channel
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ریشه و کاربرد
ریشه
From Old French 'chanel', from Latin 'canalis', meaning 'pipe' or 'groove'.
مثال
- The English Channel separates England and France.
- The Panama Canal connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
- The Channel Islands are located in the English Channel.
ترکیبهای رایج
Channel surfing Channel hopping Channel crossing Channel marker
تعریف انگلیسی
- a path over which electrical signals can pass “a channel is typically what you rent from a telephone company”
- 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”
- 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)
- 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”
- (often plural) a means of communication or access “it must go through official channels” “lines of communication were set up between the two firms”
- 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”
- a television station and its programs “a satellite TV channel” “surfing through the channels” “they offer more than one hundred channels”
- 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”
- transmit or serve as the medium for transmission “Sound carries well over water” “The airwaves carry the sound” “Many metals conduct heat” “Verb Frames:” “Somebody ----s something” “Somebody ----s something PP”
- direct the flow of “channel information towards a broad audience” “Verb Frames:” “Somebody ----s something” “Somebody ----s something PP” “They channel the water from the sink”
- send from one person or place to another “transmit a message” “Verb Frames:” “Somebody ----s something” “Something ----s something” “Somebody ----s something PP”
مترادفها
I. noun
1. Passage, duct, conduit, canal.
2. Water course, canal.
3. Gutter, furrow, fluting, chamfer.
4. Strait, arm of the sea, narrow sea.
5. Avenue, route, way.
II. verb active
Groove, flute, chamfer, cut furrows in, cut channels in.