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channel
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?t?æn?l/
- Hyphenation: chan?nel
- Rhymes: -æn?l
Etymology 1
From Middle English chanel (also as canel, cannel, kanel), a borrowing from Old French chanel, canel, from Latin can?lis (“groove; canal; channel”). Doublet of canal.
Noun
channel (plural channels)
- The physical confine of a river or slough, consisting of a bed and banks.
- The water coming out of the waterwheel created a standing wave in the channel.
- The natural or man-made deeper course through a reef, bar, bay, or any shallow body of water.
- A channel was dredged to allow ocean-going vessels to reach the city.
- The navigable part of a river.
- We were careful to keep our boat in the channel.
- A narrow body of water between two land masses.
- The English Channel lies between France and England.
- Something through which another thing passes; a means of conveying or transmitting.
- The news was conveyed to us by different channels.
- 1859, John Call Dalton, A Treatise on Human Physiology
- The veins are converging channels.
- 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France
- At best, he is but a channel to convey to the National Assembly such matter as may import that body to know.
- A gutter; a groove, as in a fluted column.
- (electronics) A connection between initiating and terminating nodes of a circuit.
- The guard-rail provided the channel between the downed wire and the tree.
- (electronics) The narrow conducting portion of a MOSFET transistor.
- (communication) The part that connects a data source to a data sink.
- A channel stretches between them.
- (communication) A path for conveying electrical or electromagnetic signals, usually distinguished from other parallel paths.
- We are using one of the 24 channels.
- (communication) A single path provided by a transmission medium via physical separation, such as by multipair cable.
- The channel is created by bonding the signals from these four pairs.
- (communication) A single path provided by a transmission medium via spectral or protocol separation, such as by frequency or time-division multiplexing.
- Their call is being carried on channel 6 of the T-1 line.
- (broadcasting) A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies, usually in conjunction with a predetermined letter, number, or codeword, and allocated by international agreement.
- KNDD is the channel at 107.7 MHz in Seattle.
- (broadcasting) A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies used for transmitting television.
- 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), […]
- (storage) 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.
- This chip in this disk drive is the channel device.
- (technic) The way in a turbine pump where the pressure is built up.
- The liquid is pressurized in the lateral channel.
- (business, marketing) A distribution channel
- (Internet) A particular area for conversations on an IRC network, analogous to a chat room and often dedicated to a specific topic.
- (Internet, historical) A means of delivering up-to-date Internet content.
- 1999, Jeffrey S Rule, Dynamic HTML: The HTML Developer's Guide
- Netcaster is the "receiver" for channels that are built into Netscape 4.01 and later releases.
- 1999, Jeffrey S Rule, Dynamic HTML: The HTML Developer's Guide
- A psychic or medium who temporarily takes on the personality of somebody else.
Synonyms
- (narrow body of water between two land masses) passage, sound, strait
- (for television) side (dated British, from when there were only two channels), station (US)
- (groove, as in a fluted column) groove, gutter
Derived terms
Related terms
- canal
Descendants
- ? Japanese: ????? (channeru)
- ? Korean: ?? (chaeneol)
- ? Welsh: sianel
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English chanelen, from the noun (see above).
Verb
channel (third-person singular simple present channels, present participle channeling or channelling, simple past and past participle channelled or channeled)
- (transitive) To make or cut a channel or groove in.
- (transitive) To direct or guide along a desired course.
- We will channel the traffic to the left with these cones.
- (transitive, of a spirit, as of a dead person) To serve as a medium for.
- She was channeling the spirit of her late husband, Seth.
- (transitive) To follow as a model, especially in a performance.
- He was trying to channel President Reagan, but the audience wasn't buying it.
- When it is my turn to sing karaoke, I am going to channel Ray Charles.
Derived terms
- backchannel
Translations
Etymology 3
From a corruption of chainwale.
Noun
channel (plural channels)
- (nautical) 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.
References
- channel at OneLook Dictionary Search
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vehicle
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French véhicule, from Latin vehiculum (“a carriage, conveyance”), from vehere (“to carry”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?vi?.?.k?l/, /?v??.k?l/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?vi.?.k?l/, /?vi?(h)?.k?l/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /?v??(?).k?l/
- Hyphenation: ve?hi?cle
Noun
vehicle (plural vehicles)
- A conveyance; a device for carrying or transporting substances, objects or individuals.
- A medium for expression of talent or views.
- A liquid content (e.g. oil) which acts as a binding and drying agent in paint.
- (pharmaceuticals) The main excipient (such as an oil or gel) that conveys the active ingredient of a drug.
- An entity to achieve an end.
- (Buddhism) A mode or method of spiritual practice; a yana.
- (Hinduism) An animal or (rarely) a plant on which a Hindu deity rides or sits
Synonyms
- (Hinduism): vahan
Hyponyms
- See also Thesaurus:vehicle
Derived terms
Related terms
- vector
- vectorial
- vectorize
Translations
Further reading
- vehicle in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- vehicle in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- vehicle at OneLook Dictionary Search
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin vehiculum.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic) IPA(key): /v??i.kl?/
- (Central) IPA(key): /b??i.kl?/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /ve?i.kle/
Noun
vehicle m (plural vehicles)
- vehicle
Related terms
- vehicular
Further reading
- “vehicle” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
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