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audio
1. adj. Focused on audible sound, as opposed to sight.
2. n. A sound, or a sound signal
engineering
1. v. present participle of engineer
2. n. The application of mathematics and the physical sciences to the needs of humanity and the development of technology.
3. n. The area aboard a ship where the engine is located.
4. n. Actions controling the motion, shape, and/or substance of any physical object(s).
5. n. Designates office area of the professional engineering staff.
having
1. v. present participle of have
2. n. Something owned; possession; goods; estate.
have
Additional archaic forms are second-person singular present tense hast, third-person singular present tense hath, present participle haveing, and second-person singular past tense hadst.
1. v. To possess, own, hold.
I have a house and a car.
Look what I have here — a frog I found on the street!
2. v. To be related in some way to (with the object identifying the relationship).
I have two sisters.
I have a lot of work to do.
3. v. To partake of a particular substance (especially a food or drink) or action.
I have breakfast at six o'clock.
Can I have a look at that?
I'm going to have some pizza and a beer right now.
4. v. To be scheduled to attend or participate in.
What class do you have right now? I have English.
Fred won't be able to come to the party; he has a meeting that day.
5. v. (auxiliary verb, taking a past participle) (Used in forming the perfect aspect and the past perfect aspect.)
I have already eaten today.
I had already eaten.
6. v. (auxiliary verb, taking a to-infinitive) See have to.
I have to go.
7. v. To give birth to.
The couple always wanted to have children.
My wife is having the baby right now!
My mother had me when she was 25.
8. v. To engage in sexual intercourse with.
He's always bragging about how many women he's had.
9. v. To accept as a romantic partner.
Despite my protestations of love, she would not have me.
10. v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To cause to, by a command, request or invitation.
They had me feed their dog while they were out of town.
11. v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To cause to be.
He had him arrested for trespassing.
The lecture's ending had the entire audience in tears.
12. v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is not a verb argument.)
The hospital had several patients contract pneumonia last week.
I've had three people today tell me my hair looks nice.
13. v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To depict as being.
Their stories differed; he said he'd been at work when the incident occurred, but her statement had him at home that entire evening.
14. v. (Used as interrogative auxiliary verb with a following pronoun to form tag questions. (For further discussion, see "Usage notes" below.))
We haven't eaten dinner yet, have we?
Your wife hasn't been reading that nonsense, has she?
(UK usage) He has some money, hasn't he?
15. v. (UK, slang) To defeat in a fight; take.
I could have him!
I'm gonna have you!
16. v. (dated) To be able to speak a language.
I have no German.
17. v. To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of.
Dan certainly has arms today, probably from scraping paint off four columns the day before.
18. v. To be afflicted with, suffer from.
He had a cold last week.
19. v. To experience, go through, undergo.
We had a hard year last year, with the locust swarms and all that.
He had surgery on his hip yesterday.
I'm having the time of my life!
20. v. To trick, to deceive.
You had me alright! I never would have thought that was just a joke.
21. v. (transitive, often with present participle) To allow; to tolerate.
The child screamed incessantly for his mother to buy him a toy, but she wasn't having any of it.
I asked my dad if I could go to the concert this Thursday, but he wouldn't have it since it's a school night.
22. v. (transitive, often used in the negative) To believe, buy, be taken in by.
I made up an excuse as to why I was out so late, but my wife wasn't having any of it.
23. v. To host someone; to take in as a guest.
Thank you for having me!
24. v. To get a reading, measurement, or result from an instrument or calculation.
What do you have for problem two?
I have two contacts on my scope.
25. v. (transitive, of a jury) To consider a court proceeding that has been completed; to begin deliberations on a case.
We'll schedule closing arguments for Thursday, and the jury will have the case by that afternoon.
26. n. A wealthy or privileged person.
27. n. (uncommon) One who has some (contextually specified) thing.
28. n. (AU, NZ, informal) A fraud or deception; something misleading.
They advertise it as a great deal, but I think it's a bit of a have.
separate
1. adj. Apart from (the rest); not connected to or attached to (anything else).
This chair can be disassembled into five separate pieces.
2. adj. (followed by “from”) Not together (with); not united (to).
I try to keep my personal life separate from work.
3. v. To divide (a thing) into separate parts.
Separate the articles from the headings.
4. v. To disunite something from one thing; To disconnect.
5. v. To cause (things or people) to be separate.
If the kids get too noisy, separate them for a few minutes.
6. v. (intransitive) To divide itself into separate pieces or substances.
The sauce will separate if you don't keep stirring.
7. v. (obsolete) To set apart; to select from among others, as for a special use or service.
8. n. (usually in the plural) Anything that is sold by itself, especially an article of clothing.
and
1. conj. As a coordinating conjunction; expressing two elements to be taken together or in addition to each other.
2. conj. Used simply to connect two noun phrases, adjectives or adverbs.
3. conj. Simply connecting two clauses or sentences.
4. conj. Introducing a clause or sentence which follows on in time or consequence from the first.
5. conj. (obsolete) Yet; but.
6. conj. Used to connect certain numbers: connecting units when they precede tens (not dated); connecting tens and units to hundreds, thousands etc. (now often
7. conj. (now colloquial, or literary) Used to connect more than two elements together in a chain, sometimes to stress the number of elements.
8. conj. Connecting two identical elements, with implications of continued or infinite repetition.
9. conj. Introducing a parenthetical or explanatory clause.
10. conj. Introducing the continuation of narration from a previous understood point; also used alone as a question: ‘and so what?’.
11. conj. (now regional or somewhat colloquial) Used to connect two verbs where the second is dependent on the first: ‘to’. Used especially after come,
12. conj. Introducing a qualitative difference between things having the same name; "as well as other".
13. conj. Used to combine numbers in addition; plus (with singular or plural verb).
14. conj. Expressing a condition.:
15. conj. (now US dialect) If; provided that.
16. conj. (obsolete) As if, as though.
17. n. (enm, music, often informal) In rhythm, the second half of a divided beat.
18. n. (UK dialectal) Breath.
19. n. (UK dialectal) Sea smoke; steam fog.
20. v. (UK dialectal, intransitive) To breathe; whisper; devise; imagine.
independent
1. adj. Not dependent; not contingent or depending on something else; free.
2. adj. (politics) Not affiliated with any political party.
the independent candidate
3. adj. Providing a comfortable livelihood.
an independent property
4. adj. Not subject to bias or influence; self-directing.
a man of an independent mind
5. adj. Separate from; exclusive; irrespective.
6. n. A candidate or voter not affiliated with any political party, a freethinker, free of a party platform.
7. n. A neutral or uncommitted person.
8. n. (sports) A team not affiliated with any league or conference.
channels
1. n. plural of channel
2. n. (pluralonly) Formal lines of command and procedure.
I'd love to be able to help you, but you'll have put that request through channels.
3. v. third-person singular present indicative of channel
channel
1. n. The physical confine of a river or slough, consisting of a bed and banks.
The water coming out of the waterwheel created a standing wave in the channel.
2. n. 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.
3. n. The navigable part of a river.
We were careful to keep our boat in the channel.
4. n. A narrow body of water between two land masses.
The English Channel lies between France and England.
5. n. That through which anything passes; means of conveying or transmitting.
The news was conveyed to us by different channels.
6. n. A gutter; a groove, as in a fluted column.
7. n. (electronics) A connection between initiating and terminating nodes of a circuit.
The guard-rail provided the channel between the downed wire and the tree.
8. n. (electronics) The narrow conducting portion of a MOSFET transistor.
9. n. (communication) The part that connects a data source to a data sink.
A channel stretches between them.
10. n. (communication) A path for conveying electrical or electromagnetic signals, usually distinguished from other parallel paths.
We are using one of the 24 channels.
11. n. (communication) A single path provided by a transmission medium via physical separation, such as by multipair cable.
The channel is created by bonding the signals from these four pairs.
12. n. (communication) A single path provided by a transmission medium via spectral or protocol separation, such as by frequency or time-division multiplexing.
Their call is being carried on channel 6 of the T-1 line.
13. n. (broadcasting) A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies, usually in conjunction with a predetermined letter, number, or codeword, and allocated by international agreement.
KNDD is the channel at 107.7 MHz in Seattle.
14. n. (broadcasting) A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies used for transmitting television.
NBC is on channel 11 in San Jose.
15. n. (storage) The portion of a storage medium, such as a track or a band, that is accessible to a given reading or writing station or head.
This chip in this disk drive is the channel device.
16. n. (technic) The way in a turbine pump where the pressure is built up.
The liquid is pressurized in the lateral channel.
17. n. (business, marketing) A distribution channel
18. n. (Internet) A particular area for conversations on an IRC network, analogous to a chatroom and often dedicated to a specific topic.
19. n. (Internet) An obsolete means of delivering up-to-date Internet content.
20. n. A psychic or medium who temporarily takes on the personality of somebody else.
21. v. To make or cut a channel or groove in.
22. v. To direct or guide along a desired course.
We will channel the traffic to the left with these cones.
23. v. (transitive, of a spirit, as of a dead person) To serve as a medium for.
She was channeling the spirit of her late husband, Seth.
24. v. 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.
25. n. (nautical) The wale of a sailing ship which projects beyond the gunwale and to which the shrouds attach via the chains. One of the flat ledges of heavy plank bolted edgewise to the outside of a vessel
of
1. prep. Expressing distance or motion.
2. prep. (now obsolete, or dialectal) From (of distance, direction), "off".
3. prep. (obsolete except in phrases) Since, from (a given time, earlier state etc.).
4. prep. From, away from (a position, number, distance etc.).
There are no shops within twenty miles of the cottage.
5. prep. (North America, Scotland, Ireland) Before (the hour); to.
What's the time? / Nearly a quarter of three.
6. prep. Expressing separation.
7. prep. (Indicating removal, absence or separation, with the action indicated by a transitive verb and the quality or substance by a grammatical object.)
Finally she was relieved of the burden of caring for her sick husband.
8. prep. (Indicating removal, absence or separation, with resulting state indicated by an adjective.)
He seemed devoid of human feelings.
9. prep. (obsolete) (Indicating removal, absence or separation, construed with an intransitive verb.)
10. prep. Expressing origin.
11. prep. (Indicating an ancestral source or origin of descent.)
The word is believed to be of Japanese origin.
12. prep. (Indicating a (non-physical) source of action or emotion; introducing a cause, instigation); from, out of, as an expression of.
The invention was born of necessity.
13. prep. (following an intransitive verb) (Indicates the source or cause of the verb.)
It is said that she died of a broken heart.
14. prep. (following an adjective) (Indicates the subject or cause of the adjective.)
I am tired of all this nonsense.
15. prep. Expressing agency.
16. prep. (following a passive verb) (Indicates the agent (for most verbs, now usually expressed with by).)
I am not particularly enamoured of this idea.
17. prep. (Used to introduce the "subjective genitive"; following a noun to form the head of a postmodifying noun phrase) (see also 'Possession' senses below).
The contract can be terminated at any time with the agreement of both parties.
18. prep. (following an adjective) (Used to indicate the agent of something described by the adjective.)
It was very brave of you to speak out like that.
19. prep. Expressing composition, substance.
20. prep. (after a verb expressing construction, making etc.) (Used to indicate the material or substance used.)
Many 'corks' are now actually made of plastic.
21. prep. (directly following a noun) (Used to indicate the material of the just-mentioned object.)
She wore a dress of silk.
22. prep. (Indicating the composition of a given collective or quantitative noun.)
What a lot of nonsense!
23. prep. (Used to link a given class of things with a specific example of that class.)
Welcome to the historic town of Harwich.
24. prep. (Links two nouns in near-apposition, with the first qualifying the second); "which is also".
I'm not driving this wreck of a car.
25. prep. Introducing subject matter.
26. prep. (Links an intransitive verb, or a transitive verb and its subject (especially verbs to do with thinking, feeling, expressing etc.), with its subject-ma
I'm always thinking of you.
27. prep. (following a noun (now chiefly nouns of knowledge, communication etc.)) (Introduces its subject matter); about, concerning.
He told us the story of his journey to India.
28. prep. (following an adjective) (Introduces its subject matter.)
This behaviour is typical of teenagers.
29. prep. Having partitive effect.
30. prep. (following a number or other quantitive word) (Introduces the whole for which is indicated only the specified part or segment); "from among".
Most of these apples are rotten.
31. prep. (following a noun) (Indicates a given part.)
32. prep. (now archaic, literary, with preceding partitive word assumed, or as a predicate after to be) Some, an amount of, one of.
On the whole, they seem to be of the decent sort.
33. prep. (Links to a genitive noun or possessive pronoun, with partitive effect (though now often merged with possessive senses, below).)
He is a friend of mine.
34. prep. Expressing possession.
35. prep. Belonging to, existing in, or taking place in a given location, place or time. Compare "origin" senses, above.
He was perhaps the most famous scientist of the twentieth century.
36. prep. Belonging to (a place) through having title, ownership or control over it.
The owner of the nightclub was arrested.
37. prep. Belonging to (someone or something) as something they possess or have as a characteristic; (the "possessive genitive". (With abstract nouns, this inter
Keep the handle of the saucepan away from the flames.
38. prep. Forming the "objective genitive".
39. prep. (Follows an agent noun, verbal noun or noun of action.)
She had a profound distrust of the police.
40. prep. Expressing qualities or characteristics.
41. prep. (now archaic, or literary) (Links an adjective with a noun or noun phrase to form a quasi-adverbial qualifier); in respect to, as regards.
My companion seemed affable and easy of manner.
42. prep. (Indicates a quality or characteristic); "characterized by".
Pooh was said to be a bear of very little brain.
43. prep. (Indicates quantity, age, price, etc.)
We have been paying interest at a rate of 10%.
44. prep. (US, informal considered incorrect by some) (Used to link singular indefinite nouns (preceded by the indefinite article) and attributive adjectives mod
It's not that big of a deal.
45. prep. Expressing a point in time.
46. prep. (chiefly regional) During the course of (a set period of time, day of the week etc.), now specifically with implied repetition or regularity.
Of an evening, we would often go for a stroll along the river.
47. prep. (UK dialectal, chiefly in negative constructions) For (a given length of time).
I've not tekken her out of a goodly long while.
48. prep. (after a noun) (Indicates duration of a state, activity etc.)
After a delay of three hours, the plane finally took off.
audio
1. adj. Focused on audible sound, as opposed to sight.
2. n. A sound, or a sound signal
As
1. n. plural of A
She went from getting Cs and Ds to earning straight As.
2. adv. To such an extent or degree.
You’re not as tall as I am.
It's not as well made, but it's twice as expensive.
3. adv. In the manner or role specified.
The kidnappers released him as agreed.
The parties were seen as agreeing on a range of issues.
He was never seen as the boss, but rather as a friend.
4. adv. (dated) For example (compare such as).
5. conj. In the same way that; according to what.
Do as I say!
I'm under a lot of pressure, as you know.
As you wish, my lord!
6. conj. At the same instant that; when.
As I came in, she flew.
7. conj. At the same time that; while.
He sleeps as the rain falls.
8. conj. Varying through time in the same proportion that.
As my fear grew, so did my legs become heavy.
9. conj. Being that, considering that, because, since.
As it’s too late, I quit.
10. conj. Introducing a basis of comparison, after as, so, or a comparison of equality.
She's twice as strong as I was two years ago.
It's not so complicated as I expected.
11. conj. (dated) Introducing a comparison with a hypothetical state (+ subjunctive); ‘as though’, ‘as if’.
12. conj. Introducing a comparison with a hypothetical state with the verb elided; as if, as though.
13. conj. (now England, US, regional) Functioning as a relative conjunction; that.
14. conj. Expressing concession; though.
15. conj. (obsolete, rare) Than.
16. prep. Introducing a basis of comparison, with an object in the objective case.
You are not as tall as me.
They're big as houses.
17. prep. In the role of.
What is your opinion as a parent?
18. n. (unit of weight) A libra.
19. n. Any of several coins of Rome, coined in bronze or later copper; or the equivalent value.
20. n. plural of a
opposed
1. adj. Acting in opposition; opposing.
2. adj. Being, of having an opponent; not unopposed.
3. v. simple past tense and past participle of oppose
oppose
1. v. To attempt to stop the progression of; to resist or antagonize by physical means, or by arguments, etc.; to contend against; to confront; to resist; to withstand.
to oppose the king in battle; to oppose a bill in Congress
There is still time to oppose this plan.
2. v. To object to.
Many religious leaders oppose cloning humans.
3. v. To present or set up in opposition; to pose.
They are opposed to any form of hierarchy.
4. v. To place in front of, or over against; to set opposite; to exhibit.
to
1. part. A particle used for marking the following verb as an infinitive.
I want to leave.
He asked me what to do.
I don’t know how to say it.
I have places to go and people to see.
2. part. As above, with the verb implied.
"Did you visit the museum?" "I wanted to, but it was closed.".
If he hasn't read it yet, he ought to.
3. part. A particle used to create phrasal verbs.
I have to do laundry today.
4. prep. Indicating destination: In the direction of, and arriving at.
We are walking to the shop.
5. prep. Used to indicate purpose.
He devoted himself to education.
They drank to his health.
6. prep. Used to indicate result of action.
His face was beaten to a pulp.
7. prep. Used after an adjective to indicate its application.
similar to ..., relevant to ..., pertinent to ..., I was nice to him, he was cruel to her, I am used to walking.
8. prep. (obsolete,) As a.
With God to friend (with God as a friend); with The Devil to fiend (with the Devil as a foe); lambs slaughtered to lake (lambs slaughtered as a sacrifice); t
9. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate a ratio or comparison.
one to one = 1:1
ten to one = 10:1.
I have ten dollars to your four.
10. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate that the preceding term is to be raised to the power of the following value; indicates exponentiation.
Three squared or three to the second power is nine.
Three to the power of two is nine.
Three to the second is nine.
11. prep. Used to indicate the indirect object.
I gave the book to him.
12. prep. (time) Preceding.
ten to ten = 9:50; We're going to leave at ten to (the hour).
13. prep. Used to describe what something consists of or contains.
Anyone could do this job; there's nothing to it.
There's a lot of sense to what he says.
14. prep. (Canada, UK, Newfoundland, West Midlands) At.
Stay where you're to and I'll come find you, b'y.
15. adv. Toward a closed, touching or engaging position.
Please push the door to.
16. adv. (nautical) Into the wind.
17. adv. misspelling of too
multiplexed
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of multiplex
multiplex
1. adj. Comprising several interleaved parts.
2. adj. (botany) Having petals lying in folds over each other.
3. adj. (medicine) Having multiple members with a particular condition.
4. n. A building or a place where several activities occur in multiple units concurrently or different times.
5. n. (by extension) A large cinema complex comprising many (typically more than five, and often over ten) movie theatres or houses.
6. n. (juggling) throwing motion where more than one ball is thrown with one hand at the same time.
7. v. To interleave several activities
8. v. (computing) To combine several signals into a single signal
9. v. (juggling) To make a multiplex throw.
stereo
1. n. A system of recording or reproducing sound that uses two channels, each playing a portion of the original sound in such a way as to create the illusion of locating the sound at a particular position
2. n. (by extension) Any object or device equipped with audio components that reproduces sound in stereo, such as a stereo console in the home.
He liked to listen to classical music on his stereo.
3. n. (printing, colloquial) A stereotype.
4. adj. Of sound, music, etc, recorded in stereo.
5. adj. Of a pair of images: one depicting the view as would be seen from one eye and the other from the other eye, so that when viewed appropriately, they combine to give an impression of three dimensions.
6. v. To create a stereophotographic image of.
or
1. conj. Connects at least two alternative words, phrases, clauses, sentences, etc. each of which could make a passage true. In English, this is the "inclusive or." The "exclusive or" is formed by "either(...)
In Ohio, anyone under the age of 18 who wants a tattoo or body piercing needs the consent of a parent or guardian.
He might get cancer, or be hit by a bus, or God knows what.
2. conj. (logic) An operator denoting the disjunction of two propositions or truth values. There are two forms, the inclusive or and the exclusive or.
3. conj. Counts the elements before and after as two possibilities.
4. conj. Otherwise (a consequence of the condition that the previous is false).
It's raining! Come inside or you'll catch a cold!
5. conj. Connects two equivalent names.
The country Myanmar, or Burma
6. n. (logic, electronics) alternative form of OR
7. n. (tincture) The gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms.
8. adj. (tincture) Of gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms.
9. adv. (obsolete) Early (on).
10. adv. (obsolete) Earlier, previously.
11. prep. (now archaic, or dialect) Before; ere.
quadraphonic
1. adj. (of a sound system) Employing four independent channels or speakers.
or
1. conj. Connects at least two alternative words, phrases, clauses, sentences, etc. each of which could make a passage true. In English, this is the "inclusive or." The "exclusive or" is formed by "either(...)
In Ohio, anyone under the age of 18 who wants a tattoo or body piercing needs the consent of a parent or guardian.
He might get cancer, or be hit by a bus, or God knows what.
2. conj. (logic) An operator denoting the disjunction of two propositions or truth values. There are two forms, the inclusive or and the exclusive or.
3. conj. Counts the elements before and after as two possibilities.
4. conj. Otherwise (a consequence of the condition that the previous is false).
It's raining! Come inside or you'll catch a cold!
5. conj. Connects two equivalent names.
The country Myanmar, or Burma
6. n. (logic, electronics) alternative form of OR
7. n. (tincture) The gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms.
8. adj. (tincture) Of gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms.
9. adv. (obsolete) Early (on).
10. adv. (obsolete) Earlier, previously.
11. prep. (now archaic, or dialect) Before; ere.
other
1. adj. See other (determiner) below
2. adj. second.
I get paid every other week.
3. adj. Alien.
4. adj. Different.
5. adj. (obsolete) Left, as opposed to right.
6. n. An other one, more often rendered as another.
I'm afraid little Robbie does not always play well with others.
7. n. The other one; the second of two.
One boat is not better than the other.
8. det. Not the one or ones previously referred to.
Other people would do it differently.
9. adv. Apart from; in the phrase "other than".
Other than that, I'm fine.
10. adv. (obsolete) Otherwise.
It shall none other be. — Chaucer.
If you think other. — Shakespeare.
11. v. To regard, label or treat as an "other", as not part of the same group; to view as different and alien.
12. v. To treat as different or separate; segregate; ostracise.
multi
1. n. (informal, paleontology) A multituberculate.
2. n. (informal) Neolamprologus multifasciatus (small shell-dwelling cichlid endemic to Lake Tanganyika, popular as aquarium fish)
channel
1. n. The physical confine of a river or slough, consisting of a bed and banks.
The water coming out of the waterwheel created a standing wave in the channel.
2. n. 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.
3. n. The navigable part of a river.
We were careful to keep our boat in the channel.
4. n. A narrow body of water between two land masses.
The English Channel lies between France and England.
5. n. That through which anything passes; means of conveying or transmitting.
The news was conveyed to us by different channels.
6. n. A gutter; a groove, as in a fluted column.
7. n. (electronics) A connection between initiating and terminating nodes of a circuit.
The guard-rail provided the channel between the downed wire and the tree.
8. n. (electronics) The narrow conducting portion of a MOSFET transistor.
9. n. (communication) The part that connects a data source to a data sink.
A channel stretches between them.
10. n. (communication) A path for conveying electrical or electromagnetic signals, usually distinguished from other parallel paths.
We are using one of the 24 channels.
11. n. (communication) A single path provided by a transmission medium via physical separation, such as by multipair cable.
The channel is created by bonding the signals from these four pairs.
12. n. (communication) A single path provided by a transmission medium via spectral or protocol separation, such as by frequency or time-division multiplexing.
Their call is being carried on channel 6 of the T-1 line.
13. n. (broadcasting) A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies, usually in conjunction with a predetermined letter, number, or codeword, and allocated by international agreement.
KNDD is the channel at 107.7 MHz in Seattle.
14. n. (broadcasting) A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies used for transmitting television.
NBC is on channel 11 in San Jose.
15. n. (storage) The portion of a storage medium, such as a track or a band, that is accessible to a given reading or writing station or head.
This chip in this disk drive is the channel device.
16. n. (technic) The way in a turbine pump where the pressure is built up.
The liquid is pressurized in the lateral channel.
17. n. (business, marketing) A distribution channel
18. n. (Internet) A particular area for conversations on an IRC network, analogous to a chatroom and often dedicated to a specific topic.
19. n. (Internet) An obsolete means of delivering up-to-date Internet content.
20. n. A psychic or medium who temporarily takes on the personality of somebody else.
21. v. To make or cut a channel or groove in.
22. v. To direct or guide along a desired course.
We will channel the traffic to the left with these cones.
23. v. (transitive, of a spirit, as of a dead person) To serve as a medium for.
She was channeling the spirit of her late husband, Seth.
24. v. 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.
25. n. (nautical) The wale of a sailing ship which projects beyond the gunwale and to which the shrouds attach via the chains. One of the flat ledges of heavy plank bolted edgewise to the outside of a vessel
sound
1. adj. Healthy.
He was safe and sound.
In horse management a sound horse is one with no health problems that might affect its suitability for its intended work.
2. adj. Complete, solid, or secure.
Fred assured me the floorboards were sound.
3. adj. (mathematics, logic) Having the property of soundness.
4. adj. (UK, slang) Good; acceptable; decent.
"How are you?" - "I'm sound.".
That's a sound track you're playing.
See that man over there? He's sound. You should get to know him.
5. adj. (of sleep) Quiet and deep. Sound asleep means sleeping peacefully, often deeply.
Her sleep was sound.
6. adj. Heavy; laid on with force.
a sound beating
7. adj. Founded in law; legal; valid; not defective.
a sound title to land
8. adv. Soundly.
9. interj. (UK, slang) Yes; used to show agreement or understanding, generally without much enthusiasm.
- I found my jacket.- Sound.
10. n. A sensation perceived by the ear caused by the vibration of air or some other medium.
He turned when he heard the sound of footsteps behind him. Nobody made a sound.
11. n. A vibration capable of causing such sensations.
12. n. (music) A distinctive style and sonority of a particular musician, orchestra etc
13. n. Noise without meaning; empty noise.
14. n. earshot, Earshot, distance within which a certain noise may be heard.
Stay within the sound of my voice.
15. v. (intransitive) To produce a sound.
When the horn sounds, take cover.
16. v. (copulative) To convey an impression by one's sound.
He sounded good when we last spoke.
That story sounds like a pack of lies!
17. v. (intransitive) To be conveyed in sound; to be spread or published; to convey intelligence by sound.
18. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To resound.
19. v. (intransitive, legal, often, with in) To arise or to be recognizable as arising in or from a particular area of law.
20. v. To cause to produce a sound.
Sound the alarm!
He sounds the instrument.
21. v. (transitive, phonetics, of a vowel or consonant) To pronounce.
The "e" in "house" isn't sounded.
22. n. (geography) A long narrow inlet, or a strait between the mainland and an island; also, a strait connecting two seas, or connecting a sea or lake with the ocean.
Puget Sound; Owen Sound
23. n. The air bladder of a fish.
Cod sounds are an esteemed article of food.
24. n. A cuttlefish.
25. v. (intransitive) Dive downwards, used of a whale.
The whale sounded and eight hundred feet of heavy line streaked out of the line tub before he ended his dive.
26. v. To ascertain, or try to ascertain, the thoughts, motives, and purposes of (a person); to examine; to try; to test; to probe.
When I sounded him, he appeared to favor the proposed deal.
27. v. Test; ascertain the depth of water with a sounding line or other device.
Mariners on sailing ships would sound the depth of the water with a weighted rope.
28. v. (medicine) To examine with the instrument called a sound or sonde, or by auscultation or percussion.
to sound a patient, or the bladder or urethra
29. n. (medicine) An instrument for probing or dilating; a sonde.
30. n. A long, thin probe for sounding body cavities or canals such as the urethra.

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