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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Tailrace :: Tailrace (n.) The channel in which tailings, suspended in water, are conducted away..
Channeling :: Channeling (n.) A channel or a system of channels; a groove.
Gurt :: Gurt (n.) A gutter or channel for water, hewn out of the bottom of a working drift..
Diglyph :: Diglyph (n.) A projecting face like the triglyph, but having only two channels or grooves sunk in it..
Obstruct :: Obstruct (v. t.) To block up; to stop up or close, as a way or passage; to place an obstacle in, or fill with obstacles or impediments that prevent or hinder passing; as, to obstruct a street; to obstruct the channels of the body..
Down :: Down (prep.) A road for shipping in the English Channel or Straits of Dover, near Deal, employed as a naval rendezvous in time of war..
Gutter :: Gutter (n.) A small channel at the roadside or elsewhere, to lead off surface water..
Flute :: Flute (v. i.) A channel of curved section; -- usually applied to one of a vertical series of such channels used to decorate columns and pilasters in classical architecture. See Illust. under Base, n..
Fluted :: Fluted (a.) Decorated with flutes; channeled; grooved; as, a fluted column; a fluted ruffle; a fluted spectrum..
Navigate :: Navigate (v. i.) To joirney by water; to go in a vessel or ship; to perform the duties of a navigator; to use the waters as a highway or channel for commerce or communication; to sail.
Gullet :: Gullet (n.) A preparatory cut or channel in excavations, of sufficient width for the passage of earth wagons..
Channel :: Channel (n.) That through which anything passes; means of passing, conveying, or transmitting; as, the news was conveyed to us by different channels..
Sluice :: Sluice (n.) Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply..
Drove :: Drove (n.) A narrow drain or channel used in the irrigation of land.
Runner :: Runner (n.) A horizontal channel in a mold, through which the metal flows to the cavity formed by the pattern; also, the waste metal left in such a channel..
Gutter :: Gutter (v. i.) To become channeled, as a candle when the flame flares in the wind..
Shank :: Shank (v.) The space between two channels of the Doric triglyph.
Race :: Race (n.) The current of water that turns a water wheel, or the channel in which it flows; a mill race..
Channeling :: Channeling (n.) The act or process of forming a channel or channels.
Guide :: Guide (v. t.) Any contrivance, especially one having a directing edge, surface, or channel, for giving direction to the motion of anything, as water, an instrument, or part of a machine, or for directing the hand or eye, as of an operator.
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