資料來源 : pyDict

通道,頻道,海峽引導,開導,形成河道

資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Channel \Chan"nel\, n. [OE. chanel, canel, OF. chanel, F.
   chenel, fr. L. canalis. See {Canal}.]
   1. The hollow bed where a stream of water runs or may run.

   2. The deeper part of a river, harbor, strait, etc., where
      the main current flows, or which affords the best and
      safest passage for vessels.

   3. (Geog.) A strait, or narrow sea, between two portions of
      lands; as, the British Channel.

   4. That through which anything passes; means of passing,
      conveying, or transmitting; as, the news was conveyed to
      us by different channels.

            The veins are converging channels.    --Dalton.

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

   5. A gutter; a groove, as in a fluted column.

   6. pl. [Cf. {Chain wales}.] (Naut.) 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.

   {Channel bar}, {Channel iron} (Arch.), an iron bar or beam
      having a section resembling a flat gutter or channel.

   {Channel bill} (Zo["o]l.), a very large Australian cuckoo
      ({Scythrops Nov[ae]hollandi[ae]}.

   {Channel goose}. (Zo["o]l.) See {Gannet}.

Channel \Chan"nel\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Channeled}, or
   {Channelled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Channeling}, or
   {Channelling}.]
   1. To form a channel in; to cut or wear a channel or channels
      in; to groove.

            No more shall trenching war channel her fields.
                                                  --Shak.

   2. To course through or over, as in a channel. --Cowper.

資料來源 : WordNet®

channel
     v 1: transmit or serve as the medium for transmission; "Sound
          carries well over water"; "The airwaves carry the
          sound"; "Many metals conduct heat" [syn: {conduct}, {transmit},
           {convey}, {carry}]
     2: direct the flow of; "channel infomartion towards a broad
        audience" [syn: {canalize}, {canalise}]
     3: send from one person or place to another; "transmit a
        message" [syn: {transmit}, {transfer}, {transport}, {channelize},
         {channelise}]
     [also: {channelling}, {channelled}]

channel
     n 1: a path over which electrical signals can pass; "a channel is
          typically what you rent from a telephone company" [syn:
          {transmission channel}]
     2: a passage for water (or other fluids) to flow through; "the
        fields were crossed with irrigation channels"; "gutters
        carried off the rainwater into a series of channels under
        the street"
     3: a long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process (such
        as erosion) or by a tool (as e.g. a groove in a phonograph
        record) [syn: {groove}]
     4: a deep and relatively narrow body of water (as in a river or
        a harbor or a strait linking two larger bodies) that
        allows the best passage for vessels; "the ship went
        aground in the channel"
     5: (often plural) a means of communication or access; "it must
        go through official channels"; "lines of communication
        were set up between the two firms" [syn: {communication
        channel}, {line}]
     6: a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and
        conveying a secretion or other substance; "the tear duct
        was obstructed"; "the alimentary canal"; "poison is
        released through a channel in the snake's fangs" [syn: {duct},
         {epithelial duct}, {canal}]
     7: a television station and its programs; "a satellite TV
        channel"; "surfing through the channels"; "they offer more
        than one hundred channels" [syn: {television channel}, {TV
        channel}]
     8: a way of selling a company's product either directly or via
        distributors; "possible distribution channels are
        wholesalers or small retailers or retail chains or direct
        mailers or your own stores" [syn: {distribution channel}]
     [also: {channelling}, {channelled}]

資料來源 : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

channel
     
         (Or "chat room", "room", depending on the system in
        question) The basic unit of group discussion in {chat} systems
        like {IRC}.  Once one joins a channel, everything one types is
        read by others on that channel.  Channels can either be named
        with numbers or with strings that begin with a "#" sign and
        can have topic descriptions (which are generally irrelevant to
        the actual subject of discussion).
     
        Some notable channels are "#initgame", "#hottub" and
        "#report".  At times of international crisis, "#report" has
        hundreds of members, some of whom take turns listening to
        various news services and typing in summaries of the news, or
        in some cases, giving first-hand accounts of the action
        (e.g. Scud missile attacks in Tel Aviv during the Gulf War in
        1991).
     
        [{Jargon File}]
     
        (1998-01-25)