Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 3
natural or man-made deeper course through shallow body of water:
physical confine of a river or slough:
narrow body of water between two land masses:
Русский
By meaning 4
natural or man-made deeper course through shallow body of water:
physical confine of a river or slough:
navigable part of a river:
narrow body of water between two land masses:
Deutsch
narrow body of water between two land masses:
groove, as in a fluted column:

Examples

402 sentences
  1. Is it OK if I change the channel?

    Можна мені переключити канал? — deniko

    ruНичего, если я переключу? — marafon

    deIst es in Ordnung, wenn ich den Kanal wechsle? — Yorwba

  2. Don't change the channel.

    Не переключай канал. — deniko

    ruНе переключайте канал. — odexed

    deNicht den Sender wechseln! — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  3. Tom changed the channel.

    Том переключив канал. — deniko

    ruТом переключил канал. — marafon

    deTom schaltete um. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

Meaning

23 senses
  1. 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.

    кана́лkanál

    кана́лkanál

  2. A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies used for transmitting television.

    NBC is on channel 11 in San Jose.

    Kanal, Kanal

    кана́лkanál, кана́лkanál

    кана́лkanál, кана́лkanál

  3. The navigable part of a river.

    We were careful to keep our boat in the channel.

    ру́слоrúslo, ло́жеlóže, кана́лkanál

    рі́чищеríčyšče, ру́слоrúslo, кори́тоkorýto

More meanings 20
  1. A path for conveying electrical or electromagnetic signals, usually distinguished from other parallel paths.

    We are using one of the 24 channels.

    кана́лkanál

    a path over which electrical signals can pass

  2. A narrow body of water between two land masses.

    The English Channel lies between France and England.

    Kanal, Straße, Meeresstraße

    прото́кprotók, проли́вprolív

    проли́вprolýv, прото́каprotóka

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

    Kannelierung

  4. The hollow bed of running waters; (also) the bed of the sea or other body of water.

    The water coming out of the waterwheel created a standing wave in the channel.

  5. Something through which another thing passes; a means of conveying or transmitting.

    The news was conveyed to us by different channels.

  6. A connection between initiating and terminating nodes of a circuit.

    The guard-rail provided the channel between the downed wire and the tree.

    кана́лkanál

  7. The part that connects a data source to a data sink.

    A channel stretches between them.

    кана́лkanál

    кана́лkanál

  8. 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.

    кана́лkanál

  9. 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.

    кана́лkanál

Origin

From Middle English chanel (also as canel, cannel, kanel), a borrowing from Old French cha

From Middle English chanel (also as canel, cannel, kanel), a borrowing from Old French chanel, canel, from Latin canālis (“groove; canal; channel”). Doublet of canal.

From chainwale.

Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

Forms

plural: channels
Singularchannel
Pluralchannels

regular

Synonyms

13 synonyms
A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies used…:sideA1
A narrow body of water between two land masses:passageA2
A gutter:groove
A structural member with a cross section shaped like a…:C-channel
Close in meaning
  • a path over which electrical signals can pass:transmission channel
  • 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):groove
  • (often plural) a means of communication or access:communication channelline
  • a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance:ductepithelial ductcanal
  • a television station and its programs:television channelTV channel
  • a way of selling a company's product either directly or via distributors:distribution channel

Word family

73 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

channel — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto