How to pronounce “channel”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• The hollow bed of running waters; (also) the bed of the sea or other body of water.
• The natural or man-made deeper course through a reef, bar, bay, or any shallow body of water.
• The navigable part of a river.
• A narrow body of water between two land masses.
• Something through which another thing passes; a means of conveying or transmitting.
• (biochemistry) An ion channel: pore-forming proteins located in a cell membrane that allow specific ions to pass through.
• A gutter; a groove, as in a fluted column.
• (construction, mechanical engineering) A structural member with a cross section shaped like a squared-off letter C.
• (electronics) A connection between initiating and 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.
• (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.
• The part of a turbine pump where the pressure is built up.
• (business, marketing) A distribution channel.
• (Internet) A particular area for conversations on an IRC or similar network, analogous to a chat room and often dedicated to a specific topic.
• (Internet, historical) A means of delivering up-to-date Internet content via a push mechanism.
• A psychic or medium who temporarily takes on the personality of somebody else.
• [Verb]
• (transitive) To make or cut a channel or groove in.
• (transitive) To direct or guide along a desired course.
• (transitive, of a spirit, as of a dead person) To serve as a medium for.
• (transitive) To follow as a model, especially in a performance.

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