channel1 nounchannel2 verb
channelchan‧nel1 /ˈtʃænl/ ●●● S3 W2 AWL noun [countable] 
WORD ORIGINchannel1
Origin:
1300-1400 Old French chanel, from Latin canalis; ➔ CANALEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- a channel for the water supply
- A lot of people switch channels during the commercials.
- Brent works in the news department at Channel 9.
- New channels of communication have opened up between the two governments.
- the English Channel
- The final episode will be shown on Channel 4 tonight.
- the sports channel on satellite TV
- There's a good movie on Channel 5 tonight.
- We need better distribution channels for our products.
- Currently, the average household has access to dozens of channels.
- He had a different channel to set up and he was determined to do it differently.
- That would help to ensure that political and social tensions were guided through established channels and not forced on to the streets.
- The broadcasters say they need both analog and digital channels for 15 years to ensure a smooth transition to the digital age.
- The event assuredly was communicated throughout the nursing system by informal channels.
- The former media consultant to Republican presidents has headed the business news and talk show channel since August 1993.
- The purpose of the magazine is to provide a communication channel for staff throughout the company.
- This traffic also permitted the firm to act as a channel of communications between the two governments in wartime.
Longman Language Activatoran organization that broadcasts programmes
a company or organization that broadcasts television or radio programmes: · What station are you listening to?television/TV/radio station: · A reporter from a local television station was sent to interview Shaw.· Buck was sports director at radio station KMOX in St. Louis.
a particular set of programmes that is broadcast by one television company; there are usually several different channels, and you can choose which one you want to watch: · The final episode will be shown on Channel 4 tonight.switch/change channels: · A lot of people switch channels during the commercials.sports/nature/kids' etc channel (=a channel that mainly shows sports, programmes about nature, programmes for children etc): · the sports channel on satellite TV
a group of television or radio stations owned by the same company, which broadcasts the same programmes in different parts of a country: · The series is sponsored by Ford and will be shown over the ABC network.· The rankings list the programs and the network they are shown on.· Cable News Network shows 24 hours of news.
all the people and organizations that provide information for the public, including television, radio, and the newspapers: · Much of what children learn comes directly from the mass media.· The film has received enormous attention in the media.· There can be little doubt that in this country the media is very biased.
WORD SETSaerial, nounairtime, nounAM, nounantenna, nounatmospherics, nounaudio, adjectiveband, nounBBC, the, beacon, nounbeam, verbBeeb, the, bleep, verbboom, nounboom box, nounBritish Broadcasting Corporation, nounbroadband, nounbroadcast, nounbroadcast, verbcable television, CB, nounCCTV, nounCeefax, nounchannel, nounclosed circuit television, nouncommunications satellite, nouncontrast, noundial, nounDJ, nounexposure, nounflash, verbFM, nounfrequency, nounham, nounHz, interference, nounjam, verbkHz, kilohertz, nounlinkup, nounlive, adjectivelocal radio, nounlong wave, nounloudspeaker, nounLW, mast, nounmedium wave, nounmegahertz, nounMHz, modulate, verbmonitor, nounmono, nounmono, adjectiveNBC, nounnetwork, nounnetwork, verbon-air, adjectiveover, prepositionpresenter, nounprogramming, nounquadraphonic, adjectiveradio, nounradio, verbreceive, verbreceiver, nounreception, nounrepeat, verbrepeat, nounrerun, nounrerun, verbroger, interjectionsatellite, nounsatellite dish, nounsatellite television, nounsaturation, nounscrambler, nounseries, nounset, nounshipping forecast, nounship-to-shore, adjectiveshort wave, nounsignal, nounsignature tune, nounsimulcast, verbSOS, nounsound, nounsound bite, nounsound check, nounstatic, nountelecast, nounTeletext, nountelevise, verbtelevision, nountelevision licence, nountelly, nountime signal, nountrack, verbtransistor, nountransistor radio, nountransmission, nountransmit, verbtransmitter, nountune, verbtuner, nountweeter, nountwo-way, adjectiveUHF, noununscramble, verbveejay, nounvideo, nounvideo, adjectivevideo jockey, nounvolume, nounwaveband, nounwavelength, nounwhite noise, nounwireless, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRYtypes of channel
a TV series based on the novelCOLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
· NTV is Russia’s leading television channel.
· What’s on the movie channel tonight?
(=using signals sent from a machine in space)· CNN and other satellite channels
(=using signals sent through a wire)· ABC announced its plans for a new cable channel.
(=not using satellite)· Channel 5 is the newest terrestrial channel in the UK.
(=using electronic signals sent out in the form of numbers)· You can’t record one digital channel while watching another.
(=paid for by people advertising on it)· On commercial channels they have advertisement breaks.
verbs· Use the remote control to change channels.
· He kept switching channels.
(=start a channel broadcasting on TV)· In 1994, SKY launched two new channels.
· The kids are always watching the cartoon channel.
· All the channels are broadcasting the match live.
(=keep changing from one channel to another)· I usually start channel-hopping when the adverts are on.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES (=a way of exchanging information, especially in an organization)· It's important to maintain good lines of communication between managers and staff.
(=diplomatic methods used for achieving something)· The president said that he hoped the situation could be resolved by diplomatic channels.
(also devote your energy to something) (=use most of your energy doing something)· She should channel more of her energy into her studies.
(=start watching a different TV channel)· Rod switched channels with the remote control.
a TV series based on the novel· The commercial channel had lured away two of its top acts, Morecambe and Wise and Bruce Forsyth.· The bill includes proposals for a new television channel, three new national commercial radio channels and numerous local services.· At least on commercial channels they have ad breaks for this sort of thing.
· In deeper channels, black and highly carbonaceous muds eventually form to create anaerobic conditions.· Spoons and shrimp have been effective baits in deeper channels of the river.· And deep channels of silence isolate certain islands entirely.· On one side of the street ran a sluggish stream in a deep channel cut through the earth.· Almost blind in the shallow muddy water, it is swimming by instinct, following the deepest sand channels.· Here the Severn, squeezed between the wooded walls of the gorge, churns relentlessly, eroding an ever deeper channel.· Three hundred and twenty-eight yards from the tee the Suez Canal cuts a deep channel across the course.· A short, deep channel introduced the fruit of her lips.
· The Midi Mate allows you to send up to three patch changes on three different channels and offers three different operational modes.· A customer uses her remote control to shop different channels with the touch of a button.· This, in turn, is sold through a different channel.· Only now had it occurred to him that it was moving along quite different channels.· He had a different channel to set up and he was determined to do it differently.· Also, they use four different channels simultaneously in normal operation.· Maybe he has four of them, silently playing different channels.· Many of the coaxial links in the ground today can carry only a handful of different channels at the same time.
· The diplomatic channel was generally used, and few bilateral treaties dealt with the subject.
· Posters were the main form of communication because of the lack of a direct channel between the party leaders and the people.· Employers have the clearest and most direct channels of communication to enormous numbers of people.· A direct marketing channel moves goods directly from manufacturer to consumer.· One the other hand abstract mathematical analysis and the experimental laboratory do not provide a direct channel to the subject studied.· Channel A represents a direct marketing channel.· Because everyone knows they have a direct channel of communication to the Palace, their ear is sought.· There will be two direct channels - a fast-answer telephone service for sophisticated customers and a postal service for the less sophisticated.· This strategy was possible because they have sold mainframes mostly to computer vendors in the country concerned rather than through direct sales channels.
· An indirect channel utilises intermediaries or middlemen, such as wholesalers. 25.· Fifty percent of Sun's business comes from indirect channels and this will remain so in future, said Thompson.· It sells entirely through indirect channels.· CLARiiON will not use Data General's own sales force to market the products, only indirect channels.· Channel C represents one of the shorter indirect channels, where the retailer is omitted.· Arguably the indirect consular channel, like the modes of transmission still to be noted, is solely a creature of conventions.· Channel D is another version of a shorter, indirect channel.· The first is the selection as the primary or preferred mode of transmission of the indirect consular channel.
· A student-produced news program broadcasts once a week on a local cable channel.· Satellite customers who are wired for cable sometimes keep the service to get local channels.· You know, the twenty-four-hour local news channel.· We had five or six local channels back then and that was really enough.
· The scheme involves dredging the main channel of the Medway estuary to provide a storage base for import-export cargoes.· None of the figures for any of the four main channels shows a significant increase in the number of people offended.· For the ordinary user there are two main channels to buy a computer through - either direct or from a dealer.· Again, we should note the interdependence and mutual necessity of the main and minor channels of mystical power.· At this point the river is divided into three main channels and there are numerous bridges crossing these waterways throughout the city.
· After entering the basin she had to negotiate the lock, a narrow channel which connected the basin to the dock proper.· It was a peculiar sort of fog which lay on the sea in dense banks striped with narrow, clear channels.· Boats have to negotiate a narrow winding channel between high slate walls to reach it.· Water tumbled headlong down narrow channels into the valley.· If the Ruritanian tributary was to flow into the country of junior fiction, it could only be in a narrower channel.
· The bill includes proposals for a new television channel, three new national commercial radio channels and numerous local services.· We can cut costs by bulk purchasing and take advantage of national retail distribution channels.
· The firm is promising to develop new distribution channels, predicting that resellers will private label their own systems with Integrix components.· He gave each show approximately one second to catch his attention before he hurried on to a new channel.· Overnight, in a flash-flood, it will dramatically move its banks, depositing shoals and cutting new channels.· The goal is to offer its customers hundreds of new cable channels and video services.· The bill also refers to a new channel, to be known as channel 5.· Some analysts believe Westinghouse decided to make a deal because it realized the difficulty of starting new channels from scratch.· We have introduced new opportunities for television, and we will introduce a new channel - Channel 5.· But cable representatives say the subscribers will also get more: two new channels.
· You know how long these things can take through normal channels ....· Blue searched through all the normal channels and came up empty.· Switching to the Normal channel I would say that using the crunch option for rock solo work is a matter of taste.· Any replies will arrive through the normal channels.· The last control on this channel is a volume pot which enables it to be balanced with the Normal channel.
· If the problem is occurring at a skylight, a single channel may solve it.· The technique allows 10 or more simultaneous conversations over a single channel that could carry only one analog call.
· The compression will let digital audio-visual services be carried by terrestrial and satellite channels, telecommunications networks or digital storage devices.
· The request was first submitted a number of months ago, but all attempts through the usual channels have failed.· This evening the usual channels, through my right hon. Friend, are the authors of the automatic timetable.· I suggest that the usual channels have a strong interest in seeing that they control this important piece of procedure.
NOUN· There are now 21 talk shows on daytime television; two cable channels run them around the clock.· The show also runs on other cable channels.· This and more already happens on satellite and cable channels, which are under the more lenient gaze of the Cable Authority.· A student-produced news program broadcasts once a week on a local cable channel.· The national broadcasting organisations have been threatened by deregulation which has encouraged the growth of private satellite and cable channels.· His departure from Time Warner coincided with sluggish operating results at the cable channel.· The goal is to offer its customers hundreds of new cable channels and video services.· Most basic cable channels have one or more fashion programs.
· Formal organisations have an explicit hierarchy in a well- defined structure; job specifications and communication channels are also well-defined.· This included new forms of magnetic tapes, each of which could hold hundreds of intercepted microwave communications channels.· Official communication channels may be side-stepped.· A sender transmits information through a communication channel to a receiver.· The purpose of the magazine is to provide a communication channel for staff throughout the company.· The communication channels to senior management are more direct.· All available communication channels should be used to promote these techniques.· Authority is top down, and utilizes formal communication channels, usually vertical, and well-defined policies and procedures.
· Its offerings are now also sold via Sage's existing international distribution channels.· What is the extent of our distribution channel?...· The firm is promising to develop new distribution channels, predicting that resellers will private label their own systems with Integrix components.· We can cut costs by bulk purchasing and take advantage of national retail distribution channels.· With Bertelsmann involved, it is not surprising that book clubs as well as electronics and book stores are being targeted as distribution channels.· That would be another major breakthrough, offering a huge distribution channel for the product.· The development greatly improves our own internal focus and accountability for both distribution channels.· Should it work enthusiastically toward changing the distribution channels?
· His 24-hour all-news channel tends to focus on disasters.· You know, the twenty-four-hour local news channel.· There are at least four companies, perhaps five, that would like to start a 24-hour news channel.· The shoddy performance of the networks and cable news channels is indefensible.· The session started early and finished late, and was broadcast live on all cable news channels.
· When there are sudden floods over the banks, more sand and mud are deposited, mainly near the river channel.· One of the craters is especially promising because it lies near what seem to be dried-out river channels, Barlow said.· The inland areas became lower than the silty areas near the coast and lower than the river channels.· In this way the river channel is slowly changing its position.· When the river channel fills and then overflows more mud is spread right across the floodplain.
· Freeze-frame pictures consume less bandwidth on the satellite channel and so cost less.· The compression will let digital audio-visual services be carried by terrestrial and satellite channels, telecommunications networks or digital storage devices.
· There is the underfunded Black Entertainment Television channel on cable.· I wrote to the editors of all the major newspapers and television channels asking them to cover the anniversary.· The bill includes proposals for a new television channel, three new national commercial radio channels and numerous local services.· It is a free television channel to three-to five-star hotels in London.· The fiercest competition of all, therefore, is between the rival television channels.· The prospect of a future which provides hundreds of television channels gives Madison Avenue nightmares.· Have new television channels, satellite cable etc. made the film critic redundant and fit for an academic existence only?
VERB· He switched the set back on, changing the channel to a news programme.· It ended, finally, and she changed the channel.· The living room was so small that I didn't need a remote to change channels without leaving my seat.· If you came looking for offense, Orange-ya glad you could change the channel?· If no-one defends you, change channels.· When I hear about deprivation and injustice in the world, I get up and change the channel. 71.· That's too much: I use the remote control to change channels.· Should it work enthusiastically toward changing the distribution channels?
· At low tide it is sometimes just possible to cross the channel without swimming.· The seventy-one-year-old steel cantilever span narrows down to two lanes as it crosses a channel that connects the Gulf to the Mississippi.· But we're just about to cross the shipping channel.
· Eventually, however, they managed to open a channel in the wedge and bring the leaders through to the barricades.· Try warming up when you must write particularly difficult projects-it will open the word-use channels.· I open myself as a channel to the Light.· The opening of these channels either directly inhibits a neuron from firing or reduces the amount of neurotransmitter released into the synapse.· Clearly we still have a long way to go to understand just how InsP 3 acts to open individual channels.· In the living interface section we discussed how tone recognition opens emotional channels.
· Small firms provide a useful channel for re-allocating labour from large firms without increasing official unemployment rates.· The rally, according to Merrill, provides students a channel to express feelings of violation and pain.· Puremix.com, which has taken two years to set up, will provide 40 channels of music.· One the other hand abstract mathematical analysis and the experimental laboratory do not provide a direct channel to the subject studied.· The purpose of the magazine is to provide a communication channel for staff throughout the company.· It provided a channel for protest while the war continued.· Since the Congress of Vienna, a general diplomatic system had provided the accepted channels of international relations.· Cabinet sub-committees, bureaucratic sub-committees, commissions, boards and quangos provide the channels for processing corporatist interest intermediation.
· He switched to the video channel and turned the machine on.· Chris Wallace switched channels, for exactly how much we have not been told.· To switch channels, you might walk into another building on fly up into the clouds.· He immediately switched channels to some one else.· If anyone claims to offer something else, we switch channels, the ultimate vote against.· He switched channels with the remote, clasped his hands behind his head.· It is all designed to stop you from using the remote-control button to switch channels.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRYPHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► terrestrial TV/broadcasting/channels etc
1television a television station and all the programmes that it broadcasts: - All recent records are for the Channel and most relate to single birds.
- Begin monitoring the channels on which tracer signals were found. 8.
- Does he think that that is the way that one should plan the freight movement from the north-west through the channel tunnel?
- Doubtless photography is making the same ravages on this side of the Channel as it is with us.
- During the later Middle Ages, Venice was the channel where everything gathered, to pass in or out.
- Nine items that a freely available on both sides of the channel.
- Rory was holding the television remote control and was flicking rapidly through the channels.
- The kind of ships needed on the two sides of the Channel differed a little.
- At least on commercial channels they have ad breaks for this sort of thing.
- By way of exception, the Regulations do not give the Director General powers in relation to commercial radio and television advertisements or to cable advertisements.
- Local operators hope that, if national commercial radio takes off, some cash will trickle down to them.
- The commercial channel had lured away two of its top acts, Morecambe and Wise and Bruce Forsyth.
- The bill includes proposals for a new television channel, three new national commercial radio channels and numerous local services.
- There are fourteen commercial television companies, and a host of commercial radio stations.
- Two commercial radio broadcasters, two television stations and cable networks provide more news.
the news on Channel 4 The kids are watching cartoons on the Disney Channel. What channel is ‘ER’ on? He changed channels to watch the basketball game.2for getting information/goods etc a system or method that you use to send or obtain information, goods, permission etc: The U.S. is working through diplomatic channels to find a solution. The new software will be sold through existing distribution channels.channel of It is important that we open channels of communication with the police.3sea/river a)an area of water that connects two larger areas of water: St George’s Channel b)the Channel British English the area of water between France and England SYN the English Channel c)the deepest part of a river, harbour, or sea, especially where it is deep enough to allow ships to sail in4water a passage that water or other liquids flow along: an irrigation channel5radio a particular range of sound waves which can be used to send and receive radio messages6in a surface a long deep line cut into a surface or a long deep space between two edges SYN groove: The sliding doors fit into these plastic channels.7way to express yourself a way of expressing your thoughts, feelings, or physical energy SYN vehiclechannel for Art provides a channel for the children’s creativity.COLLOCATIONStypes of channela television channel· NTV is Russia’s leading television channel.a news/movie/sports etc channel· What’s on the movie channel tonight?a satellite channel (=using signals sent from a machine in space)· CNN and other satellite channelsa cable channel (=using signals sent through a wire)· ABC announced its plans for a new cable channel.a terrestrial channel (=not using satellite)· Channel 5 is the newest terrestrial channel in the UK.a digital channel (=using electronic signals sent out in the form of numbers)· You can’t record one digital channel while watching another.a commercial channel (=paid for by people advertising on it)· On commercial channels they have advertisement breaks.verbschange channels· Use the remote control to change channels.switch channels· He kept switching channels.launch a channel (=start a channel broadcasting on TV)· In 1994, SKY launched two new channels.watch a channel· The kids are always watching the cartoon channel.a channel broadcasts something· All the channels are broadcasting the match live.channel-hop (=keep changing from one channel to another)· I usually start channel-hopping when the adverts are on.channel1 nounchannel2 verb
channelchannel2 ●○○ AWL verb (past tense and past participle channelled, present participle channelling British English, channeled, channeling American English) [transitive] VERB TABLE
channel
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | channel |
| he, she, it | channels | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | channelled (BrE), channeled (AmE) |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have channelled (BrE), channeled (AmE) |
| he, she, it | has channelled (BrE), channeled (AmE) | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had channelled (BrE), channeled (AmE) |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will channel |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have channelled (BrE), channeled (AmE) |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am channelling (BrE), channeling (AmE) |
| he, she, it | is channelling (BrE), channeling (AmE) | |
| you, we, they | are channelling (BrE), channeling (AmE) | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was channelling (BrE), channeling (AmE) |
| you, we, they | were channelling (BrE), channeling (AmE) | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been channelling (BrE), channeling (AmE) |
| he, she, it | has been channelling (BrE), channeling (AmE) | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been channelling (BrE), channeling (AmE) |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be channelling (BrE), channeling (AmE) |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been channelling (BrE), channeling (AmE) |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- These pipes will channel water to the settlement.
- Water had channeled grooves in the rock.
- For a number of reasons, therefore, planners may recommend that growth should be channelled into selected settlements.
- He brought back his foot as far as it would go and channelled all its hydraulic power into a forceful throw.
- It is argued that the lobby is used to channel dis-information to a gullible public.
- Some of this may have been channelled into Pathe, where Mr Fiorini is still co-chairman.
- This is achieved when scarce resources are channelled to their highest return uses.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a TV series based on the novelCOLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN
(=a way of exchanging information, especially in an organization)· It's important to maintain good lines of communication between managers and staff.
(=diplomatic methods used for achieving something)· The president said that he hoped the situation could be resolved by diplomatic channels.
(also devote your energy to something) (=use most of your energy doing something)· She should channel more of her energy into her studies.
(=start watching a different TV channel)· Rod switched channels with the remote control.
a TV series based on the novel· But it is the experience at the school itself which prompts the youths to channel their energies into sport.· They want to channel their energies in any direction they want, to do things their own way.· It was hardly a success as he channelled most of his energies into drumming with local groups.· He then organized a successful effort to channel the energies of civil rights activists into the politically preferable voting rights arena.
· Rewarding performance Motivation is a choice to channel energy into certain activities in the expectation that valued goals will be rewarded.· Caroline was not only learning, she was doing what she'd wanted to do, channelling her energy into something positive.· I shut myself off from the female race and channelled all my energy into my work.
· It said that it did not want the Government to channel funds in the direction of strategically selected industries.· In Chapter 1 we said that it was the job of a financial system to channel funds from surplus to deficit sectors.· A new group called the Thames Valley Parternship wants to channel private funds into schemes designed to tackle crime at its source.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► terrestrial TV/broadcasting/channels etc
1to control and direct something such as money or energy towards a particular purpose SYN directchannel something into something- At least on commercial channels they have ad breaks for this sort of thing.
- By way of exception, the Regulations do not give the Director General powers in relation to commercial radio and television advertisements or to cable advertisements.
- Local operators hope that, if national commercial radio takes off, some cash will trickle down to them.
- The commercial channel had lured away two of its top acts, Morecambe and Wise and Bruce Forsyth.
- The bill includes proposals for a new television channel, three new national commercial radio channels and numerous local services.
- There are fourteen commercial television companies, and a host of commercial radio stations.
- Two commercial radio broadcasters, two television stations and cable networks provide more news.
Most of his energy was channeled into writing and lecturing.channel something to somebody Profits are channelled to conservation groups.channel something through something The famine relief money was channelled through the UN.2to control or direct people or things to a particular place, work, situation etcchannel somebody/something into something Women were likely to be channeled into jobs as teachers or nurses. Drugs from government pharmacies were being channeled into illegal drug markets.3to cut a long deep line in something: Water had channelled grooves in the rock.4to send water through a passage: An efficient irrigation system channels water to the crops.5to allow a spirit to come into your body and speak through you, or to tell people a message that you have received in this way: She claims to channel the spirit of a 2,000-year-old hunter.6to look or sound like a famous person, especially someone who is dead: In her latest video, Kylie is channelling Marilyn Monroe.