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channelize

vb. 1 to form a channel, especially by deepening or altering the course of a river 2 to transmit something through a channel 3 to multiplex messages through a single line

WordNet
channelize
  1. v. direct the course; determine the direction of travelling [syn: steer, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, direct, point, head, guide, channelise]

  2. make a channel for; provide with a channel; "channelize the country for better transportation" [syn: channelise]

  3. send from one person or place to another; "transmit a message" [syn: transmit, transfer, transport, channel, channelise]

  4. cause to form a channel; "channelize a stream" [syn: channelise]

Usage examples of "channelize".

The highest of the Tanu creative ones are able to gather energy and channelize it.

But her mind would remain meshed with Brede’s to channelize the neural fires.

I believe the early Bands discovered this Site, and drew on its nature to shape the devices that channelize the lines on which we travel.

But knowledge gleaned from texts might not channelize readily into the split-second decisions of physical combat.

Indeed, as he spoke, there was a great splashing, as the ogres reached the channelized river and waded in, knocking out the retaining walls as they went.

Then you channelized it, and the land dried out, and the hummers increased.

Now the hummers are gone —but if you channelize the river again, they will return worse than ever!

Now the hummers are gone -but if you channelize the river again, they will return worse than ever!

A bedrock rib on the far side of the glacier paralleled the one they were on, and the two ribs together looked like old lateral moraines, although really they were just parallel ridges that had channelized the outbreak flood.

The great outburst of '61 was now reduced to a slender pipeline's worth of water, channelized and regulated.

In the context of the great ice world stretching to the horizon in every direction, it was no more than a trickle-but it kept pouring steadily, the water on the eastern mass now channelized by ice on its sides, the falls booming like thunder, the water on the western side fanning out in a hundred streams through the broken ice and the hair on Maya's neck lifted in fear.

The great outburst of ‘61 was now reduced to a slender pipeline’s worth of water, channelized and regulated.

In the context of the great ice world stretching to the horizon in every direction, it was no more than a trickle—but it kept pouring steadily, the water on the eastern mass now channelized by ice on its sides, the falls booming like thunder, the water on the western side fanning out in a hundred streams through the broken ice— and the hair on Maya’s neck lifted in fear.

The little stream he had strolled beside in the company of the curious native female was gone completely, diverted or channelized out of existence.

Declivities in the landscape had turned into deep sand-walled canyons, cutting downstream to the North Sea in very unstable watersheds, channelizing subsequent spring melts and shifting rapidly as slopes collapsed and landslides created short-lived lakes, before the dams were cut through and carried off in their turn, leaving only beach terraces and slide gates.