channel

noun

  1. 1

    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

  2. 2

    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

  3. 3

    a television station and its programs

    a satellite TV channel

    surfing through the channels

  4. 4

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

    the tear duct was obstructed

    the alimentary canal

  5. 5

    a path over which electrical signals can pass

    a channel is typically what you rent from a telephone company

  6. 6

    (often plural) a means of communication or access

    it must go through official channels

    lines of communication were set up between the two firms

  7. 7

    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

  8. 8

    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)

verb

  1. 1

    send from one person or place to another

    transmit a message

  2. 2

    direct the flow of

    channel information towards a broad audience

  3. 3

    transmit or serve as the medium for transmission

    Sound carries well over water

    The airwaves carry the sound

Synonyms

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