channel
/ˈt͡ʃeə̯nəl/ verb C2- To make or cut a channel or groove in.
- To direct or guide along a desired course. · We will channel the traffic to the left with these cones.
- To serve as a medium for. · She was channeling the spirit of her late husband, Seth.
- To follow as a model, especially in a performance. · He was trying to channel President Reagan, but the audience wasn't buying it.· When it is my turn to sing karaoke, I am going to channel Ray Charles.
He/she/it channels · Past channeled · Past participle channeled · -ing form channeling
Verb forms
- Base form
- channel
- He/she/it
- channels
- Past
- channeled
- Past participle
- channeled
- -ing form
- channeling
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It was simply a ruse to divert inquiry into a wrong channel.
I had raised my hat and was about to make some explanatory remark when her own words turned all my thoughts into a new channel.
“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.
By deliberately narrowing the river channel, the embankments cleverly increased the velocity of the water, thereby helping to scour the riverbed clean of remaining sediment.
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