| 释义 |
channelize, v. Chiefly U.S.|ˈtʃænəlaɪz|
[f. channel n.1 + -ize.]
trans. To convey in or as in a channel; to guide; see also quot. 1957. Cf. channellize v.
1939H. Blumer in R. E. Park Outl. Princ. Sociol. xxii. 227 Fashion, by providing an opportunity for the expression of dispositions and tastes, serves to make them definite and to channelize them and, consequently, to fix and solidify them. 1957Britannica Bk. of Year 1956 512/1 Daily and social life [in U.S.A.] gave such words as Channelize (with the noun-form Channelization), to control traffic by curbs and dividers. 1958Blesh & Janis They all played Ragtime vii. 128 The main course of a folk music that..had moved over the borderline that separates folk art from fine art was channelized in a new direction. 1959C. Ogburn Marauders (1960) iii. 100 Movement through the..kunai, or elephant, grass that was often as tall as a man or taller was narrowly channelized.
So ˌchanneliˈzation, the action of channelizing; spec. in Neurology, the formation of a channel of nervous conduction or discharge (cf. canalization 2).
1902Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. XIII. 405 The problem is how to give normal emotional channelization, the safety valve of this biological heredity. 1957[see above]. 1958A. D. Booth in Aspects of Translation v. 90 Young professional linguists whose ideas had not, through channelization, been so stultified as to make them incapable of appreciating the new techniques. |