Channel

Definition: Channel

Channel

Noun

1. A path over which electrical signals can pass.

2. A passage for water (or other fluids).

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).

4. A relatively narrow body of water linking two larger bodies; "the ship went aground in the channel".

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".

6. A bodily passage or tube conveying a secretion or other substance.

7. A television station and its programs; "a satellite TV channel"; "surfing through the channels"; "they offer more than one hundred channels".

Verb

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".

2. Direct the flow of; also used abstractly, as of money or information.

3. Send from one person or place to another; "transmit a message".

Date "channel" was first used: sometime in the early 14th century. (references)

Specialty Definition: Channel

Domain	Definition
Computing	Channel n. [IRC] The basic unit of discussion on IRC. Once one joins a channel, everything one types is read by others on that channel. Channels are named with strings that begin with a `#' sign and can have topic descriptions (which are generally irrelevant to the actual subject of discussion). Some notable channels are `#initgame', `#hottub', `callahans', and `#report'. At times of international crisis, `#report' has hundreds of members, some of whom take turns listening to various news services and typing in summaries of the news, or in some cases, giving first-hand accounts of the action (e.g., Scud missile attacks in Tel Aviv during the Gulf War in 1991). Source: Jargon File.
Aerospace	1. Short for frequency channel.2. In computer operations: (a) That portion of a storage medium which is accessible to a given reading station. See track. (b) A path of flow, usually including one or more operations. (references)
Bible	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. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary.
Business	A white. . . irregular streak or area running through several lines of close-set printed matter and caused by a series of wide spaces that appear to form a continuous line - called also channel, gutter , staircase. Source: European Union. (references)
Electrical Engineering	A thin semiconductor layer between the source region and the drain region, the conductance of which is controlled by the gate voltage. Source: European Union. (references)
Federal Student Aid	A functional unit of FSA centered on a segment of customers or partners - Students, Schools and Financial Partners. (references)
Geography	A natural or artificial depression in the land surface which periodically or continuously contains running water. Source: European Union. (references)
Hydrologic	An open conduit either naturally or artificially created which periodically, or continuously contains moving water, or forms a connecting link between two bodies of water. River, creek, run, branch, anabranch, and tributary are some of the terms used to describe natural channels. Natural channels may be single or braided. Canal and floodway are some of the terms used to describe artificial channels. Channel (watercourse). (references)
Nuclear Energy & Physics	A passage through the core of a reactor. Source: European Union. (references)
	The duct through the moderator which is designed to contain one or more fuel assemblies and through which the coolant circulates. Source: European Union. (references)
Post & Telecom	A means of one-way transmission. A defined sequence of periods(e. g. timeslots)in a TDMA system; a defined frequency band in an FDMA system; a defined sequence of periods and frequency bands in a frequency hopped system. Source: European Union. (references)
	A partition of the system RF spectrum allocation with a defined bandwidth and centre frequency. Source: European Union. (references)
Space	In telemetry, one particular measurement to which changing values may be assigned. See Chapter 10. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
CH	English	Channel	Transportation
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Conduit	Noun: conduit, channel, duct, watercourse, race; head race, tail race; abito, aboideau, aboiteau, bito; acequia, acequiador, acequiamadre; arroyo; adit, aqueduct, canal, trough, gutter, pantile; flume, ingate, runner; lock-weir, tedge; vena; dike, main, gully, moat, ditch, drain, sewer, culvert, cloaca, sough, kennel, siphon; piscina; pipe. (tube); funnel; tunnel. (passage); water pipe, waste pipe; emunctory, gully hole, artery, aorta, pore, spout, scupper; adjutage, ajutage; hose; gargoyle; gurgoyle; penstock, weir; flood gate, water gate; sluice, lock, valve; rose; waterworks.
Furrow	Channel, gutter, trench, ditch, dike, dyke; moat, fosse, trough, kennel; ravine; (interval); tajo, thank-ye-ma'am.
Method	Door; gateway; (opening); channel, passage, avenue, means of access, approach, adit; artery, lane, alley, aisle, lobby, corridor; back-door, back-stairs; secret passage; covert way; vennel.
Opening	Way, path; thoroughfare; channel; passage, passageway; tube, pipe; water pipe; air pipe; vessel, tubule, canal, gut, fistula; adjutage, ajutage; ostium; smokestack; chimney, flue, tap, funnel, gully, tunnel, main; mine, pit, adit, shaft; gallery.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Maybe she's using you to channel some dead lesbian lover (Being John Malkovich; writing credit: Charlie Kaufman) One is running the Sony Channel. Another has produced all the Macaulay Culkin action pictures (Swimming With Sharks; writing credit: George Huang) Paul, you have to channel all this nice grief into a murderous rage (Analyze This; writing credit: Kenneth Lonergan; Peter Tolan) Will it appear again this Friday? The entire Channel 6 News Team will be there, except for Bill, the boom mike operator, who's getting fired tomorrow (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) Then channel me a spirit (Warlock; writing credit: David Twohy)
Lyrics	Friday night he pulled a gun to change the channel (Birmingham; performing artist: Amanda Marshall) So let's do it like they do on the Discovery Channel (The Bad Touch; performing artist: Bloodhound Gang)
Clever	You are an engineer if you have memorized the program schedule for the Discovery channel and have seen most of the shows already. (references; author: unknown)
Movie/TV Titles	New York - Twin Parks Project - TV Channel 13 (1974) KMOT Channel 10 News at 10 PM (1970) Channel 2 News (1965) The Channel Swimmer (1962) Blood-Red Water in the Channel (1961)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
References	5th Avenue Channel Corp.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference) Money Channel Plc (The): International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference) Channel Holdings Plc: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference) Clear Channel Communications, Incorporated: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference) Information Technology Channel Overview in Australia: A Strategic Entry Report, 2000 (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	One in four : a year in the life of a Channel Four commissioning editor (reference) Worldwide Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter Forecast and Analysis, 2000-2004 [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference) Channel Islands: Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, Sark (Battleground Europe) (reference) Potassium Channel Modulators, Pharmacological, Molecular & Clinical Aspects (reference) Periplasmic amylase of Escherichia coli : identification of its structural gene, malS, isolation of the protein, and its application for in vivo analysis of the lamB channel (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Channel Compression : A Strategic Analysis (reference) Channel Guide (reference) Channel Islands Family History Society Journal (reference) Home Channel News (reference) Movie Channel Program Guide (reference) (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies	The Jazz Channel Presents B.B. King (BET on Jazz) (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Arrange & Process Basic Channel Tracks (reference) The Essence Collection: Channel Islands (reference) Sci-Fi Channel - Sci-Fi's Greatest Hits, Vol. 4: Defenders Of Justice [SOUNDTRACK] (reference) The Short Wave Channel (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech	Space Channel 5 (reference) Space Channel 5: Ulala's Cosmic Attack (reference) (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods	Motorola 1CSGT One Channel Spirit GT (UHF) (reference) Motorola 2CSGT Two Channel Spirit GT+ (VHF) (reference) (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Full view of the Earth, taken byGOES-8(Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite) on 2 September 1994at 18:00 UT. The red and green channels represent visible data, while theblue channel represents inverted 11 micron infrared data.The north and south poles were were not actually observed by GOES-8. Toproduce this image, poles were taken from a GOES-7 image. Credit: NASA.		San Miguel Island, Channel Islands, California Surveyed by Assistant Stehman Forney, 1871 Topographic Survey T-1242. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.
	East end of Santa Rosa Island, Channel Islands, California Surveyed by Assistant Stehman Forney, 1872-1873 Topographic Survey T-1326. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.		Molokini Island, a crescent atoll, is rim of volcanic crater opening to north Shore of Kahoolawe is visible in upper right. Over Alalakeiki Channel. Credit: America's Coastlines.
	Kahoolawe from the air while flying over Alalakeiki Channel. Kanapou Bay is at center left in photo. Credit: America's Coastlines.		Passing through Peltier Channel. 64 52 S Latitude 63 32 W Longitude. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.
	The SHACKLETON in Meek Channel, next to Argentine Island. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.		Lobster are caught in the channel just beyond the F/V SANDRA&CINDY. Credit: Fisheries.
	Fishing vessels at the Channel Islands Harbor. Credit: Fisheries.		West Fork Blackbird Creek, a tailing facility. The structure to the right is a spillway. Several million cubic yards contaminated tailings are behind the dam. Water is diverted into a concrete channel so it does not come into contact with the tailings. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.


"A window to the channel" by Denis R. Commentary: "A 'gazebo' watching the english channel."	"One way sign" by Adam Kurzok Commentary: "One way sign at the end of a bridge over a channel in amstedam free to use, just click www.creactive.cz."
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

Play	Caption
	Tune in; channel; frequency; dial; .
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Quotation
Hazlitt	Features alone do not run in the blood; vices and virtues, genius and folly, are transmitted through the same sure but unseen channel.
Lord Byron	Smiles form the channel of a future tear.
Oliver Wendell Holmes	Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Author	Date	Quotation
Treaty of Versailles	1919	In the case of boundaries which are defined by a waterway, the terms "course" and "channel" used in the present Treaty signify: in the case of non-navigable rivers, the median line of the waterway or of its principal arm, and, in the case of navigable rivers, the median line of the principal channel of navigation It will rest with the Boundary Commissions provided by the present Treaty to specify in each case whether the frontier line shall follow any changes of the course or channel which may take place or whether it shall be definitely fixed by the position of the course or channel at the time when the present Treaty comes into force. (reference)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	The heart, thrown back upon itself, makes for itself a channel, being unable to expand
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Joyce, James	His confession became a channel for the escape of scrupulous and unrepented imperfections
Gulliver's Travels	Swift, Jonathan	When I advanced to the middle of the channel, they were yet in more pain, because I was under water to my neck
Walden	Thoreau, Henry David	Man flows at once to God when the channel of purity is open
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Calcium channel blocker -- a drug that stops calcium from entering cells. (references)
		The disorder is caused by a genetic mutation involving the chloride channel of the muscles. (references)
		Pharmacologic activation of mutant CFTR protein to stimulate chloride channel activity is being investigated. (references)
Business		So the customer finds different prices at different levels of channel hierarchy. (references)
		ICPs lack the in-house technology to effectively channel information into handsets. (references)
		The FMS program has been the major procurement channel for the Thai military for many years. (references)
Civil Liberties	Czech Republic	The leading television channel, Nova, is privately owned. (references)
	Solomon Islands	A private company transmits one Australian television channel to the country. (references)
	India	Earlier in 2000, CPI(M) officially requested its supporters to boycott the channel. (references)
Economic History	Taiwan	Nearly every type of sales channel exists in Taiwan. (references)
	Portugal	This may be an alternative sales channel for some products. (references)
	Panama	Generally, the marketing channel structure in Panama is simple. (references)
Human Rights	Panama	Prison authorities asked inmates to select a "spokesperson" to channel their frustrations in a peaceful manner. (references)
	Colombia	In addition to providing public defense attorneys in criminal cases, the Human Rights Ombudsman's 34 departmental and regional offices throughout the country provide a legal channel for thousands of complaints and allegations of human rights violations. (references)
	Bosnia and Herzegovina	The ICRC noted that in 1999 it suspended further meetings of the Working Group for Tracing Missing Persons--created by the Dayton Peace Agreement to serve as a channel for passing tracing requests to local authorities--due to lack of cooperation from local authorities. (references)
Political Economy	FINLAND	It has been a member of the IMF since 1948. Finland's development cooperation programs channel assistance via international organizations and bilaterally to a number of African, Asian, and Latin American countries. (references)
Political Rights	China	The committees also carry out political work by serving as a channel of communication between villagers and the Government. (references)
Trade	Bolivia	When this channel is used, capital goods destined for the productive sector enter under temporary import permission for an exhibition period of 90 days, with a bank guarantee note equal to 1% of the CIF value. (references)
Travel	Qatar	Having already completed dredging operations to widen and deepen the port's main channel, the Government is constructing a new container service facility at the Doha port. (references)
	Thailand	Computer Software: Unwrapped computer diskettes and CD-ROMs for use while visiting Thailand are not dutiable . Check the "Nothing to Declare" box on the customs declaration form and submit the form at the Green channel. (references)
	Thailand	Laptop Computers: The Thai Customs Department considers laptop computers as reasonable personal effects and not dutiable, restricted or prohibited goods . If travelers carry laptop computers for use while visiting Thailand, they should check the "Nothing to Declare" box on the customs declaration form and submit the form at the Green channel . However, each traveler should carry only one laptop at a time and should be prepared to prove at a Customs random inspection that the computer is a personal belonging or for use while doing business in Thailand, and not for re-sale. (references)
Worker Rights	Syria	The GFTU is an information channel between political decisionmakers and workers. (references)
	China	Tibet Autonomous Regional Television, a Tibetan-language satellite television channel, broadcasts in Tibetan for 12 hours each day. (references)
	Brazil	Although the law makes no provision for central labor organizations that include multiple categories of workers, there are four major centrals: the Workers' Unitary Central (CUT), the Forca Sindical ("Union Force"--FS), the Workers' General Confederation (CGT), and the Social Democratic Union (SDS). Labor centrals channel much of the political activity of the labor movement, organize strikes involving multiple categories, and represent workers in governmental and tripartite councils. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	INCUBUS, n. One of a race of highly improper demons who, though probably not wholly extinct, may be said to have seen their best nights. For a complete account of incubi and succubi, including incubae and succubae, see the Liber Demonorum of Protassus (Paris, 1328), which contains much curious information that would be out of place in a dictionary intended as a text-book for the public schools. Victor Hugo relates that in the Channel Islands Satan himself -- tempted more than elsewhere by the beauty of the women, doubtless -- sometimes plays at incubus, greatly to the inconvenience and alarm of the good dames who wish to be loyal to their marriage vows, generally speaking. A certain lady applied to the parish priest to learn how they might, in the dark, distinguish the hardy intruder from their husbands. The holy man said they must feel his brown for horns; but Hugo is ungallant enough to hint a doubt of the efficacy of the test.
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Phrase(s)
Gotham Chopra	Channel One is great. I mean Channel One, I think we practice a unique style of journalism, and for the journalist it's great because it makes you feel like Indiana Jones, because the stories are always centered around, you know, the reporter.
Harry Belafonte	On another channel, getting ready to launch a work that I had just done. I was on NBC and just about to go down to the World Trade Center for breakfast. Had the incident happened just an hour later, I might very well have been one of its victims.
Rush Limbaugh	Democrats are seriously thinking of buying their own network and think tanks to combat Fox News Channel and conservatives.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
James Monroe	1817-1825	A great portion of the produce of the very fertile country through which it would pass would find a market through that channel.
Jimmy Carter	1977-1981	The Administration has also recommended that the Congress enact legislation to give the President generic authority to recommend appropriations for channel dredging activities.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	68.38%	2,711	3,388
Noun (proper)	27.44%	1,088	6,934
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	3.88%	154	25,326
Lexical Verb (base form)	0.3%	12	101,599
Total	100.00%	3,965	N/A

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Channel	Last name	1,000	14,378
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

Country	Name	Country	Name
United Kingdom	Channel Health P.L.C.	USA	5th Avenue Channel Corp.
	(more examples...)

Expressions using "channel": 30 channel mux ♦ abandoned channel ♦ across the channel ♦ adjacent channel ♦ adjacent channel interference ♦ aggregated radio channel ♦ air channel ♦ allocated transmit channel ♦ appended control channel ♦ auxiliary information channel ♦ bearer channel ♦ blue channel cat ♦ blue channel catfish ♦ Bristol Channel ♦ buried channel ♦ cable channel ♦ Calcium Channel Agonists ♦ Calcium channel blocker ♦ Calcium Channel Blockers ♦ channel address word ♦ channel alignment ♦ Channel bar ♦ channel bass ♦ channel bed ♦ Channel bill ♦ channel bottom ♦ channel capacity ♦ channel cat ♦ channel catfish ♦ channel catfish virus disease ♦ channel coordination extension ♦ channel degrees of freedom ♦ channel displacement ♦ channel geometry ♦ Channel goose ♦ channel hopping ♦ Channel iron ♦ Channel Islands ♦ channel Islands Beach ♦ channel Islands National Park ♦ channel Lake ♦ channel light ♦ channel loading ♦ channel off ♦ channel op ♦ channel orientation ♦ channel out ♦ channel planform ♦ channel process ♦ channel roughness ♦ channel selected basic length ♦ channel selector ♦ channel separation ♦ channel sequence number ♦ channel service unit ♦ channel service unit/data service unit ♦ channel signaling unit ♦ channel signalling unit ♦ channel spacing ♦ channel switch ♦ channel through the ice ♦ channel Tunnel ♦ Clear Channel ♦ common access channel ♦ communication channel ♦ Covert Channel ♦ data channel ♦ data transmission channel ♦ dedicated channel ♦ distribution channel ♦ diversion channel ♦ double channel simplex ♦ drainage channel ♦ dredge a channel ♦ Eaves channel ♦ effective adjacent channel rejection ♦ english channel ♦ enter the mouth of a channel ♦ fast associated control channel ♦ fast information channel ♦ fibre Channel ♦ floated channel ♦ frequency channel ♦ fuel channel ♦ Gate channel ♦ innermost channel separation ♦ instrument channel ♦ Ion Channel Gating ♦ irradiation channel ♦ irrigation channel ♦ leased channel port ♦ link Access Procedure on the D channel ♦ link access protocol on the D channel ♦ loading factor of channel ♦ main audio channel ♦ main service channel ♦ main service channel data group ♦ marked idle channel ♦ marketing channel ♦ meridional section through a channel ♦ meteorological operational channel. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "channel": channel-associated, channel-attach, channel-attached, channel-based, channel-busy, channel-by-channel, channel-forming, channel-free, channel-hop, channel-hoppers, channel-hopping, channel-ready, channel-receiver, channel-surf, channel-switch, channel-to-channel.
	Ending with "channel": back-channel, four-channel, mid-channel, split-channel, two-channel.
	Containing "channel": calcium-channel blocker, dual-channel system, Micro-channel-based, multi-channel circuit, Multi-channel Memorandum Distribution Facility, multi-channel operation.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
weather channel	69,375	channel 7	792
disney channel	28,554	channel 4 big brother	715
channel.com disney	14,985	channel hallmark	676
discovery channel	7,942	4 channel news	661
history channel	4,515	weather channel com	644
center channel	4,195	7 channel news	642
channel com disney	4,120	scifi channel	607
golf channel	3,183	boston channel	503
travel channel	3,092	12 channel news	487
wedding channel	2,655	9 channel news	470
the learning channel	2,338	asia.com channel disney	467
channel	2,039	8 channel news	459
channel 4	1,716	2 channel news	456
speed channel	1,644	fox news channel	453
food channel	1,415	channel 5	430
clear channel	1,222	channel 13	430
shopping channel	1,178	the weather channel.com	406
sci fi channel	1,115	sundance channel	384
5 channel news	1,080	channel 3000	363
channel island	948	e channel	342
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "channel"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaans		kanaal (canal), buis (barrel, pipe, tube). (various references)

Albanian		kanal (aqueduct, canal, chamfer, conduit, cut, ditch, drain, duct, excavation, flute, Fosse, gully, gut, gutter, Lade, program, programme, rabbet, runway, sewer, trench, tube, watercourse). (various references)

Arabic		‏وسيلة إتصال, ‏أخدود (flute, fluting, furrow, groove, pothole, rut), ‏أعمق نقطة في نهر, ‏أنبوب (conduit, duct, hosepipe, igniter, pipe, poop, streamer, tube, tubing, tunnel), ‏خدد (flute, furrow, groove, gully, rut, spline), ‏طريقة (art, attitude, fashion, game, method, mode, procedure, process, sort, style, styling, system, tactic, wise), ‏شق على شكل قناة, ‏حفر قناة, قناة (canal), ‏قضيب معدني (bar), ‏قناة (aqueduct, canal, chase, conduit, cut, ditch, duct, gutter, passage, path, pipe, rut, sluiceway, spile, trough, trunk, tube, water course, waterway), ‏قناة موصلة بين بحرين, ‏قنال في التلفزيون, ‏مجرى نهر (path), ‏مسار (course, path, route, run, track, trajectory), ‏ترعة (conduit, sluiceway). (various references)

Bulgarian		тръба (aqueduct, passage, pipe, spout, trumpet, tube), корито на река (riverbed, runway), канелюра (flute), канал (aqueduct, canal, cut, ditch, duct, gutter, mortise, passage, port, rabbet, race, scour, sewer, trench, vas, vessel), връзка (alliance, association, bond, bunch, cement, communication, concatenation, connection, connexion, contact, copula, cord, coupler, intercommunication, lace, leverage, liaison, ligament, ligature, link, nexus, noose, overlay, point, reference, regard, relation, relationship, relevance, relevancy, string, tie, touch), отправям (direct, dispatch, extend, forward, put up, send, transmit, turn), олук (gully, gutter), пускам по канал, прокарвам канал през, пролив (narrow), правя улей. (various references)

Catalan		canal (canal). (various references)

Chinese		通道 (passage, thoroughfare), 途徑 (way), 頻道 (frequency), 海峽 (straight, straits), 海峡 (Channeling, Channelling, strait, straits). (various references)

Czech		kanál (canal, ditch, drain, gutter, sink, sluice way, station). (various references)

Danish		kanal (canal), rør (barrel, pipe, tube). (various references)

Dutch		kanaal (barrel, canal, pipe, strait, tube), vaart (canal, speed), gracht (canal, ditch, hole, pit), buis (barrel, jacket, pipe, tube). (various references)

Esperanto		tubo (barrel, pipe, tube), kanalo (canal). (various references)

Faeroese		slanga (barrel, pipe, serpent, snake, tube), rør (barrel, pipe, tube). (various references)

Farsi		مجرا (Conduit, Cullis, Duct, Gullet, Gully, Runway, Strand, Tube, Vessel), هرگونه نقل وانتقال چیزیااندیشه , ترعه , خطمشی (Policy), شیاردارکردن (Groove, Gutter, Rib, Ridge, Rut), دریا (Flood, Main, Mare, Mere, Sea). (various references)

Finnish		kanava (canal, meatus), kouru (gutter, spout). (various references)

French		canal (chute), tuyau, tube, rigole (chute), chenal (river channel, stream channel). (various references)

Frisian		piip (barrel, pipe, tube), kanaal (canal), djip (canal, deep, profound), buis (barrel, pipe, tube). (various references)

German		kanal (canal, ditch, drain, duct, sewer, ship canal), rinne (chute, furrow, gap, groove, gully, gutter, sluice). (various references)

Greek		κανάλι (canal), διοχετεύω (canalize, drain, drain off, transmit). (various references)

Hawaiian		kanal (canal). (various references)

Hebrew		לתעל (canalize), תלמי (eaves, gutter), תעלה (aqueduct, canal, conduit, culvert, ditch, gutter, sewer, water course), ערוץ (bus, cleft, ditch, gorge, gulch, gully, ravine), אפיק (river bed, route, stream, trough), צנור (canal, ditch, duct, hose, jet, pipe, spout, tube). (various references)

Hungarian		csatorna (aqueduct, canal, conduit, course, delf, delft, ditch, drain, duct, flume, furrow, gutter, tubule, watercourse). (various references)

Indonesian		saluran (canal, dike, duct, shoot), mengalirkan (aim, drain, shed, siphon, sluice), kanal (canal), galur (furrow, groove), bandaran (draining), alur (furrow, gully, plot, slot). (various references)

Irish		canÚil (canal). (various references)

Italian		condotto (barrel, conducted, conduit, duct, gully, pipe, piped, shaft, tube), canale (canal, cut, ditch, drain, duct, gully, program, programme, trough), alveo (bed, riverbed, watercourse). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		海峡. (various references)

Japanese Katakana		すいろ (aqueduct, waterway), チャネル , きょく (affair, big frame, climax, culmination, department, extreme, extremity, height, nadir, piece of music, pole, situation, tune, zenith), せと (strait), かいきょう (homesickness, Islam, longing for home, nostalgia), かいもん (opening gate, strait), けいろ (course, disposition, hair color, path, process, route), みぞがたこう, ちゅうかいぶつ (intermediary, medium). (various references)

Korean		수로 (channels, Waterway). (various references)

Malay		terusan (canal). (various references)

Manx		piob (bagpipe, bagpipes, pipe, smoking pipe), keyllys (firth, narrows, pass, sound, strait), giarrey clasheen, feddan (aqueduct, barrel, chanter, fife, flageolet, flute, pipe, sleeve, sleeving, tube, tubing, vessel, whistle), clasheen, clash (cleft, gorge, groove, hollow, open furrow, race, rubbish tip, trench, vale), bolagh, barrey (bar, barrow, boat passage, bolt), ammyr (bed, bed river, canal, trough). (various references)

Norwegian		rør (barrel, pipe, tube), kanal (canal). (various references)

Papiamen		pipa (barrel, pipe, tube), kanal (canal). (various references)

Pig Latin		annelchay.(various references)

Portuguese		canal (canal, conduit, deferent, dike, dyke, fosse, gat, gate, gullet, hollow, isthmus, meatus, outlet, runway, tube, watercourse, water-way). (various references)

Romanian		canal (canal, conduit, ditch, duct, flume, Fosse, gut, gutter, hose, jet, sewer, sound, the airways, trough). (various references)

Russian		канал (aqueduct, canal, conduit, duct, pass, tract, watercourse). (various references)

Scottish		amar (mill-lade, trough). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		prolaz (aisle, breach, gangway, gateway, pass, passage, thoroughfare, transit), plovni put, kanalisati, kanal (canal). (various references)

Spanish		canal (canal, dike, duct, dyke, gutter, side, sluice, track, trough, watercourse), cauce (bed, nullah, riverbed, Wadi, watercourse). (various references)

Sranan		kanari (canal, canary). (various references)

Swahili		njia ya maji (canal). (various references)

Swedish		kanal (canal, conduit, duct, gully, passage, track), ränna (chute, furrow, groove, gully, gutter, run, shoot, sluice, thrust). (various references)

Turkish		kanal (canal, chamfer, chute, conduit, culvert, dike, drain, duct, flume, gullet, gully, meatus, pass, passage, station, vessel). (various references)

Ukrainian		канал (aqueduct, artery, canal, deferent, ditch, feeder, sluice, watercourse), перерізувати каналами, проводити канал (canal), протока, пускати по каналу, борознити (furrow, plough, plow), ла-манш, жолоб (apron, canal, chamfer, chute, flume, fuller, gutter, outfall, penstock, rut), джерело (authorship, beginning, cradle, derivation, fount, fountain-head, headspring, lymph, origin, parent, paternity, principle, progenitor, quarry, radix, source, spring, well, wellspring, whence), виїмка (chamfer, coulisse, gouge, indent, notch, notching), стічна канава (dike, stank), шлях (doorway, passage, path, road, way), фарватер (clearway, fairway, pass, seaway, waterway), рити канаву (ditch), робити виїмки (notch), русло (bed, watercourse), річище (runway), спрямовувати в русло, стік (dike, drainage, dyke, effluent, outlet), засіб (agency, instrumentality, means, recipe, route, way). (various references)

Vietnamese		rãnh biển Măng sơ, lạch (bank, run), lòng suối kênh mương, eo biển lòng sông, ý nghĩ (idea, mind, thinking). (various references)

Welsh		cwter (gutter), cwndid (carol, conduit, escort, safe conduct, song), sianel. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Sumerian	3100 BCE-2500 BCE	ku�, �ita. (various references)
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	canalis. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Language	Isaiah Chapter 27, Verse 12
Cebuano	Ug mahitabo niadtong adlawa, nga si Jehova modughit sa iyang bunga gikan sa pagbaha sa Suba ngadto sa sapa sa Egipto; ug kamo pagatapukon ang usa ug ang usa, Oh kamo nga mga anak sa Israel.
Croatian	Jahve æe u dan onaj klasje vrijeæi od Eufrata do Potoka egipatskog, i bit æete pobrani jedan po jedan, djeco Izraelova.
Danish	På hin Dag slår HERREN Frugten ned fra Flodens Strøm til Ægyptens Bæk, og I skal opsankes een for een, Israels Børn.
Dutch	En het zal te dien dage geschieden, dat de HEERE dorsen zal, van den stroom der rivier af tot aan de rivier van Egypte; doch gijlieden zult opgelezen worden, een bij een, o gij kinderen Israels!
Finnish	Sinä päivänä Herra karistaa hedelmät maahan, Eufrat-virrasta aina Egyptin puroon asti, ja teidät, te israelilaiset, poimitaan talteen yksitellen.
French	En ce temps-là, L`Éternel secouera des fruits, Depuis le cours du fleuve jusqu`au torrent d`Égypte; Et vous serez ramassés un à un, enfants d`Israël!
German	Zu der Zeit wird der HERR worfeln von dem Ufer des Stromes bis an den Bach Ägyptens; und ihr, Kinder Israel, werdet versammelt werden, einer nach dem andern.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Pada waktu itu TUHAN akan mengumpulkan bangsa-Nya satu demi satu dari Sungai Efrat sampai ke perbatasan Mesir. Ia akan memisahkan mereka seperti orang memisahkan butir gandum dari sekamnya.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Maka akan jadi pada hari itu bahwa Tuhan juga akan mengirik-irik dari pada aliran sungai besar datang ke sungai Mesir, tetapi kamu sekalian akan dipungut, seorang demi seorang, hai bani Israel!
Italian	In quel giorno, dal corso dell'Eufrate al torrente d'Egitto, il Signore batterà le spighe e voi sarete raccolti uno a uno, Israeliti.
Maori	I taua ra ka taia nga hua e Ihowa i te waipuke o te awa, a tae noa ki te awa o Ihipa, a ka kohikohia takitahitia koutou, e nga tama a Iharaira.
Norwegian	Og det skal skje på den tid at Herren skal slå ned frukter like fra Storelven* til Egyptens bekk, og I, Israels barn, I skal sankes op en for en. # <* d.e. Eufrat.>
Rumanian	Kn vremea aceea, Domnul va scutura roade dela cursul Rkulul pknq la pkrkul Egiptului; iar voi veyi fi strknwi unul ckte unul, copii ai lui Israel!
Spanish	Pero sucederá en aquel día que Jehovah golpeará con vara, desde la corriente del Río hasta el arroyo de Egipto. Y vosotros, oh hijos de Israel, seréis recogidos uno por uno.
Swedish	Och det skall ske på den tiden att HERREN anställer en inbärgning, från den strida floden intill Egyptens bäck; och I skolen varda insamlade, en och en, I Israels barn.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "channel": channeled, channeler, channelers, channeling, channelization, channelizations, channelize, channelized, channelizes, channelizing, channelled, channelling, channels. (additional references)
	Words ending with "channel": interchannel, mischannel, multichannel, rechannel. (additional references)
	Words containing "channel": mischanneled, mischanneling, mischannelled, mischannelling, mischannels, multichannels, rechanneled, rechanneling, rechannelled, rechannelling, rechannels, unchanneled. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Channel" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: chandel, chane, chanel, Chanine, channa, Channer, chantel, Chenal, chenel, Chenil, Chennault, Cheynell, Chinela, Chonnam, chunnel, Clannel, cyanol, Hahnel, hanel, hanne, Hannell, Khanal, Khanel. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "channel" (pronounced kha"nul)
4	-a" n u l	annal, annul, empanel, flannel, impanel, panel.
3	-n u l	infernal, abdominal, aberrational, aboriginal, additional, adrenal, anal, Arsenal, atonal, attitudinal, autumnal, binational, biphenyl, cantonal, Cardinal, carnal, coeducational, collisional, Colonel, communal, compositional, computational, concessional, conditional, confessional, conformational, confrontational, congregational, congressional, connotational, constitutional, conventional, conversational, cornel, correctional, criminal, Darnel, delusional, denominational, departmental, depositional, devotional, diagonal, dimensional, directional, diurnal, divisional, doctrinal, duodenal, dysfunctional, educational, emotional, erosional, eternal, exceptional, external, factional, faunal, fennel, fictional, final, fluxional, foundational, fractional, fraternal, functional, funnel, gastrointestinal, generational, gravitational, hexagonal, hormonal, Hymnal, impersonal, improvisational, spinal, subliminal, superregional, supranational, terminal, informational, inspirational, institutional, instructional, intentional, intergenerational, internal, international, interpersonal, intestinal, investigational, Invitational, irrational, journal, jurisdictional, juvenile, kennel, kernel, latitudinal, longitudinal, luminal, marginal, maternal, medicinal, monoclonal, monsoonal, morainal, motivational, multinational, national, navigational, nocturnal, nominal, noncriminal, nonprofessional, nontraditional, nutritional, obsessional, occasional, occupational, octagonal, operational, optional, organizational, original, paternal, penal, personal, phenomenal, polygonal, polyvinyl, processional, professional, promotional, proportional, provisional, rational, recreational, regional, relational, renal, representational, retinal, rotational, seasonal, sectional, semifinal, seminal, sensational, sentinel, shrapnel, signal, situational, tonal, traditional, transformational, transitional, transnational, tribunal, tunnel, unconditional, unconstitutional, unconventional, unemotional, unintentional, unprofessional, untraditional, vaginal, venal, vernal, Vinal, vinyl, virginal, vocational.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-h-l-n-n"
	-1 letter: cannel.
	-2 letters: chela, clean, hance, henna, lance, leach, nance.
	-3 letters: ache, acne, alec, cane, clan, each, elan, haen, hale, heal, lace, lane, lean, lech.
	-4 letters: ace, ale, ane, can, cel, hae, hen, lac, lea, nae, nah, nan.
	-5 letters: ae, ah, al, an, eh, el, en, ha, he, la, na, ne.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-e-h-l-n-n"
	+1 letter: channels.
	+2 letters: benchland, channeled, channeler, chelonian, rechannel.
	+3 letters: benchlands, branchline, changeling, channelers, channeling, channelize, channelled, chelonians, encephalon, manchineel, mischannel, nonethical, rechannels.
	+4 letters: anencephaly, branchlines, challenging, chandelling, changelings, channelized, channelizes, channelling, cleanhanded, manchineels, mischannels, nonathletic, nonchalance, nonchemical, rechanneled, relaunching, trenchantly, unchanneled, untechnical.
	+5 letters: anencephalic, anthelmintic, channelizing, clannishness, diencephalon, enchantingly, endochondral, hallucinogen, interchannel, mischanneled, multichannel, nonchalances, nonchemicals, noncrushable, nonspherical, nontechnical, rechanneling, rechannelled, unchallenged, unchangeable, unchangeably, unquenchable.
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Channel

Definition: Channel

Channel

Noun

Verb

Specialty Definition: Channel

Specialty Definition: Channel

English Channel

Abbreviations & Acronyms: Channel

Synonyms: Channel

Synonyms within Context: Channel

Conduit

Furrow

Method

Opening

Crosswords: Channel

Modern Usage: Channel

Screenplays

Lyrics

Clever

Movie/TV Titles

Commercial Usage: Channel

References

Books

Periodicals

Theater & Movies

Music

High Tech

Consumer Goods

Image Slideshow: Channel

Photos:Channel

Illustrations:Channel

Computer Images:Channel

Photo Album: Channel

Digital Photo Gallery: Channel

Sounds Captioned with "Channel".

Familiar Quotations: Channel

Hazlitt

Lord Byron

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Historic Usage: Channel

Treaty of Versailles

Use in Literature: Channel

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

Gulliver's Travels

Swift, Jonathan

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

Non-Fiction Usage: Channel

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

Spoken Usage: Channel

Gotham Chopra

Harry Belafonte

Rush Limbaugh

Speeches: Channel

James Monroe

Jimmy Carter

Usage Frequency: Channel

Name Usage Frequency: Channel

Usage in Company Names: Channel

Channel Health P.L.C.

5th Avenue Channel Corp.

Expressions: Channel

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Channel

Photos:
Channel

Illustrations:
Channel

Computer Images:
Channel