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The physical confine of a river or slough, consisting of a bed and banks.
The natural or man-made deeper course through a reef, bar, bay, or any shallow body of water.
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The navigable part of a river.
A narrow body of water between two land masses.
That through which anything passes; means of conveying or transmitting.
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A gutter; a groove, as in a fluted column.
(nautical, in the plural) 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.
(electronics) A connection between initiating]] and [[terminate, terminating nodes of a circuit.
(electronics) The narrow conducting portion of a MOSFET transistor.
(communication) The part that connects a data source to a data sink.
(communication) A path for conveying electrical or electromagnetic signals, usually distinguished from other parallel paths.
(communication) A single path provided by a transmission medium via physical separation, such as by multipair cable.
(communication) A single path provided by a transmission medium via spectral or protocol separation, such as by frequency or time-division multiplexing.
(broadcasting) A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies, usually in conjunction with a predetermined letter, number, or codeword, and allocated by international agreement.
(broadcasting) A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies used for transmitting television.
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(storage) The portion of a storage medium, such as a track or a band, that is accessible to a given reading or writing station or head.
(technic) The way in a turbine pump where the pressure is built up.
(business, marketing) A distribution channel
(Internet) A particular area for conversations on an IRC network, analogous to a chatroom and often dedicated to a specific topic.
(Internet) An obsolete means of delivering up-to-date Internet content.
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A psychic or medium who temporarily takes on the personality of somebody else.
To direct the flow of something.
To assume the personality of another person, typically a historic figure, in a theatrical or paranormal presentation.
(nautical) The wale of a sailing ship which projects beyond the gunwale and to which the shrouds attach via the chains.
One who exerts power, or has the power to act; an actor.
One who acts for, or in the place of, another (the principal), by authority from him; one intrusted with the business of another; a substitute; a deputy; a factor.
An active power or cause; that which has the power to produce an effect; as, a physical, chemical, or medicinal agent ; as, heat is a powerful agent.
(computing) In the client-server model, the part of the system that performs information preparation and exchange on behalf of a client or server. Especially in the phrase “intelligent agent” it implies some kind of autonomous process which can communicate with other agents to perform some collective task on behalf of one or more humans.
(grammar) The participant of a situation that carries out the action in this situation, e.g. "the boy" in the sentences "The boy kicked the ball" and "The ball was kicked by the boy".
Channel is a related term of agent.
As a proper noun channel
is (by ellipsis) the english channel.As a noun agent is
agent (intermediary for certain services, such as for artistic performances or public relations).channel
English
(wikipedia channel)Etymology 1
From (etyl) chenel (French: '', ''chenal ), from (etyl)Noun
(en noun)- ''The water coming out of the waterwheel created a standing wave in the channel .
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- A channel was dredged to allow ocean-going vessels to reach the city.
- We were careful to keep our boat in the channel .
- The English Channel lies between France and England.
- The news was conveyed to us by different channels .
- The veins are converging channels .
- At best, he is but a channel to convey to the National Assembly such matter as may import that body to know.
- The guard-rail provided the channel between the downed wire and the tree.
- A channel stretches between them.
- We are using one of the 24 channels .
- The channel is created by bonding the signals from these four pairs.
- Their call is being carried on channel 6 of the T-1 line.
- KNDD is the channel at 107.7 MHz in Seattle.
- NBC is on channel 11 in San Jose.
- TV back then was five channels (three networks, PBS, and an independent station that ran I Love Lucy reruns),
- This chip in this disk drive is the channel device.
- The liquid is pressurized in the lateral channel .
- Netcaster is the "receiver" for channels that are built into Netscape 4.01 and later releases.
- To access channels in Windows 98, you don't have to go any farther than your desktop.
Synonyms
* (narrow body of water between two land masses) passage, sound, strait * (for television) side , station (US)Derived terms
* channel-hopping * change the channel * ion channel * television channelVerb
- We will channel the traffic to the left with these cones.
- When it is my turn to sing karaoke, I am going to channel Ray Charles.
Derived terms
* backchannelEtymology 2
From chainwaleNoun
(en noun)agent
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(wikipedia agent)Noun
(en noun)- Heaven made us agents , free to good or ill. --Dryden.
- I see in him [Moby Dick] outrageous strength, with an inscrutable malice sinewing it. That inscrutable thing is chiefly what I hate; and be the white whale agent , or be the white whale principal, I will wreak that hate upon him. --Herman Melville, , ch. 36