Definition of Channel

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Channel

The hollow bed where a stream of water runs or may run.

The deeper part of a river, harbor, strait, etc., where the main current flows, or which affords the best and safest passage for vessels.

A strait, or narrow sea, between two portions of lands; as, the British Channel.

That through which anything passes; means of passing, conveying, or transmitting; as, the news was conveyed to us by different channels.

A gutter; a groove, as in a fluted column.

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.

To form a channel in; to cut or wear a channel or channels in; to groove.

To course through or over, as in a channel.

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Channel Quotations

Goals help you channel your energy into action.
Les Brown

Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.
James Allen

My father-in-law gets up at 5 o'clock in the morning and watches the Discovery Channel. I don't know why there's this big rush to do this.
Jeff Foxworthy

I had a really bad temper, when I was growing up. Sport helped me channel that temper into more positive acts.
Mike Krzyzewski

I am a channel for the Christ spirit. The title was given to me very recently by the Godhead.
David Icke

The Bristol Channel was always my guide, and I was always able to draw an imaginary line from my bed to our house over in Wales. It was a great comfort.
Roald Dahl

When you get something like MTV, it's like regular television. You get it, and at first it's novel and brand new and then you watch every channel, every show. And then you become a little more selective and more selective, until ultimately... you wind up with a radio.
David Lee Roth

I have a cooking show that's coming on that I did in Albany. It will be on The Cooking Channel.
Dom DeLuise

I remember when the first police scary video thing came out, and you thought, wow, ooh, look at this, come and look, come and look. And now it's on every channel.
Jennifer Saunders

Channel Translations

channel in Afrikaans is kanaal, buis
channel in Dutch is kanaal, wijk, gracht, vaart
channel in Finnish is putki, kanava
channel in French is tube, tuyau, canal
channel in German is Kanal
channel in Italian is programma
channel in Latin is fossa, canalis
channel in Portuguese is canaleta
channel in Spanish is cartelera, cauce, canal
channel in Swedish is kanal

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