The Collaborative International Dictionary
Channel \Chan"nel\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Channeled, or Channelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Channeling, or Channelling.]
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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. To course through or over, as in a channel.
--Cowper.
Wiktionary
vb. (context British spelling English) (en-past of channel nodot=1); (alternative spelling of channeled lang=en nocap=1)
WordNet
See channel
v. transmit or serve as the medium for transmission; "Sound carries well over water"; "The airwaves carry the sound"; "Many metals conduct heat" [syn: conduct, transmit, convey, carry]
direct the flow of; "channel infomartion towards a broad audience" [syn: canalize, canalise]
send from one person or place to another; "transmit a message" [syn: transmit, transfer, transport, channelize, channelise]
[also: channelling, channelled]
n. a path over which electrical signals can pass; "a channel is typically what you rent from a telephone company" [syn: transmission channel]
a passage for water (or other fluids) to flow through; "the fields were crossed with irrigation channels"; "gutters carried off the rainwater into a series of channels under the street"
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) [syn: groove]
a deep and relatively narrow body of water (as in a river or a harbor or a strait linking two larger bodies) that allows the best passage for vessels; "the ship went aground in the channel"
(often plural) a means of communication or access; "it must go through official channels"; "lines of communication were set up between the two firms" [syn: communication channel, line]
a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance; "the tear duct was obstructed"; "the alimentary canal"; "poison is released through a channel in the snake's fangs" [syn: duct, epithelial duct, canal]
a television station and its programs; "a satellite TV channel"; "surfing through the channels"; "they offer more than one hundred channels" [syn: television channel, TV channel]
a way of selling a company's product either directly or via distributors; "possible distribution channels are wholesalers or small retailers or retail chains or direct mailers or your own stores" [syn: distribution channel]
[also: channelling, channelled]
Usage examples of "channelled".
The non-problematical problem was Confed-initiated, channelled through the Thirteen to Thoughtworld - and at a high price to the Confed, since the Thirteen knew how to charge exorbitantly for services rendered.
The building at the far end of this block-long concrete bower had a look of some austerity to it, with its strictly channelled cornerstones, but the square was anybody's, street-cultured, with blacks and buskers and birdshit, sax-players, pushers, jungle artists.
The dogs channelled the arang along beside the river, where a path had been worn.
It was equally typical of him -- more precisely, perhaps, it was typical of the rigorous mental conditioning he had undergone in his long training -- that his thoughts about the future were rigidly canalised, channelled along one all-exclusive, particular line of thought, towards the achievement of one specific objective.
Also the carrier and audio frequencies of the radio transmission did not require the fraction of a second to cover the distance because they were channelled through the accelerator of the hypercom equipment.
Each of the twelve was a testament to the car as art: chopped, channelled, sectioned, grafted, some on dropped spindles, with custom grilles, reconfigured hoods, frenched headlights, raised and flared wheel wells, handformed fender skirts.
So the lust of the courtiers has been channelled into spreading the usual rumors and speculations about me: that I am a slut, that I am a prude, that I am a Sapphist, that I am an untutored virgin, that I am a past mistress of exotic sexual practices.
Joaquin was running his '29 Model A with the Mercury engine, and the driver from Pomona was behind the wheel of a chopped and channelled Willys.
A union of man and machine, separate but equal, channelled through a flesh-and-blood body.
Channelled under the roof through sluicegates, the water reappeared in four shining spouts that issued from conduits in the dam wall.
From the peaks of the Dragon Mountains in Basutoland to the swamps of the Zambezi and Chobe, from the thirstlands of the Kalahari to the rain forest of the high plateau of Nyasaland, it gathered up the trickle of black men and channelled them first into a stream and finally into a mighty river that ran endlessly to the fabulous goldfields of the Ridge of White Waters, the Witwatersrand of Transvaal.