Hypertext Webster Gateway: "channel"
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary (easton)
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
channel
n 1: a path over which electrical signals can pass [syn: {transmission
channel}]
2: a passage for water (or other fluids) [syn: {conduit}]
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 relatively narrow body of water linking two larger bodies;
"the ship went aground in the channel" [syn: {sound}]
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 conveying a secretion or other
substance [syn: {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}]
v 1: transmit or serve as the medium for transmission, as of
sounds or images; "Sound carries well over water"; "The
airwaves carry the sound"; "Many metals conduct heat"
[syn: {conduct}, {transmit}, {convey}, {carry}]
2: direct the flow of; also used abstractly, as of money or
information [syn: {canalize}, {canalise}]
3: send from one person or place to another; "transmit a
message" [syn: {transmit}, {transfer}, {transport}, {channelize}]
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