Noun

(en noun)

A low tract of moist or marshy land.

A long narrow and shallow trough between ridges on a beach, running parallel to the coastline.

A shallow troughlike depression that's created to carry water during rainstorms or snow melts; a drainage ditch.

A shallow, usually grassy depression sloping downward from a plains upland meadow or level vegetated ridgetop.

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Jane climbed a few more paces behind him and then peeped over the ridge. Just beyond began a shallow swale that deepened and widened into a valley, and then swung to the left.

A shallow trough dug into the land on contour (horizontally with no slope). Its purpose being to allow water time to percolate into the soil.

Noun

(en noun)

(UK, dialect) A gutter in a candle.

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.

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(en noun)

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