可数名词：

1. 河床

2.（液体的）通道

3. 航道

4. 海峡

5.（新闻、信息等传递的）途径，线路

6. 频道；某电视台

及物动词：

1. 在（某物）上形成槽或沟

2. 经水道运送（某物）；引导

词形变化

名称channeler

时态channeled，channelled，channeling，channelling，channels，channels

单词分析

这两个名词均含“海峡”之意。

channel指比strait长而宽的海峡。

strait指短而窄的海峡。常用复数形式但作单数用。

英语解释

direct the flow of

transmit or serve as the medium for transmission

a long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process (such as erosion) or by a tool (as e.g. a groove in a phonograph record)

a television station and its programs

a path over which electrical signals can pass

a way of selling a company's product either directly or via distributors

a passage for water (or other fluids) to flow through

a deep and relatively narrow body of water (as in a river or a harbor or a strait linking two larger bodies) that allows the best passage for vessels

send from one person or place to another

(often plural) a means of communication or access

a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance