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Channeling

Channeling \Chan"nel*ing\, n.

  1. The act or process of forming a channel or channels.

  2. A channel or a system of channels; a groove.

Channeling

Channel \Chan"nel\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Channeled, or Channelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Channeling, or Channelling.]

  1. To form a channel in; to cut or wear a channel or channels in; to groove.

    No more shall trenching war channel her fields.
    --Shak.

  2. To course through or over, as in a channel.
    --Cowper.

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channeling

n. (alt form channelling English) vb. (present participle of channel English)

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Channeling

Channeling, or channelling, may refer to:

  • Science
    • Channelling (physics), the process that constrains the path of a charged particle in a crystalline solid
    • Metabolite or substrate channeling in biochemistry and cell physiology
  • Other:
    • Legal channeling, a contractual or legal redirection of responsibilities from an organization to another
    • Mediumistic channeling, influences attributed to esoteric communications via a person described as a medium or channel
    • Channeling of an automobile's body

Usage examples of "channeling".

It seemed that she, at least, had not given up completely on channeling again one day.

Had channeling there not been a sure way to die, she would have destroyed the Halfman, or Traveled from the Pit itself.

They took it in stride, though they worried about it too, and they seemed to take his channeling in stride as well, and everything that might go with it.

For so long he had been the only man who could even think of channeling without looking over his shoulder in a sweat for Aes Sedai.

Reality began today, and reality might mean channeling, with all that entailed for a man.

It was a seductive claim in a land where channeling had been outlawed before Rand changed the law, and Aes Sedai were at best tolerated, where the Stone of Tear had stood invincible for close to three thousand years before Rand took it.

The other thing most wilders had in common was a block, something they had built up in their minds to hide their channeling even from themselves.

If those worked with her, she would have been channeling whenever she wanted long ago.

Supposedly the greatest achievements in the Age of Legends had been done by men and women channeling together, probably linked.

Just one Aes Sedai glimpsing her flows, even if she did not recognize what they were, would know someone was channeling at them.

He argued that it could not be her they were looking for, that she just had to be careful of her channeling and stay out of sight as much as possible.

After leaving Gawyn she had gone near enough to sense the channeling continuing inside, but left after one quick peek around the corner.

True, the simple act of picking something up was one of the hardest in channeling, but she had been able to lift nearly three times her own weight.

Rafela Cindal, also Blue Ajah, might be pleased with the changes Rand had made in Tear, where once channeling had been outlawed and a girl found able to learn was hurried out of the country, but she said little, and Morgase worried her too.

She had not been happy when Vandene and Adeleas began channeling at Mat without so much as a by-your-leave, and even less when he slipped off to that inn.