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# channel

«channel» in Mova's school dictionary: **a TV or radio station, or a stream of online videos: a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a channel, channels); verb (channel, channels, channelled/channeled, channelling/channeling)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A channel is a TV or radio station, or a stream of online videos: a cartoon channel, a YouTube channel. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/channel/#m1)

2) A channel is a narrow stretch of sea between two pieces of land: the English Channel. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/channel/#m2)

3) A channel is a long narrow passage that water flows along, like a ditch or a deep part of a river where ships can sail. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/channel/#m3)

4) A channel is a way of communicating or sending information: «through official channels». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/channel/#m4)

5) To channel something (water, energy, money) is to direct it to one place or purpose. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/channel/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life, children change TV channels and watch online channels (safety: ask an adult, check age ratings). In geography, the English Channel separates England and France (the Channel Tunnel goes under it). In science, rivers carve channels. In wellbeing lessons you channel your energy or anger into something good, like sport. Phrases: «change the channel», «the English Channel», «channel your energy».

### examples

- What channel is the cartoon on? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/channel/#x1)
- Please don't change the channel. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/channel/#x2)
- The English Channel lies between England and France. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/channel/#x3)
- Water flowed along the channel in the field. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/channel/#x4)
- The ships sailed through the deep channel. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/channel/#x5)
- She channels her energy into football. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/channel/#x6)
- Ask a parent before you subscribe to a channel. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/channel/#x7)
- We swam the channel between two islands. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/channel/#x8)
- The Empire of Blefuscu is an island parted from Lilliput only by a channel eight hundred yards wide. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/channel/#x9)

### note

UK spelling doubles the l: channelled, channelling; US: channeled, channeling. Online safety: not everything on a channel is true or meant for children — check with an adult.

### In the corpora

- [One event is often shown many times on different channels and phones; ten showings of a bombed building are still one building.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/51-scary-news-wars-disasters-and-how-to-talk-about-them/10/)
- [In the UK the watershed is 9 pm: programmes not suitable for children are not shown on ordinary TV channels before then.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/57-age-ratings-and-why-they-exist/19/)
- [In Brisbane, Kirra and Jai start a YouTube channel reviewing servo pies (a servo is a petrol station).](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/507-siblings-as-best-mates-and-as-rivals/26/)
- [Think of pouring a bucket of water on a sandpit: little channels join into bigger ones and run downhill to one place.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/16-the-great-rivers/4/)
- [The tide comes in across flat sand faster than you can walk and fills channels behind you first, cutting off sandbanks.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/71-swimming-out-too-far-sea-rivers-lakes-and-quarries/16/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «channel» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/channel/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.