channel
noun
- 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
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
a television station and its programs
a satellite TV channel
surfing through the channels
- 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
a path over which electrical signals can pass
a channel is typically what you rent from a telephone company
- 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
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
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
send from one person or place to another
transmit a message
- 2
direct the flow of
channel information towards a broad audience
- 3
transmit or serve as the medium for transmission
Sound carries well over water
The airwaves carry the sound
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