channel

Academic Word List, sublist 7.

About 30.58 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun The hollow bed of running waters; the bed of the sea or other body of water.

   The water coming out of the waterwheel created a standing wave in the channel.

2. noun The natural or man-made deeper course through a reef, bar, bay, or any shallow body of water.

   A channel was dredged to allow ocean-going vessels to reach the city.

3. noun The navigable part of a river.

   We were careful to keep our boat in the channel.

4. noun A narrow body of water between two land masses.

   The English Channel lies between France and England.

5. noun Something through which another thing passes; a means of conveying or transmitting.

   The news was conveyed to us by different channels.

6. noun An ion channel: pore-forming proteins located in a cell membrane that allow specific ions to pass through.
7. noun A gutter; a groove, as in a fluted column.
8. noun A structural member with a cross section shaped like a squared-off letter C.

Similar words

channelize canalize canal conduit duct carry transport convey transfer transmit

Often followed by

of and is to for in islands through was

Word family

channeled channeling channelled channelling channels