channel
verb/ˈtʃænl/
/ˈtʃænl/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they channel | /ˈtʃænl/ /ˈtʃænl/ |
| he / she / it channels | /ˈtʃænlz/ /ˈtʃænlz/ |
| past simple channelled | /ˈtʃænld/ /ˈtʃænld/ |
| past participle channelled | /ˈtʃænld/ /ˈtʃænld/ |
| (US English) past simple channeled | /ˈtʃænld/ /ˈtʃænld/ |
| (US English) past participle channeled | /ˈtʃænld/ /ˈtʃænld/ |
| -ing form channelling | /ˈtʃænəlɪŋ/ /ˈtʃænəlɪŋ/ |
| (US English) -ing form channeling | /ˈtʃænəlɪŋ/ /ˈtʃænəlɪŋ/ |
- channel something (into something) to direct money, feelings, ideas, etc. towards a particular thing or purpose
- He channels his energies into sport.
- channel something (through something) to send money, help, etc. using a particular route
- Money for the project will be channelled through local government.
- channel something to carry or send water, light, etc. through a passage
- A sensor channels the light signal along an optical fibre.
- channel somebody to act as a medium (= a person who claims to be able to communicate with the spirits of dead people) for somebody
- He believed that he could channel an ancestor from two hundred years ago.
- channel somebody to behave in the manner of somebody else, as though that person has given you the idea or desire to act in that way
- When he sang, he would channel Nat King Cole.
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ideas/feelings
money/help
water/light
spirit/character
Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French chanel, from Latin canalis ‘pipe, groove, channel’, from canna ‘reed’ from Greek kanna, kannē, of Semitic origin. Compare with canal.
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