channel

Meaning

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.

Synonyms

canal

strait

groove

ditch

duct

pipe

drain

course

furrow

path

🛣️

tube

watercourse

way

conduct

gutter

waterway

medium

route

convey

conduit

mean

passage

barrel

transmit

trench

transport

bed

🛏️

transfer

frequency channel

guide

rut

water-course

channelise

carry

channelize

direct

trough

lead

track

television channel

trail

transmission channel

sound

🔉

method

canalise

drive

aqueduct

canalize

line

moat

means

fluting

straits

notch

communication channel

model

stripe

direction

meridian

mode

station

🚉

TV channel

creek

source

dig

circuit

passage-way

stream

manger

river

riverbed

strip

cause to flow

fairway

trace

epithelial duct

slot

distribution channel

cut

wage

agency

vehicle

bring

conductor

impart

pit

port

project

propel

quirk

quit

race

raceway

radiofrequency channel

re

reach

rebate

redesign

refashion

refer

relocate

remodel

remove

reorganize

reshape

resource

restyle

result

revamp

rework

rivulet

run

scour

seaway

second

2nd

send

send in

send out

sewer

ship

🚢

show

show the way

sink

steer

sulcus

take

take away

thoroughfare

tideway

tract

transit

transmitter

truck

🚚

usher

valley

wake

walkway

warp

water channel

waterways

welt

wire

wiring

carry forward

CH

dig a ditch

drain off

give directions

irrigation ditch

navigable channel

navigation pass

river-bed

river channel

waterborne canal

drainage channel

floodway

sluiceway

wavecanal

access

air

cannulise

line of fate

mail out

wave duct

small watercourse

stream channel

sailing course

lock approach

runoff area

abut

RF channel

accomplish

achieve

adjoin

agent

alight

alley

amount

arrive at

arroyo

artery

attain

beam

bear

🐻

be next to

brook

bus

🚌

career

carrier

ch

chain

chamfer

chase

chauffeur

chute

closed circuit

closed path

communicate

complete

consign

conveyance

conveyer

conveyor

corrugate

decoct

deliver

department

dispatch

drainage

drainage ditch

dribble

drive around

emerge

emissary

enlighten

entryway

exit

expedient

factor

ferry

⛴️

floodplain

flume

flute

🪈

fly

✈️

gangway

gash

get

get off

go out

gravel

gut

harbor

haul

header

instrument

instrumentality

intermediary

irrigation canal

jaw

leave

lever

lines

longitude

mail

marshal

meatus

middle

midst

network

nick

origin

pass

pass through

pathway

piggyback

Translations

Kanal

canal

canal

chaîne

canale

kanaal

chenal

canaliser

détroit

kanal

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈt͡ʃænəl/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: chanel

Inherited from 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.

Sentences

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