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Grammar : Noun, verb
Spell : chan-l
Phonetic Transcription : ˈtʃæn l

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Définition of channels

Origin :
  • early 14c., "bed of running water," from Old French chanel "bed of a waterway; tube, pipe, gutter," from Latin canalis "groove, channel, waterpipe" (see canal). Given a broader, figurative sense 1530s (of information, commerce, etc.); meaning "circuit for telegraph communication" (1848) probably led to that of "band of frequency for radio or TV signals" (1928). The Channel Islands are the French Îles Anglo-Normandes.
  • noun pathway, usually containing water
  • noun means
  • verb direct, guide
Example sentences :
  • Ponds in the scrub could not easily be identified as channels.
  • Extract from : « Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia » by Thomas Mitchell
  • We are channels through which truth must flow to our patients.
  • Extract from : « The Bacillus of Beauty » by Harriet Stark
  • Why, my Masters, it can not as much as purge its own channels.
  • Extract from : « The Book of Khalid » by Ameen Rihani
  • Channels for water are formed at right angles to the ridges.
  • Extract from : « The Fabric of Civilization » by Anonymous
  • There is power over and behind us, and we are the channels of its communications.
  • Extract from : « Essays, Second Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • And there are other pleasures, those named of Aphrodite, of which the channels are well known.
  • Extract from : « Hiero » by Xenophon
  • Outside, the water was streaming down the channels into the fall.
  • Extract from : « The Great Hunger » by Johan Bojer
  • But it won't be an end of it, my dear, for there are plenty of channels besides Weedon Moore.
  • Extract from : « The Prisoner » by Alice Brown
  • "There are plenty of channels," said Madame Beattie, with an unmoved authority.
  • Extract from : « The Prisoner » by Alice Brown
  • There is a big flat there cut up by channels, and it is said to be a fine ground for bonefish.
  • Extract from : « Tales of Fishes » by Zane Grey

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