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channel
('/tS//&/n/-/l )

noun (n)

  • a path over which electrical signals can pass(noun.communication)
    Example:
    A channel is typically what you rent from a telephone company.
    Synonym:
    transmission channel
    source: wordnet30
  • a passage for water (or other fluids) to flow through(noun.artifact)
    Example:
    The fields were crossed with irrigation channels.
    Gutters carried off the rainwater into a series of channels under the street.
    source: wordnet30
  • 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)(noun.shape)
    Synonym:
    groove
    source: wordnet30
  • 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(noun.object)
    Example:
    The ship went aground in the channel.
    source: wordnet30
  • (often plural) a means of communication or access(noun.communication)
    Example:
    It must go through official channels.
    Synonym:
    communication channel, line
    source: wordnet30
  • a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance(noun.body)
    Example:
    Poison is released through a channel in the snake's fangs.
    Synonym:
    canal, duct, epithelial duct
    source: wordnet30
  • a television station and its programs(noun.artifact)
    Example:
    A satellite TV channel.
    Surfing through the channels.
    They offer more than one hundred channels.
    Synonym:
    television channel, tv channel
    source: wordnet30
  • a way of selling a company's product either directly or via distributors(noun.act)
    Example:
    Possible distribution channels are wholesalers or small retailers or retail chains or direct mailers or your own stores.
    Synonym:
    distribution channel
    source: wordnet30
  • The hollow bed where a stream of water runs or may run.(noun)
    source: webster1913

verb (v)

  • transmit or serve as the medium for transmission(verb.motion)
    Synonym:
    carry, conduct, convey, impart, transmit
    source: wordnet30
  • direct the flow of(verb.motion)
    Example:
    Channel information towards a broad audience.
    Synonym:
    canalise, canalize
    source: wordnet30
  • send from one person or place to another(verb.contact)
    Synonym:
    channelise, channelize, transfer, transmit, transport
    source: wordnet30
  • To form a channel in; to cut or wear a channel or channels in; to groove.(verb)
    source: webster1913
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