CHANNELIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does channelize mean? 

• CHANNELIZE (verb)
  The verb CHANNELIZE has 4 senses:

1. direct the course; determine the direction of travelling

2. make a channel for; provide with a channel

3. send from one person or place to another

4. cause to form a channel

  Familiarity information: CHANNELIZE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHANNELIZE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they channelize    ... he / she / it channelizes   
Past simple: channelized   
Past participle: channelized   
-ing form: channelizing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Direct the course; determine the direction of travelling

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

channelise; channelize; direct; guide; head; maneuver; manoeuver; manoeuvre; point; steer

Hypernyms (to "channelize" is one way to...):

command; control (exercise authoritative control or power over)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "channelize"):

park (maneuver a vehicle into a parking space)

corner; tree (force a person or an animal into a position from which he cannot escape)

channel (direct the flow of)

navigate; pilot (act as the navigator in a car, plane, or vessel and plan, direct, plot the path and position of the conveyance)

conn (conduct or direct the steering of a ship or plane)

starboard (turn to the right, of helms or rudders)

stand out (steer away from shore, of ships)

navigate (direct carefully and safely)

crab (direct (an aircraft) into a crosswind)

helm (be at or take the helm of)

pull over (steer a vehicle to the side of the road)

sheer (cause to sheer)

dock (maneuver into a dock)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

Sense 2

Meaning:

Make a channel for; provide with a channel

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

channelise; channelize

Context example:

channelize the country for better transportation

Hypernyms (to "channelize" is one way to...):

build; construct; make (make by combining materials and parts)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 3

Meaning:

Send from one person or place to another

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

channel; channelise; channelize; transfer; transmit; transport

Context example:

transmit a message

Hypernyms (to "channelize" is one way to...):

displace; move (cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "channelize"):

project (transfer (ideas or principles) from one domain into another)

propagate (transmit)

translate (bring to a certain spiritual state)

release; turn (let (something) fall or spill from a container)

send; send out (to cause or order to be taken, directed, or transmitted to another place)

bring; convey; fetch; get (go or come after and bring or take back)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

Derivation:

channel (a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance)

channel (a path over which electrical signals can pass)

channel ((often plural) a means of communication or access)

channelization (management through specified channels of communication)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Cause to form a channel

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

channelise; channelize

Context example:

channelize a stream

Hypernyms (to "channelize" is one way to...):

straighten; straighten out (make straight)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

channel (a passage for water (or other fluids) to flow through)