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a path carved for things that refuse to stay put: water, signals, ambition.
means A channel is a passage or course through which something flows or travels — whether water in a riverbed, a TV broadcast on a frequency, or a route by which goods, information, or energy move from one place to another.
from From the Old French 'chanel,' itself from the Latin 'canalis' meaning a pipe, groove, or watercourse — the same root that gives us 'canal.' 'Canalis' likely derives from 'canna,' a reed or cane, the hollow tube being nature's first pipe. So the word began as something physical and watery, and only much later did we borrow it for the invisible flows of radio, television, and commerce — the riverbed reimagined for signals and ambition.
- English Channel
- swum, but it takes most over ten hours
- TV origin
- named for radio frequency bands, not water
- Coco's name
- Chanel adopted hers from a cabaret song
- Ant lesson
- colonies channel pheromones to map shortest routes
- Heart channels
- ion gates open in milliseconds to beat
english channel — body of water between uk and france, 21 miles at narrowest point
panama canal — artificial waterway connecting atlantic and pacific oceans, opened 1914
suez canal — artificial waterway connecting mediterranean and red sea, opened 1869
bbc one — british television channel broadcasting since 1936