Noun

(en noun)

A hole in the ground.

(motor racing) An area at a motor racetrack used for refueling and repairing the vehicles during a race.

(music) A section of the marching band containing mallet percussion instruments and other large percussion instruments too large to march, such as the tam tam. Also, the area on the sidelines where these instruments are placed.

A mine.

(archaeology) A hole or trench in the ground, excavated according to grid coordinates, so that the provenance of any feature observed and any specimen or artifact revealed may be established by precise measurement.

(trading) A trading pit.

Something particularly unpleasant.

The bottom part of.

(colloquial) Armpit, oxter.

(aviation) A luggage hold.

(countable) A small surface hole or depression, a fossa.

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The indented mark left by a pustule, as in smallpox.

The grave, or underworld.

* Milton

Back to the infernal pit I drag thee chained.

* Bible, Job xxxiii. 18

He keepeth back his soul from the pit .

An enclosed area into which gamecocks, dogs, and other animals are brought to fight, or where dogs are trained to kill rats.

* John Locke

as fiercely as two gamecocks in the pit

Formerly, that part of a theatre, on the floor of the house, below the level of the stage and behind the orchestra; now, in England, commonly the part behind the stalls; in the United States, the parquet; also, the occupants of such a part of a theatre.

Part of a casino which typically holds tables for blackjack, craps, roulette, and other games.

Noun

(en noun)

A seed inside a fruit; a stone or pip inside a fruit.

A shell in a drupe containing a seed.

Noun

(en noun)

The physical confine of a river or slough, consisting of a bed and banks.

''The water coming out of the waterwheel created a standing wave in the channel .

The natural or man-made deeper course through a reef, bar, bay, or any shallow body of water.

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A channel was dredged to allow ocean-going vessels to reach the city.

The navigable part of a river.

We were careful to keep our boat in the channel .

A narrow body of water between two land masses.

The English Channel lies between France and England.

That through which anything passes; means of conveying or transmitting.

The news was conveyed to us by different channels .

* Dalton

The veins are converging channels .

* Burke

At best, he is but a channel to convey to the National Assembly such matter as may import that body to know.

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.

The guard-rail provided the channel between the downed wire and the tree.

(electronics) The narrow conducting portion of a MOSFET transistor.

(communication) The part that connects a data source to a data sink.

A channel stretches between them.

(communication) A path for conveying electrical or electromagnetic signals, usually distinguished from other parallel paths.

We are using one of the 24 channels .

(communication) A single path provided by a transmission medium via physical separation, such as by multipair cable.

The channel is created by bonding the signals from these four pairs.

(communication) A single path provided by a transmission medium via spectral or protocol separation, such as by frequency or time-division multiplexing.

Their call is being carried on channel 6 of the T-1 line.

(broadcasting) A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies, usually in conjunction with a predetermined letter, number, or codeword, and allocated by international agreement.

KNDD is the channel at 107.7 MHz in Seattle.

(broadcasting) A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies used for transmitting television.

NBC is on channel 11 in San Jose.

* 2008 , Lou Schuler, "Foreward", in'' Nate Green, ''Built for Show , page xi

TV back then was five channels (three networks, PBS, and an independent station that ran I Love Lucy reruns),

(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.

This chip in this disk drive is the channel device.

(technic) The way in a turbine pump where the pressure is built up.

The liquid is pressurized in the lateral channel .

(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.

* 1999 , Jeffrey S Rule, Dynamic HTML: The HTML Developer's Guide

Netcaster is the "receiver" for channels that are built into Netscape 4.01 and later releases.

* 1999 , Margaret Levine Young, Internet: The Complete Reference

To access channels in Windows 98, you don't have to go any farther than your desktop.

A psychic or medium who temporarily takes on the personality of somebody else.

Noun

(en noun)

(nautical) The wale of a sailing ship which projects beyond the gunwale and to which the shrouds attach via the chains.