Definition of channel

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Channel (n.) A strait, or narrow sea, between two portions of lands; as, the British Channel..

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Streamlet :: Streamless (a.) Destitute of streams, or of a stream, as a region of country, or a dry channel..
Wear :: Wear (v. t.) To cause or make by friction or wasting; as, to wear a channel; to wear a hole..
Rhonchus :: Rhonchus (n.) An adventitious whistling or snoring sound heard on auscultation of the chest when the air channels are partially obstructed. By some writers the term rhonchus is used as equivalent to rale in its widest sense. See Rale.
Water Course :: Water course () A natural channel for water; also, a canal for the conveyance of water, especially in draining lands..
Gutter :: Gutter (v. i.) To become channeled, as a candle when the flame flares in the wind..
Levee :: Levee (v. t.) To keep within a channel by means of levees; as, to levee a river..
Gurt :: Gurt (n.) A gutter or channel for water, hewn out of the bottom of a working drift..
Chamfer :: Chamfer (v. t.) To cut a furrow in, as in a column; to groove; to channel; to flute..
Bore :: Bore (n.) Less properly, a very high and rapid tidal flow, when not so abrupt, such as occurs at the Bay of Fundy and in the British Channel..
Enchannel :: Enchannel (v. t.) To make run in a channel.
Hydrography :: Hydrography (n.) That branch of surveying which embraces the determination of the contour of the bottom of a harbor or other sheet of water, the depth of soundings, the position of channels and shoals, with the construction of charts exhibiting these particulars..
Constipate :: Constipate (v. t.) To stop (a channel) by filling it, and preventing passage through it; as, to constipate the capillary vessels..
Sluice :: Sluice (n.) Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply..
Offshoot :: Offshoot (n.) That which shoots off or separates from a main stem, channel, family, race, etc.; as, the offshoots of a tree..
Gullet :: Gullet (n.) A channel for water.
Siphonostomatous :: Siphonostomatous (a.) Having the front edge of the aperture of the shell prolonged in the shape of a channel for the protection of the siphon; -- said of certain gastropods.
Geat :: Geat (n.) The channel or spout through which molten metal runs into a mold in casting.
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..
Bass :: Bass (n.) The southern, red, or channel bass (Sciaena ocellata). See Redfish..
Channeling :: Channeling (n.) The act or process of forming a channel or channels.
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