2013 January, Nancy Langston, “The Fraught History of a Watery World”, inAmerican Scientist[1], volume101, number 1, archived fromthe original on22 January 2013, page59:
European adventurers found themselves within a watery world, a tapestry of streams,channels, wetlands, lakes and lush riparian meadows enriched by floodwaters from the Mississippi River.
Achannel was dredged to allow ocean-going vessels to reach the city.
1960, “Structural Shapes”, inConstruction Materials, Concrete Construction, and Engineer Computations, U.S. Government Printing Office:
Thechannel is not very efficient as a beam or column when used alone, but built-up members may be constructed ofchannels assembled together with other structural shapes and connected by rivets or welds.
Their call is being carried onchannel 6 of the T-1 line.
(broadcasting) Aspecific radio frequency orband of frequencies, usually in conjunction with a predetermined letter, number, or codeword, and allocated by international agreement.
1996, Susan C. Herring,Computer-mediated Communication, page50:
The excerpt in Figure 1 below shows a list of somechannel names as they appear to an IRC user. The left hand column displays thechannel name, the middle column displays how many people are currently on thechannel, and the right hand column indicates the theme of thechannel or the current topic of conversation:[…]
storage: portion of a storage medium that is accessible to a given reading or writing station or head
technic: way in a turbine pump where the pressure is built up
The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions atWiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.
We willchannel the traffic to the left with these cones.
1997, Eric J Evans,Thatcher and Thatcherism:
The resourceschannelled to those institutions which showed themselves most adept at formfilling, self-promotion and presentation were inadequate to sustain the quality they claimed.
But the real excitement is to be found in Erith and Thamesmead, where the Blairites in exile arechannelling their hopes on Georgia Gould, 22, daughter of Mr Tony's famed pollmeister Philip.
(transitive, of a spirit, as of a dead person) To serve as a medium for.
She waschanneling the spirit of her late husband, Seth.
(transitive) To follow as a model, especially in a performance.
He was trying tochannel President Reagan, but the audience wasn't buying it.
When it is my turn to sing karaoke, I am going tochannel Ray Charles.
He ischanneling the most narcotic form of oratory in modern America for whites as well as blacks: a preacherly style of speaking rooted in black American tradition.
(nautical) Thewale of a sailing ship which projects beyond thegunwale and to which theshrouds attach via the chains. One of the 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.
