Meaning

23 senses
  1. 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.

    a passage for water (or other fluids) to flow through

  2. 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

  3. The navigable part of a river.

    We were careful to keep our boat in the channel.

    ру́слоrúslo, ло́жеlóže, кана́лkanál

    рі́чищеríčyšče, ру́слоrúslo, кори́тоkorýto

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

    The English Channel lies between France and England.

    Kanal, Straße, Meeresstraße

    прото́кprotók, проли́вprolív

    проли́вprolýv, прото́каprotóka

    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

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

    The news was conveyed to us by different channels.

  6. An ion channel: pore-forming proteins located in a cell membrane that allow specific ions to pass through.

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

    Kannelierung

  8. A structural member with a cross section shaped like a squared-off letter C.

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

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

    кана́лkanál

  10. The narrow conducting portion of a MOSFET transistor.

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

    A channel stretches between them.

    кана́лkanál

    кана́лkanál

  12. 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

Examples

413 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

  4. Turn to channel 1.

    Включіть перший канал. — deniko

    ruПереключи на первый канал. — Balamax

    deWechsle auf Kanal eins. — Esperantostern

  5. Change the channel.

    Переключи канал. — deniko

    ruПереключи канал. — marafon

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
communication: single path provided by a transmission medium via physical separation:
physical confine of a river or slough:
navigable part of a river:
narrow body of water between two land masses:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
narrow body of water between two land masses:
groove, as in a fluted column:

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.

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Forms

plural: channels
Singularchannel
Pluralchannels

regular

Synonyms

17 synonyms
narrow body of water between two land masses:passageA2
for television:sideA1
groove, as in a fluted column:groove
structural member:C-channel
Close in meaning
  • a television station and its programs:television channelTV channel
  • a path over which electrical signals can pass:transmission channel
  • (often plural) a means of communication or access:communication channelline
  • a way of selling a company's product either directly or via distributors:distribution 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
  • a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance:ductepithelial ductcanal

Word family

73 related words

See also

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