Channeling
Channeling is a tricky and mysterious business. We do not confront the enchantment behind it and demand explanations. We only wish to guide the voices as best we can.
Please do not ask us why certain terms did not come up or come forward.* We cannot make terms come forward, nor can we make them be clear. Some wish to be anonymous, fade from memory. Others are actively hidden in plain sight or hidden out of sight—hidden by Ignorance who is the absolute best at hide and seek, so good in fact that we often forget to seek whatever Ignorance has hidden.
*And, be honest, do you really want to hear from every last possible or imaginable iteration of an abstract idea chiming up within one website?
Be honest.
We didn’t think so.
Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
channel (noun)1.
a) the bed where a natural stream of water runs
b) the deeper part of a river, harbor, or strait
c) a strait or narrow sea between two close landmasses
d) a means of communication or expression as
(1) a path along which information (as data or music) in the form of an electrical signal passes
(2) a fixed or official course of communication - went through established military channels with his grievances
e) a way, course, or direction of thought or action - new channels of exploration
f) a band of frequencies of sufficient width for a single radio or television communication
g) - channeler
2.
a) a usually tubular enclosed passage - conduit
b) a passage created in a selectively permeable cell membrane by a conformational in membrane proteins - change , also the proteins of such a passage - compare ion channel
3.
a long gutter, groove, or furrow
4.
a metal bar of flattened U-shaped section
transitive verb
1.
a) to form, cut, or wear a channel in
b) to make a groove in - channel a chair leg
2.
to convey or direct into or through a channel - channel his energy into useful work
3.
to serve as a or intermediary for - channeler
one of the flat ledges of heavy plank or metal bolted edgewise to the outside of a ship to increase the spread of the shrouds
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