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Channel can be a noun or a verb.
channel used as a noun:
- The physical confine of a river or slough, consisting of a bed and banks.
"The water coming out of the waterwheel created a standing wave in the channel." - 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." - The navigable part of a river.
"We were careful to keep our boat in the channel." - A narrow body of water between two land masses.
"The English Channel lies between France and England." - A connection between initiating and terminating nodes of a circuit.
"The guard-rail provided the channel between the downed wire and the tree." - The narrow conducting portion of a MOSFET transistor.
- The part that connects a data source to a data sink.
"A channel stretches between them." - A path for conveying electrical or electromagnetic signals, usually distinguished from other parallel paths.
"We are using one of the 24 channels." - A single path provided by a transmission medium via physical separation, such as by multipair cable.
"The channel is created by bonding the signals from these four pairs." - A single path provided by a transmission medium via spectral or protocol separation, such as by frequency or time-division multiplexing.
"Their call is being carried on channel 6 of the T-1 line." - A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies, usually in conjunction with a predetermined letter, number, or codeword, and allocated by international agreement.
"KNDD is the channel at 107.7 MHz in Seattle." - A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies used for transmitting television.
"NBC is on channel 11 in San Jose." - 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.
"This chip in this disk drive is the channel device." - The way in a turbine pump where the pressure is built up.
"The liquid is pressurized in the lateral channel." - A channel of distribution
- A particular area for conversations on an IRC network, analogous to a chatroom and often dedicated to a specific topic.
- An obsolete means of delivering up-to-date Internet content.
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
channel used as a verb:
- To direct the flow of something.
"We will channel the traffic to the left with these cones." - To assume the personality of another person, typically a historic figure, in a theatrical or paranormal presentation.
"When it is my turn to sing Karaoke, I am going to channel Ray Charles."
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
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What type of word is channel?
- Noun usage: The water coming out of the waterwheel created a standing wave in the channel.
- Noun usage: A channel was dredged to allow ocean-going vessels to reach the city.
- Noun usage: We were careful to keep our boat in the channel.
- Noun usage: The English Channel lies between France and England.
- Noun usage: The guard-rail provided the channel between the downed wire and the tree.
- Noun usage: A channel stretches between them.
- Noun usage: We are using one of the 24 channels.
- Noun usage: The channel is created by bonding the signals from these four pairs.
- Noun usage: Their call is being carried on channel 6 of the T-1 line.
- Noun usage: KNDD is the channel at 107.7 MHz in Seattle.
- Noun usage: NBC is on channel 11 in San Jose.
- Noun usage: This chip in this disk drive is the channel device.
- Noun usage: The liquid is pressurized in the lateral channel.
- Verb usage: We will channel the traffic to the left with these cones.
- Verb usage: When it is my turn to sing Karaoke, I am going to channel Ray Charles.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of channel are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of channel, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
