channel
/ˈt͡ʃeə̯nəl/ nom B1En français : chaîne
- The hollow bed of running waters; (also) the bed of the sea or other body of water. · The water coming out of the waterwheel created a standing wave in the channel.
- The natural or man-made deeper course through a reef, bar, bay, or any shallow body of water. · A channel was dredged to allow ocean-going vessels to reach the city.
- The navigable part of a river. · We were careful to keep our boat in the channel.
- A narrow body of water between two land masses. · The English Channel lies between France and England.
- Something through which another thing passes; a means of conveying or transmitting. · The news was conveyed to us by different channels.
- An ion channel: pore-forming proteins located in a cell membrane that allow specific ions to pass through.
- A gutter; a groove, as in a fluted column.
- A structural member with a cross section shaped like a squared-off letter C.
Pluriel channels
Dans la bibliothèque
Holmes shrugged his shoulders with a glance of comic resignation towards the Colonel, and the talk drifted away into less dangerous channels.
And now, my dear Watson, we have had some weeks of severe work, and for one evening, I think, we may turn our thoughts into more pleasant channels.
“It seems to me,” said Franz, speaking in an undertone to Albert, “that if this person merited the high panegyrics of our landlord, he would have conveyed his invitation through another channel, and not permitted it to be brought to us in this unceremonious way.
“Certainly,” I answered, and the conversation drifted away into other channels.
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