chan·nel /ˈʧænḷ/
 通道,頻道,海峽(vt.)引導,開導,形成河道
 chan·nel /ˈʧænḷ/ 名詞
 channel
 通道; 資料通訊路徑 CHAN
 channel
 修改子通道 MSCH
 channel
 多通道;多通道 MTCH
 channel
 多路傳輸子通道 MSCH
 channel
 平行子通道
 channel
 副通道
 channel
 通道 波道
 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.
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 Chan·nel n.
 1. The hollow bed where a stream of water runs or may run.
 2. The deeper part of a river, harbor, strait, etc., where the main current flows, or which affords the best and safest passage for vessels.
 3. Geog. A strait, or narrow sea, between two portions of lands; as, the British Channel.
 4. That through which anything passes; a means of passing, conveying, or transmitting; as, the news was conveyed to us by different channels.
    The veins are converging channels.   --Dalton.
    At best, he is but a channel to convey to the National assembly such matter as may import that body to know.   --Burke.
 5. A gutter; a groove, as in a fluted column.
 6. pl.  Naut. Flat ledges of heavy plank bolted edgewise to the outside of a vessel, to increase the spread of the shrouds and carry them clear of the bulwarks.
 Channel bar, Channel iron Arch., an iron bar or beam having a section resembling a flat gutter or channel.
 Channel bill Zool., a very large Australian cuckoo (Scythrops Novæhollandiæ.
 Channel goose. Zool. See Gannet.
 channel
      n 1: a path over which electrical signals can pass; "a channel is
           typically what you rent from a telephone company" [syn:
           transmission channel]
      2: 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"
      3: 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]
      4: 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"
      5: (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]
      6: 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]
      7: 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]
      8: 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]
      v 1: 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]
      2: direct the flow of; "channel infomartion towards a broad
         audience" [syn: canalize, canalise]
      3: send from one person or place to another; "transmit a
         message" [syn: transmit, transfer, transport, channelize,
          channelise]
      [also: channelling, channelled]
 Channel
    (1.) The bed of the sea or of a river (Ps. 18:15; Isa. 8:7).
      (2.) The "chanelbone" (Job 31:22 marg.), properly "tube" or
    "shaft," an old term for the collar-bone.