Definitions for channels

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channels chan·nel

Spelling: [chan-l]

IPA: /ˈtʃæn l/

Channels is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 219 anagrams from letters in channels (acehlnns).

Definitions for channels

noun

1. the bed of a stream, river, or other waterway.
2. Nautical. a navigable route between two bodies of water.
3. the deeper part of a waterway.
4. a wide strait, as between a continent and an island.
5. a course into which something may be directed:
6. a route through which anything passes or progresses:
7. channels, the specific, prescribed, or official course or means of communication:
8. a groove or furrow.
9. a means of access:
10. Architecture. a flute in a column, especially one having no fillet between it and other flutes. any of the prominent vertical grooves in a triglyph.
11. (in jazz or popular music) a bridge.
12. a frequency band of sufficient width for one- or two-way communication from or to a transmitter used for television, radio, CB radio, telephone, or telegraph communication.
13. Computers. a path for the transfer of signals or data within a computer or between a computer and its peripheral equipment.
14. Digital Technology. feed (def 23): a web page or website that distributes frequently updated content by means of a feed:
15. either of the two signals in stereophonic or any single signal in multichannel sound recording and reproduction.
16. Cell Biology. a transient opening made by a protein embedded in a cell membrane, permitting passage of specific ions or molecules into or out of the cell:
17. a tubular passage for liquids or fluids.
18. Building Trades. any structural member, as one of reinforced concrete, having the form of three sides of a rectangle. a number of such members: channel iron.
19. a horizontal timber or ledge built outboard from the side of a sailing vessel to spread shrouds and backstays outward.

verb (used with object)

1. to convey through or as through a channel:
2. to direct toward or into some particular course:
3. to excavate as a channel.
4. to form a channel in; groove.

verb (used without object)

1. to become marked by a channel:

Origin of channels

1250-1300; Middle English chanel Old French Latin canālis waterpipe; see canal

Examples for channels

Next morning, however, we saw her at anchor in the channel that leads to Kingston.

The Internet news agency slon.ru compiled a list of all the mistakes in the broadcast by channel 1.

Agreeing to this plan they crossed the channel and camped at Klu-quilth-coose.

Martin smiled cynically as he let his thoughts drift along this channel.

This was blocking the channel, and there was no more chance for getting off in that way.

On the other side of the channel a vast literature on the subject has sprung up.

It cropped up on a Kurdish channel and on a local German channel.

Archaeologists have an uncanny ability to ignore the discomforts and channel the time period and the people they're studying.

They get $8 million to dredge the channel for pleasure boats to sail to Catalina Island.

The official Russian state newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta republished the images along with channel 1's report.