Word Finder - channels

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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.

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To make or cut a channel or groove in.

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To direct or guide along a desired course.

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We will channel the traffic to the left with these cones.

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(of a spirit, as of a dead person) To serve as a medium for.

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She was channeling the spirit of her late husband, Seth.

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To follow as a model, especially in a performance.

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He was trying to channel President Reagan, but the audience wasn't buying it.

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The wale of a sailing ship which projects beyond the gunwale and to which the shrouds attach via the chains. One of the 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.

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Formal lines of command and procedure.

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I'd love to be able to help you, but you'll have put that request through channels.

Though tortuous of access, the channels afford a clear passage of 27-35 ft.

The waterways of Cochin-China communicate by means of natural or artificial channels (arroyos), facilitating transport and aiding in the uniform distribution of the inundation to which the country owes its fertility.

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.

They were thick and gruesome, creating ridges and channels in his face.

By a system of carefully laid channels the water flows gently over the land, and deposits its warp with an even level surface.

The channels between the islands do not exceed 2 meters.

The most westerly is the Hugli, which receives the waters of a number of distributary channels that start from the parent Ganges above Murshidabad.

Bricks were also employed in later times; their form is peculiar to this place, each having two rectangular channels on one side, and being about 15 in.

The flood-water is controlled by a system of dams and channels constructed so as to utilize every drop, and the extent of cultivation is limited more by the supply of water available than by the amount of suitable soil.

Deep valleys winding through the barren foothills lead gradually up to the higher mountains, and as the track ascends the scenery and vegetation change their character; the trees which line the banks of the wadi are overgrown with creepers, and the running stream is dammed at frequent intervals, and led off in artificial channels to irrigate the fields on either side; the steeper parts of the road are paved with large stones, substantially built villages, with their masonry towers or da y s, crowning every height, replace the collection of *mud walls and brushwood huts of the low country; while tier above tier, terraced fields cover the hill slopes and attest the industry of the inhabitants and the fertility of their mountains.

Akhdar is wonderful and is in striking contrast to the barrenness of so much of the coast; water issues in perennial springs from many rocky clefts, and is carefully husbanded by the ingenuity of the people; underground channels, known here as faluj, precisely similar to the kanat or karez of Persia and Afghanistan, are also largely used.

Horizontal channels were cut on opposite walls, through which the carbon poles or electrodes were passed into the upper part of the cavity.

The most important means of communication in the republic is that of its river system, comprising, as it does, the navigable channels of the Maranon, or upper Amazon, and its tributaries.

There is no reason to impugn the soundness of this substantially consentient testimony to the pronunciation Yahweh or Jahveh, coming as it does through several independent channels.

He is at once the gigantic eater of Turpin, the huge warrior eight feet high, who could lift the armed knight standing on his open hand to a level with his head, the crusading conqueror of Jerusalem in days before the crusades, and yet with all this the temperate drinker and admirer of St Augustine, as his character had filtered down through various channels from the historical pages of Einhard.

Lobau, one of the numerous islands which divide the river into minor channels, was selected as the point of crossing, careful preparations were made, and on the night of the 19th-20th of May the French bridged all the channels from the right bank to Lobau and occupied the island.

Both places lay close to the Danube and could not therefore be turned; Aspern, indeed, is actually on the bank of one of the river channels.

Before them all was a tribe of immigrants who appear to have crossed from north eastern Asia at an epoch when the sea had not yet dug broad channels between the continent and the adjacent islands.

The difference between this process and ordinary inlaying is that for sumi-zogan the design to be inlaid is fully chiselled out of an independent block of metal with sides sloping so as to be broader at the base than at the top. The object which is to receive the decoration is then channelled in dimensions corresponding to those of the design block, and the latter having been fixed in the channels, the surface is ground and polished until an intimate union is obtained between the inlaid design and the metal forming its field.

This estuary, however, is only the largest and most easterly of a great number of mouths or channels.

But towards its southern base, resting on the sea, the country sinks into a series of great swamps, intercepted by a network of innumerable channels.

For more than a century after the death of Augustus Roman literature continues to flow in the old channels.

After chewing the sacred bay and drinking of the spring Cassotis, which was conducted into the temple by artificial channels, she took her seat on the sacred tripod in the inner shrine.

During floods they pour over their banks upon the surrounding valleys, by a thousand channels which interlace and establish communication between the main streams. After numerous bifurcations they find their way into the sea by three principal mouths.

It consists of an anchorage, land-locked by islands or sand-banks, and with two fair channels navigable towards the land.

Near the middle of the long side is an opening; and from it a flight of seven steps led down to a trapezoidal chamber, on the back wall of which are two lions' heads of bronze, through which water, conducted in long semi-cylindrical channels of bronze, from behind the wall, poured out into pitchers for which holes are cut in the floor.

Channels for the overflow were cut along the back and sides of the chamber.

There are good anchorages in the channels between Gozo and Comino, and between Comino and Malta.

The various channels of its delta are also obstructed with sand-banks in the dry season.

The ridge across Denmark Strait west of Iceland nowhere exceeds 300 fathoms in depth, so that the deeper water of the North Polar Basin is effectively separated from that of the Atlantic. A third small basin occupies Baffin Bay and contains a maximum depth of 1050 fathoms. Depths of from loo to 300 fathoms are not uncommon amongst the channels of the Arctic Archipelago north of North America, and Bering Strait, through which the surface water of the Arctic Sea meets that of the Pacific, is only 28 fathoms deep.

The Central American Sea communicates with the Atlantic through the channels between the Antilles, none of which is quite 1000 fathoms deep, and it sinks to a depth of 2843 fathoms in the Caribbean Basin, 3428 fathoms in the Cayman Trench and 2080 fathoms in the Gulf of Mexico.

The China Sea on the north has a maximum depth of 2715 fathoms off the Philippines, the Sulu Basin reaches 2550 fathoms, and the Celebes Basin 2795 fathoms. Some of the channels between the islands are of very great depth, Macassar Strait exceeding 1000 fathoms, the Molucca Passage exceeding 2000 fathoms, and the Halmahera Trough sinking as deep as 2575 fathoms. The deepest of all is the Banda Basin, a large area of which lies below 2500 fathoms and reaches 3557 fathomsin the Kei Trench.

The Black Sea, connected with the Mediterranean by long and narrow channels, is occupied in the north by an extensive shelf on which Mean Depths of Oceans and Seas.

After the return from Varennes the royal family were closely guarded, but in spite of this they still found channels of communication with the outside world.

Notwithstanding the large number of streams, the depression of their channels and height of their banks render them for the most part unsuitable for the purposes of irrigation, - which is conducted by means of jhils and tanks.

These branches enclose a deltaic formation, a low tract of marshy alluvium known as the Lezirias, traversed by several minor channels.

He may justly claim the merit of having guided the awakened psychological interest of British thinkers of the second half of the 19th century into fruitful channels.

The larger streams have cut their channels to very moderate gradients, but the smaller ones are steeper.

For many years Massachusetts controlled a vast lumber trade, drawing upon the forests of Maine, but the growth of the west changed the old channels of trade, and Boston carpenters came to make use of western timber.

The trade of Konigsberg was much hindered by the constant shifting and silting up of the channels leading to its harbour; and the great northern wars did it immense harm, but before the end of the 17th century it had almost recovered.

As this money was drawn from the channels of business and locked up in the public vaults, the president looked upon the condition as fraught with danger to the commercial community and he addressed himself to the task of reducing taxation.

Nearly $600,000,000 of " fiat money " had been thrust into the channels of commerce in addition to $346,000,000 of legal tender notes that had been issued during the Civil War.

The mainland, opposite the western end of Long Island, is traversed by the lower Hudson and other channels - submerged valleys - which form a branching bay with several islands, the largest of which are Staten and Manhattan Islands.

Below the junction of the Hunte the Weser, hitherto a single stream, is divided into several channels by islands.

In some parts, especially (in Douglas and Grant counties) within the Big Bend of the Columbia, the plain is frequently cut by coulees, or abandoned river channels, some of them 500 to 600 ft.

The marsh, drained by many channels, seldom rises over a dozen feet above sea-level.

This system includes some of the principal channels of communication with the continent, through the ports of Dover, Folkestone and Queenborough.

The master streams of the present have inherited their channels from the drainage systems of the Cretaceous lowland, and though raised athwart the courses of the lowland trunk streams the great arch was developed so slowly that these channels could be maintained through pari passu deepening.

As the waters of the lake gradually receded, the rivers reached it by pushing their channels eastward through what was once its bed.

The stream of continuity has been broken, and divides into innumerable channels.