Channel : (noun)
1: a path over which electrical signals can pass; "a channel is
typically what you rent from a telephone company" [syn:
transmission channel]
2: 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"
3: 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) [syn: groove]
4: 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"
5: (often plural) a means of communication or access; "it must
go through official channels"; "lines of communication
were set up between the two firms" [syn: communication
channel, line]
6: a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and
conveying a secretion or other substance; "the tear duct
was obstructed"; "the alimentary canal"; "poison is
released through a channel in the snake's fangs" [syn: duct,
epithelial duct, canal]
7: a television station and its programs; "a satellite TV
channel"; "surfing through the channels"; "they offer more
than one hundred channels" [syn: television channel, TV
channel]
8: 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" [syn: distribution channel]
(verb)
1: transmit or serve as the medium for transmission; "Sound
carries well over water"; "The airwaves carry the
sound"; "Many metals conduct heat" [syn: conduct, transmit,
convey, carry]
2: direct the flow of; "channel infomartion towards a broad
audience" [syn: canalize, canalise]
3: send from one person or place to another; "transmit a
message" [syn: transmit, transfer, transport, channelize,
channelise]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Channel : \Chan"nel\, n. [OE. chanel, canel, OF. chanel, F.
chenel, fr. L. canalis. See Canal.]
1. The hollow bed where a stream of water runs or may run.
2. The deeper part of a river, harbor, strait, etc., where
the main current flows, or which affords the best and
safest passage for vessels.
3. (Geog.) A strait, or narrow sea, between two portions of
lands; as, the British Channel.
4. That through which anything passes; means of passing,
conveying, or transmitting; as, the news was conveyed to
us by different channels.
The veins are converging channels. --Dalton.
At best, he is but a channel to convey to the
National assembly such matter as may import that
body to know. --Burke.
5. A gutter; a groove, as in a fluted column.
6. pl. [Cf. Chain wales.] (Naut.) 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.
Channel bar, Channel iron (Arch.), an iron bar or beam
having a section resembling a flat gutter or channel.
Channel bill (Zo["o]l.), a very large Australian cuckoo
({Scythrops Nov[ae]hollandi[ae].
Channel goose. (Zo["o]l.) See Gannet.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Channel : \Chan"nel\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Channeled, or
Channelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Channeling, or
Channelling.]
1. To form a channel in; to cut or wear a channel or channels
in; to groove.
No more shall trenching war channel her fields.
--Shak.
2. To course through or over, as in a channel. --Cowper.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Channel :
(Or "chat room", "room", depending on the system in
question) The basic unit of group discussion in chat systems
like IRC. Once one joins a channel, everything one types is
read by others on that channel. Channels can either be named
with numbers or with strings that begin with a "#" sign and
can have topic descriptions (which are generally irrelevant to
the actual subject of discussion).
Some notable channels are "#initgame", "#hottub" and
"#report". At times of international crisis, "#report" has
hundreds of members, some of whom take turns listening to
various news services and typing in summaries of the news, or
in some cases, giving first-hand accounts of the action
(e.g. Scud missile attacks in Tel Aviv during the Gulf War in
1991).
[{Jargon File]
(1998-01-25)
Based on the Online Dictionary of Computing [Computer_Dictionary]:
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Channel : n. [IRC] The basic unit of discussion on IRC. Once one joins
a channel, everything one types is read by others on that channel.
Channels are named with strings that begin with a `#' sign and can have
topic descriptions (which are generally irrelevant to the actual subject
of discussion). Some notable channels are `#initgame', `#hottub',
`callahans', and `#report'. At times of international crisis, `#report'
has hundreds of members, some of whom take turns listening to various
news services and typing in summaries of the news, or in some cases,
giving first-hand accounts of the action (e.g., Scud missile attacks in
Tel Aviv during the Gulf War in 1991).
Based on Jargon File : [Hackers_Dictionary]:
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Channel : (1.) The bed of the sea or of a river (Ps. 18:15; Isa. 8:7).
(2.) The "chanelbone" (Job 31:22 marg.), properly "tube" or
"shaft," an old term for the collar-bone.
Based on Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [Hackers_Dictionary]:
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