Channel

(noun.) 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'.

(noun.) a television station and its programs; 'a satellite TV channel'; 'surfing through the channels'; 'they offer more than one hundred channels'.

(noun.) a path over which electrical signals can pass; 'a channel is typically what you rent from a telephone company'.

(noun.) (often plural) a means of communication or access; 'it must go through official channels'; 'lines of communication were set up between the two firms'.

(noun.) 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'.

(verb.) direct the flow of; 'channel information towards a broad audience'.

雨果录入

• The English Channel is a holy terror, all right, but it didn't affect me. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Yes, Wegg,' was the reply through the same channel. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• These jetties so concentrated the flow of waters into a narrow channel as to cause its increased velocity to wash out the mud and silt and deepen the channel. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• The water thus discharged passes through a diversion channel in the old bed of the Chagres River, generating, by an enormous electric plant, the power necessary for operating the locks. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Shoe with outsole laid and rounded; channel lip turned up ready to be stitched. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• My thoughts flowed back into their former channel. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• If he, the Secretary, engaged that schoolmaster to impart it to him, the channel might be opened. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Her full nature, like that river of which Cyrus broke the strength, spent itself in channels which had no great name on the earth. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• When the demands and wishes of others forbid their direct expression they are easily driven into subterranean and deep channels. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Her commerce, instead of running in a great number of small channels, has been taught to run principally in one great channel. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• In case of a crevasse in this vicinity, the water escaping would find its outlet through the same channels. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• The melted purified iron falling to the bottom was drawn off through a hole tapped in the furnace, and the molten metal ran into channels in a bed of sand called the Sow and pigs. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Activity is defined or specialized in certain channels. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Holmes shrugged his shoulders with a glance of comic resignation towards the Colonel, and the talk drifted away into less dangerous channels. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• Machines for this purpose are called stone-channelling machines. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.

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