channel
The hollow bed of running waters; (also) the bed of the sea or other body of water.
The natural or man-made deeper course through a reef, bar, bay, or any shallow body of water.
The navigable part of a river.
A narrow body of water between two land masses.
Something through which another thing passes; a means of conveying or transmitting.
An ion channel: pore-forming proteins located in a cell membrane that allow specific ions to pass through.
A gutter; a groove, as in a fluted column.
A structural member with a cross section shaped like a squared-off letter C.
A connection between initiating and terminating nodes of a circuit.
The narrow conducting portion of a MOSFET transistor.
Thesaurus
Sound Patterns & Rhymes
Rhymes
Words that share the same ending sound pattern
Alliteration
Words starting with the same consonant sound — used in poetry and prose to create rhythm, emphasis, and memorable phrasing (e.g. “Peter Piper picked”)
Assonance
Words sharing similar vowel sounds regardless of starting letter — creates internal melody in writing