channel

• vt. 導く、開く；河道を形成する
• n. 通路；水路；海峡

語源的にはcane, canalと同じ。

channel

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.

1. The series goes out at 10.30 pm、Fridays，on Channel 4.

この連続ドラマは毎週金曜日の夜10時30分に第4チャンネルで放送されている。

2.She had heard the news-flash on a TV channel 's news update.

彼女はあるテレビ局のニュース速報でこの簡明なニュースを聞いた。

3.The Channel Tunnel project is the biggest civil engineering project in Europe.

イギリス海峡トンネルはヨーロッパ最大の土木工事である。

4. Channel 4 arrived and somehow created a different role for television.

第4チャンネルがスタートしました。これはある程度テレビのために異なる役割を果たしています。

5.The Channel tunnel was due to open towards the end of 1993.

海峡トンネルは1993年末までに開通する予定です。