channel – English noun declension

English noun forms of channel

Noun: channel
Singularchannel
Pluralchannels

Sample Sentences

  • The water coming out of the waterwheel created a standing wave in the channel.
  • A channel was dredged to allow ocean-going vessels to reach the city.
  • European adventurers found themselves within a watery world, a tapestry of streams, channels, wetlands, lakes and lush riparian meadows enriched by floodwaters from the Mississippi River. [2013 January 26, Nancy Langston, “The Fraught History of a Watery World”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 1, archived from the original on 22 Jan 2013, page 59:]
  • We were careful to keep our boat in the channel.
  • The English Channel lies between France and England.
  • Our citizens and our businesses on both sides of the channel need more security and predictability for the future [2018 May 14, Jon Stone in Brussels, The Independent:]
  • The news was conveyed to us by different channels.
  • But I write to tell you what you will hear through all the various channels by which news travels,... [1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, pages 69–70:]
  • The veins are converging channels. [1859, John Call Dalton, A Treatise on Human Physiology:]
  • At best, he is but a channel to convey to the National Assembly such matter as may import that body to know. [1790 November, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. […], London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], →OCLC:]
  • The channel is not very efficient as a beam or column when used alone, but built-up members may be constructed of channels assembled together with other structural shapes and connected by rivets or welds. [1960, “Structural Shapes”, in Construction Materials, Concrete Construction, and Engineer Computations, U.S. Government Printing Office:]
  • The guard-rail provided the channel between the downed wire and the tree.
  • A channel stretches between them.
  • We are using one of the 24 channels.
  • The channel is created by bonding the signals from these four pairs.
  • Their call is being carried on channel 6 of the T-1 line.
  • KNDD is the channel at 107.7 MHz in Seattle.
  • NBC is on channel 11 in San Jose.
  • 2008, Lou Schuler, "Foreward", in Nate Green, Built for Show, page xi
  • TV back then was five channels (three networks, PBS, and an independent station that ran I Love Lucy reruns), […]
  • This chip in this disk drive is the channel device.
  • The liquid is pressurized in the lateral channel.
  • The excerpt in Figure 1 below shows a list of some channel names as they appear to an IRC user. The left hand column displays the channel name, the middle column displays how many people are currently on the channel, and the right hand column indicates the theme of the channel or the current topic of conversation: […] [1996, Susan C. Herring, Computer-mediated Communication, page 50:]
  • Netcaster is the "receiver" for channels that are built into Netscape 4.01 and later releases. [1999, Jeffrey S Rule, Dynamic HTML: The HTML Developer's Guide:]
  • To access channels in Windows 98, you don't have to go any farther than your desktop. [1999, Margaret Levine Young, Internet: The Complete Reference:]

Etymology

From Middle English chanel (also as canel, cannel, kanel), a borrowing from Old French chanel, canel, from Latin canālis (“groove; canal; channel”). Doublet of canal. See: Middle English Nouns 'chanel', Latin Nouns 'canālis'.

Verbs referencing "channel"

German Nouns Kanal.