channel: [13] Channel and canal are ultimately the same word. Their common ancestor was Latin canālis ‘groove, channel’, a derivative of canna ‘pipe’ (source of English cane). This passed into Old French as chanel, which English took over as channel. But then in the 15th century English acquired canal, either directly from Latin, or from French canal, which was itself remodelled on the Latin form – it is not clear which. => canal, cane
channel (v.)
1590s, "to wear channels in," from channel (n.). Meaning "convey in a channel" is from 1640s. Related: Channeled; channeling.
channel (n.)
early 14c., "bed of running water," from Old French chanel "bed of a waterway; tube, pipe, gutter," from Latin canalis "groove, channel, waterpipe" (see canal). Given a broader, figurative sense 1530s (of information, commerce, etc.); meaning "circuit for telegraph communication" (1848) probably led to that of "band of frequency for radio or TV signals" (1928).
English Channel is from 1825; the older name was British Channel (by 1730). John of Trevisa's Middle English translation of the encyclopedia De Proprietatibus Rerum (c. 1398) has frensshe see for "English Channel." The Channel Islands are the French ?les Anglo-Normandes.
雙語例句
1. The series goes out at 10.30pm, Fridays, on Channel 4.
這部連續劇每周五晚上10點30分在第4頻道播出。
來自柯林斯例句
2. She had heard the news-flash on a TV channel's news update.
她在一家電視臺的新聞快訊中聽到了這則簡明新聞。
來自柯林斯例句
3. The Channel Tunnel project is the biggest civil engineering project in Europe.
英吉利海峽隧道是歐洲最大的土木工程。
來自柯林斯例句
4. Channel 4 arrived and somehow created a different role for television.
第四頻道開播了，它在某種程度上為電視創造了一個不同的角色。
來自柯林斯例句
5. The Channel tunnel was due to open towards the end of 1993.