channel

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A television or radio station and its programmes.

   There's a good film on the other channel tonight.

2. 2
   noun

   A way of sending information or communicating.

   Complaints must go through official channels.

3. 3
   noun

   A narrow stretch of water joining two larger areas.

   The ship sailed slowly through the channel.

4. 4
   verb

   To direct something towards a particular purpose or place.

   They channelled their energy into the new project.

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Simplified etymology

Channel entered Middle English through French from Latin canalis, “pipe, groove, or channel.” Canalis derives from Latin canna, “cane, reed, or tube,” linking the word historically with canal.

Named after the Channel Islands, from where settlers once came from, in the early 18th-century. The Channel Islands are located in the English Channel, a strait (channel) separating the island of Great Britain from the coast of mainland Europe.

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