Word Finder - channel

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The physical confine of a river or slough, consisting of a bed and banks.

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

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The natural or man-made deeper course through a reef, bar, bay, or any shallow body of water.

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A channel was dredged to allow ocean-going vessels to reach the city.

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The navigable part of a river.

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We were careful to keep our boat in the channel.

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A narrow body of water between two land masses.

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The English Channel lies between France and England.

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

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The news was conveyed to us by different channels.

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

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A connection between initiating and terminating nodes of a circuit.

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

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The narrow conducting portion of a MOSFET transistor.

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(communication) The part that connects a data source to a data sink.

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A channel stretches between them.

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(communication) A path for conveying electrical or electromagnetic signals, usually distinguished from other parallel paths.

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We are using one of the 24 channels.

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(communication) A single path provided by a transmission medium via physical separation, such as by multipair cable.

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The channel is created by bonding the signals from these four pairs.

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(communication) A single path provided by a transmission medium via spectral or protocol separation, such as by frequency or time-division multiplexing.

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Their call is being carried on channel 6 of the T-1 line.

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A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies, usually in conjunction with a predetermined letter, number, or codeword, and allocated by international agreement.

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KNDD is the channel at 107.7 MHz in Seattle.

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

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NBC is on channel 11 in San Jose.

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(storage) The portion of a storage medium, such as a track or a band, that is accessible to a given reading or writing station or head.

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This chip in this disk drive is the channel device.

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(technic) The way in a turbine pump where the pressure is built up.

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The liquid is pressurized in the lateral channel.

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A distribution channel

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A particular area for conversations on an IRC network, analogous to a chat room and often dedicated to a specific topic.

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An obsolete means of delivering up-to-date Internet content.

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A psychic or medium who temporarily takes on the personality of somebody else.

The correct channel has been programmed into it.

The loose soil on the banks of the river is every year carried away in great masses, and the channel has so widened as to render the recurrence of an overflow unlikely.

You can channel it.

Its waters have been in great part carried off by an artificial channel, and more than half its surface laid bare.

The radio channel played nonsensical songs from the 60's in a barely successful mission to lift her spirits.

Bianca needed more magic to do it, and I can channel anything.

She can absorb and channel the gifts of others.

With the old man's help, she caught the last ferry across the channel just before sunset.

Using magic in the mortal world was like trying to swim a channel with arms tied.

Man flows at once to God when the channel of purity is open.

It is pleasant to think that there is foundation for the familiar story of Sir Francis Drake playing bowls on Plymouth Hoe as the Armada was beating up Channel, and finishing his game before tackling the Spaniards.

The name is often in popular literature written Cambalu, and is by Longfellow accented in verse Cambeilic. But this spelling originates in an accidental error in Ramusio's Italian version, which was the chief channel through which Marco Polo's book was popularly known.

The Orne, which rises in the hills of Normandy and falls into the Channel below Caen, is of considerably less importance.

Pytheas, whose own narrative is not preserved, coasted the Bay of Biscay, sailed up the English Channel and followed the coast of Britain to its most northerly point.

Here the channel is about IIoo ft.

But his ship was boarded in the Channel and the earl, condemned by the StarChamber to a heavy fine and to imprisonment during the queen's pleasure, suffered a harsh captivity in the Tower.

Behind it rise the terraces of a more modern town, commanding a fine view across the Channel.

The extensive Russian trade is now largely conducted over the Siberian railroad, and this, next to the transit to London, represents the largest volume of tea traffic passing in one channel.

But the flood of anecdote and criticism overflowed the narrow channel.

They have shown that columns of water of very small diameter can so resist tensile strain that they can be lifted bodily instead of flowing along the channel, They suggest that the forces causing the movement are complex, and draw particular attention to the pull upwards in consequence of disturbances in the leaves.

More mobile and more searching than ice or rock rubbish, the trickling drops are guided by the deepest lines of the hillside in their incipient flow, and as these lines converge, the stream, gaining strength, proceeds in River its torrential course to carve its channel deeper and en- t trench itself in permanent occupation.

Thus the stream bed, from which at first the water might be blown away into a new channel by a gale of wind, ultimately grows to be the strongest line of the landscape.

Occidental geographers, however, have followed the Greek use, and so to-day we call the river of Babylon or Nahr Sura the Euphrates and the older westerly channel the Hindieh canal.

But it frequently happens that the dam at the head of the Hindieh is carried away, and, a free channel being thus opened for the waters of the river to the westward, the Hillah bed shoals to 2 or 3 ft., or even dries up altogether, while the country to the west of the river is turned into lakes and swamps.

Along this part of its course the river is apt to be choked with reeds and, except where bordered by lines of palm trees, the channel loses itself in lakes and swamps.

Willcocks discovered (1909) that from Suk-eshSheiukh the Euphrates had formed a new channel through the marshes.

The gifts of each were adopted and bore fruit on both sides of the Channel.

Table XIII., in which the totals for the United Kingdom include those for the Channel Islands and Isle of Man, illustrates the preponderance of the sheep-breeding industry in the drier climate of Great Britain, and of the cattle-breeding industry in the more humid atmosphere of Ireland.

This stream, which has hitherto been regarded as the eastern branch of the Ilissus rising at Kaesariane, has been identified by Dorpfeld with a brook descending from the south slope of Lycabettus and conducted in an artificial channel to the north-western end of the city, where it made its exit through the walls, eventually joining the Ilissus.

The channel was open in Greek times, but was afterwards covered by Roman arches; it appears to have served as the main drain of the city.

The port consists of an entrance channel nearly 400 yds.

In connexion with the last, he made a cruise in the Channel fleet, on board the "Victory," as a volunteer under the command of Admiral Sir Charles Hardy.

A short channel connects lake Rotorua with lake Rotoiti to the N.E.

Channel, and intended to introduce similar contours or isohypses (40s, height) for a representation of the land.

This was within historic times a great inlet of the English Channel, and Winchelsea was a famous seaport until the 15th century.

The Mucury and Doce also rise in Minas Geraes, and are much broken in their descent to the lower plains, the former having a navigable channel of 98 m.

In 1512 (or 1513) Juan Ponce de Leon made the first recorded exploration of the coast of Florida and the Bahama Channel.

The harbour entrance is somewhat obstructed by sand bars, so that extensive government work has been necessary to open and maintain a channel for large draft ocean vessels.

This sand has not been brought by the Hudson itself, for that river drops most of its sediment load far up stream, in its long tidal channel.

Westward from Clyde the new channel, like the old but larger, will pass through Rochester and Lockport to the Niagara river at Tonawanda.

The town owed its origin and growth to its position on the shores of the Bristol Channel, and its good harbour developed an oversea trade with Bristol, South Wales and the Irish ports.

The Jews, less bitterly opposed to Mahommedanism than the Christians were, caught fire more rapidly, and in some cases served as an intermediate link or channel of communication.

Operations for removing the obstacles in the channel and for deepening and widening it were begun as long ago as 1838.

But even this sheet of water is an inland sea, the only outlet of which, the Bosphorus, is in foreign hands, while the Caspian, an immense shallow lake, mostly bordered by deserts, possesses more importance as a link between Russia and her Asiatic settlements than as a channel for intercourse with other countries.

The Mezen enters the Bay of Mezen; it is navigable for 450 m., and is the channel of a considerable export of timber.

The Volkhov, discharging into Lake Ladoga, and forming part of the Vyshniy-Volochok system of canals, is an important channel for navigation; it flows from Lake Ilmen, which receives the Msta, connected with the Volga, and the Lovat.

In the middle navigable part of its course, from Dorogobuzh to Ekaterinoslav, it is an active channel for traffic. It receives.

The spring tides rise upwards of 30 ft., and in a channel usually so shallow form a serious danger to shipping.

Lastly it should be recollected that the entire body of the fragments of tradition and literature belonging to northern Israel has come down to us through the channel of Judaean recensions.

Buffalo-fish, paddle-fish, cat-fish, drum, crappie, black bass, rock bass, German carp, sturgeon, pike, perch, eels, suckers and shrimp inhabit the waters of the Mississippi and its tributaries, and oysters, shrimp, trout, Spanish mackerel, channel bass, black bass, sheepshead, mullet, croakers, pompano, pin-fish, blue-fish, flounders, crabs and terrapin are obtained from the Mississippi Sound and the rivers flowing into it.