.
12. A path for conveying electrical or electromagnetic signals, usually distinguished from other parallel paths.
13. A single path provided by a transmission medium via physical separation, such as by multipair cable.
14. A single path provided by a transmission medium via spectral or protocol separation, such as by frequency or time-division multiplexing.
15. A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies, usually in conjunction with a predetermined letter, number, or codeword, and allocated by international agreement.
16. A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies used for transmitting television.
17. 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.
18. The part of a turbine pump where the pressure is built up.
19. A distribution channel.
20. (Internet) A particular area for conversations on an IRC or similar network, analogous to a chat room and often dedicated to a specific topic.
21. (Internet, historical) A means of delivering up-to-date Internet content via a push mechanism.
22. A psychic or medium who temporarily takes on the personality of somebody else.

Verb

1. (transitive) To make or cut a channel or groove in.
2. (transitive) To direct or guide along a desired course.
3. (transitive) To serve as a medium for.
4. (transitive) To follow as a model, especially in a performance.

Sinonieme

canal

strait

groove

ditch

duct

pipe

drain

course

path

🛣️

tube

watercourse

furrow

way

waterway

conduct

medium

gutter

route

barrel

mean

passage

convey

conduit

transmit

transport

bed

🛏️

trench

water-course

carry

trough

transfer

guide

lead

channelise

channelize

rut

direct

frequency channel

method

means

canalize

moat

transmission channel

line

aqueduct

trail

fluting

straits

drive

television channel

Vertalings

Kanal

canal

canal

canal

chaîne

canale

kanaal

κανάλι

chenal

détroit

kanal

canal

canaliser

Meerenge

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ˈt͡ʃænəl/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: chanel

Geërf van Middle English: chanelen

In summary

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.

Sinne

Honkarakenne also has a worldwide distribution channel and several sales offices abroad .