channel
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- noun
- /ˈtʃænəl/
- Beyond the island was a wide, muddy-brown channel, the northernmost arm of the great river.
- shipping channels
- main channel
- river channel
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Watch on YouTubeSo in my head I've swam the channel to get to this age.
- So in my head I've swam the channel to get to this age.
- This is a huge chapter of the channel right here behind me on this backyard pond.
- There was one obvious prominent slipway in to the channel closest to the camp.
- Yangtze The moon glimmers in the brown channel.
- They don't care the big tankers flying down the English Channel.
- So now imagine a channel that has two wells and one bubble.
- So now we have this little channel here.
Examples
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Masons built intersecting walkways, pools and channels of water to weave through the lush greenery.
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I'm gonna need you to drift through that channel over there.
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But then they also travel through this little channel out through here.
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Though it was not as strong as the pull of the other channel, it moved them along.
Fiction book (1990) -
The safe channel is clearly marked.
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Prepare to take us into the channel.
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This is the island of St. Jack Wood, extending far north from Land's End along the deep water channel that leads to Broken Rock.
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Between the two fleets were Shoals, with a narrow channel being the only path through.
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Their access routes up and down riverbanks form natural channels for rainwater runoff.
Academic text (2011) -
The sailors navigated carefully through the narrow channel to reach the harbor.
Synonyms
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A small natural stream of water that often flows into a river
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A man-made water channel for boats and for watering fields
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A way for people or things to move through
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A narrow passage of water joining two larger seas or oceans
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A river, canal, or channel that boats use to travel
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A pipe under a road or railway that lets water flow
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A long narrow opening or channel made in the ground
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A narrow channel dug in the ground that carries away extra water
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A narrow channel dug to bring water to fields for farming
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A tiny stream of water that flows across the ground
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A small fast stream of water in the countryside
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A channel, natural or man-made, where water flows like a river
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A small narrow stream of water that flows across the land
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A narrow channel of water with strong currents where boats pass
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The natural channel that a river follows through the land
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A channel that directs water to turn a mill wheel
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A narrow entrance that connects a bay or lagoon to the sea
Compounds
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A narrow part of the sea that lies between southern England and northern France
- Specialized
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A way to send information between people, groups, or devices
- Specialized
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A way a company gets products to customers, like stores or online shops
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A freshwater fish with whisker-like feelers common in North America and often eaten
- Specialized
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A medicine that reduces calcium entering the heart and blood vessels to treat high blood pressure and chest pain
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Largest amount of data a channel can send without errors, usually measured in bits per second
A national park on islands off southern California with many sea birds and marine life
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A narrow sea passage between Northern Ireland and Scotland linking the Atlantic Ocean and the Irish Sea
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A large catfish with bluish gray skin and a forked tail that lives in rivers like the Mississippi
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A large freshwater catfish with long whiskers and blue-gray color that lives in the Mississippi River
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Etymology
Channel comes from the old Latin word canalis, meaning 'pipe' or 'waterway', and originally named a path for water to flow. That is why a water channel is a deep, narrow way that boats use or that lets water pass through.