channeling

Verb

channel (third-person singular simple present channels, present participle (US) channeling or (UK) channelling, simple past and past participle (US) channeled or (UK) channelled)

1. (transitive) To make or cut a channel or groove in.
2. (transitive) To direct or guide along a desired course.
   • We will channel the traffic to the left with these cones.
3. (transitive) To serve as a medium for.
   • She was channeling the spirit of her late husband, Seth.
4. (transitive) To follow as a model, especially in a performance.
   • He was trying to channel President Reagan, but the audience wasn't buying it.

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Noun

channelling (plural channellings)

1. A channel or furrow.
   • The course of these channellings or furrows is southwest and northeast; they cross the present channel of the river obliquely, and appear upon the north as well as the south side.1842, William Williams Mather, Ebenezer Emmons, Lardner Vanuxem, Geology of New York
2. The act by which something is channelled.
   • The medium claimed to have taken part in channellings of the spirits of the dead.