Definition of channel

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Channel (n.) The hollow bed where a stream of water runs or may run.

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Passage :: Passage (v. i.) The act of passing; transit from one place to another; movement from point to point; a going by, over, across, or through; as, the passage of a man or a carriage; the passage of a ship or a bird; the passage of light; the passage of fluids through the pores or channels of the body..
Chop :: Chop (n.) The land at each side of the mouth of a river, harbor, or channel; as, East Chop or West Chop. See Chops..
Dike :: Dike (n.) A ditch; a channel for water made by digging.
Furrow :: Furrow (n.) Any trench, channel, or groove, as in wood or metal; a wrinkle on the face; as, the furrows of age..
Buoy :: Buoy (n.) A float; esp. a floating object moored to the bottom, to mark a channel or to point out the position of something beneath the water, as an anchor, shoal, rock, etc..
Canaliculated :: Canaliculated (a.) Having a channel or groove, as in the leafstalks of most palms..
Fluting :: Fluting (n.) Decoration by means of flutes or channels; a flute, or flutes collectively; as, the fluting of a column or pilaster; the fluting of a lady's ruffle..
Atresia :: Atresia (n.) Absence or closure of a natural passage or channel of the body; imperforation.
Clough :: Clough (n.) A sluice used in returning water to a channel after depositing its sediment on the flooded land.
Irrigate :: Irrigate (v. t.) To water, as land, by causing a stream to flow upon, over, or through it, as in artificial channels..
By-pass :: By-pass (n.) A by-passage, for a pipe, or other channel, to divert circulation from the usual course..
Race :: Race (n.) The current of water that turns a water wheel, or the channel in which it flows; a mill race..
Pilotage :: Pilotage (n.) The pilot's skill or knowledge, as of coasts, rocks, bars, and channels..
Roust :: Roust (n.) A strong tide or current, especially in a narrow channel..
Inosculation :: Inosculation (n.) The junction or connection of vessels, channels, or passages, so that their contents pass from one to the other; union by mouths or ducts; anastomosis; intercommunication; as, inosculation of veins, etc..
Bossage :: Bossage (n.) Rustic work, consisting of stones which seem to advance beyond the level of the building, by reason of indentures or channels left in the joinings..
Swash :: Swash (n.) A narrow sound or channel of water lying within a sand bank, or between a sand bank and the shore, or a bar over which the sea washes..
Sleeve :: Sleeve (n.) A narrow channel of water.
Cullis :: Cullis (n.) A gutter in a roof; a channel or groove.
Diglyph :: Diglyph (n.) A projecting face like the triglyph, but having only two channels or grooves sunk in it..
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