bureaucratic procedure
red tape | needlessly timeonsuming procedure |
distribution channel
channel | a way of selling a company's product either directly or via distributors, possible distribution channels are wholesalers or small retailers or retail chains or direct mailers or your own stores |
channel catfish
channel cat
Ictalurus punctatus | freshwater food fish common throughout central United States |
blue catfish
blue cat
blue channel catfish
blue channel cat | a large catfish of the Mississippi valley |
red drum
channel bass
redfish Sciaenops ocellatus | large edible fish found off coast of United States from Massachusetts to Mexico |
| adhesive tape | tape coated with adhesive |
| cassette tape | a cassette that contains magnetic tape |
cellulose tape
Scotch tape
Sellotape | transparent or semitransparent adhesive tape (trade names Scotch tape and Sellotape) used for sealing or attaching or mending |
| channel | a passage for water (or other fluids) to flow through, the fields were crossed with irrigation channels, gutters carried off the rainwater into a series of channels under the street |
channel television channel
TV channel | a television station and its programs, a satellite TV channel, surfing through the channels, they offer more than one hundred channels |
chunnel
Channel Tunnel | the railroad tunnel between France and England under the English Channel |
| duct tape | a wide silvery adhesive tape intended to seal joints in sheet metal duct work but having many other uses, duct tape holds the world together |
friction tape
insulating tape | a wateresistant adhesive tape used to insulate exposed electrical conductors |
magnetic tape
mag tape
tape | memory device consisting of a long thin plastic strip coated with iron oxide, used to record audio or video signals or to store computer information, he took along a dozen tapes to record the interview |
masking tape
masking paper | adhesive tape used to cover the part of a surface that should not be painted |
| tape | a long thin piece of cloth or paper as used for binding or fastening, he used a piece of tape for a belt, he wrapped a tape around the package |
tape tape recording
taping | a recording made on magnetic tape, the several recordings were combined on a master tape |
tape tapeline
tape measure | measuring instrument consisting of a narrow strip (cloth or metal) marked in inches or centimeters and used for measuring lengths, the carpenter should have used his tape measure |
| tape cartridge | a cartridge containing magnetic tape, for use with audio or video recorders or computer systems |
| tape deck | electronic equipment for making or playing magnetic tapes (but without amplifiers or speakers), a component in an audio system |
tape drive
tape transport
transport | a mechanism that transports magnetic tape across the read
write heads of a tape playback
recorder |
| tape player | electronic equipment for playing back magnetic tapes |
tape recorder
tape machine | a magnetic recorder using magnetic tape |
duct
epithelial duct
canal
channel | a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance, the tear duct was obstructed, the alimentary canal, poison is released through a channel in the snake's fangs |
channel
transmission channel | a path over which electrical signals can pass, a channel is typically what you rent from a telephone company |
channel communication channel
line | (often plural) a means of communication or access, it must go through official channels, lines of communication were set up between the two firms |
| back channel | an alternative to the regular channels of communication that is used when agreements must be made secretly (especially in diplomacy or government), they negotiated via a back channel |
| Channel Islands National Park | a national park in California featuring sea birds and marine life |
| tape | the finishing line for a foot race, he broke the tape in record time |
| Channel Island | any of a group of British islands in the English Channel off the northern coast of France |
| Bristol Channel | an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean between southern Wales and southwestern England |
| channel | a deep and relatively narrow body of water (as in a river or a harbor or a strait linking two larger bodies) that allows the best passage for vessels, the ship went aground in the channel |
| English Channel | an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that forms a channel between France and Britain |
| Mozambique Channel | an arm of the Indian Ocean between Madagascar and southeastern Africa |
| North Channel | a strait between Northern Ireland and Scotland that connects the Atlantic Ocean and the Irish Sea |
tape grass
eelgrass wild celery Vallisneria spiralis | submerged aquatic plant with ribbonlike leaves, Old World and Australia |
groove
channel | a long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process (such as erosion) or by a tool (as e.g. a groove in a phonograph record) |
| paper tape | a long narrow strip of paper |
| ticker tape | a continuous thin ribbon of paper on which stock quotes are written |
| channel capacity | the maximum data rate that can be attained over a given channel |
surf
channel-surf | switch channels, on television |
| record tape | register electronically, They recorded her singing |
| tape record | record with a tape recorder |
videotape
tape | record on videotape |
| tape | fasten or attach with tape, tape the shipping label to the box |
scotch tape
sellotape | fasten or attach with sellotape, The hotel manager scotch taped a note to the guest's door |
transmit
transfer
transport channel
channelize
channelise | send from one person or place to another, transmit a message |
channel
canalize
canalise | direct the flow of, channel information towards a broad audience |
impart
conduct
transmit
convey carry channel | transmit or serve as the medium for transmission, Sound carries well over water, The airwaves carry the sound, Many metals conduct heat |
stereophonic
stereo
two-channel | designating sound transmission from two sources through two channels |