Définitions
1.NounThe hollow bed of running waters; the bed of the sea or other body of water."The water coming out of the waterwheel created a standing wave in the channel."
2.NounThe 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."
3.NounThe navigable part of a river."We were careful to keep our boat in the channel."
4.NounA narrow body of water between two land masses."The English Channel lies between France and England."
5.NounSomething through which another thing passes; a means of conveying or transmitting."The news was conveyed to us by different channels."
6.NounAn ion channel: pore-forming proteins located in a cell membrane that allow specific ions to pass through.
7.NounA gutter; a groove, as in a fluted column.
8.NounA structural member with a cross section shaped like a squared-off letter C.
9.NounA connection between initiating and terminating nodes of a circuit."The guard-rail provided the channel between the downed wire and the tree."
10.NounThe narrow conducting portion of a MOSFET transistor.
11.NounThe part that connects a data source to a data sink."A channel stretches between them."
12.NounA path for conveying electrical or electromagnetic signals, usually distinguished from other parallel paths."We are using one of the 24 channels."
13.NounA 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."
14.NounA 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."
15.NounA 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."
16.NounA specific radio frequency or band of frequencies used for transmitting television."NBC is on channel 11 in San Jose."
17.NounThe 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."
18.NounThe part of a turbine pump where the pressure is built up."The liquid is pressurized in the lateral channel."
19.NounA distribution channel.
20.NounA particular area for conversations on an IRC or similar network, analogous to a chat room and often dedicated to a specific topic.
21.NounA means of delivering up-to-date Internet content via a push mechanism.
22.NounA psychic or medium who temporarily takes on the personality of somebody else.
23.VerbTo make or cut a channel or groove in.
24.VerbTo direct or guide along a desired course."We will channel the traffic to the left with these cones."
25.VerbTo serve as a medium for."She was channeling the spirit of her late husband, Seth."
26.VerbTo 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."
27.NounThe 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.