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channel
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Noun
  • 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
  • a television station and its programs
    • a satellite TV channel
    • surfing through the channels
    • they offer more than one hundred channels
  • 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
  • (often plural) a means of communication or access
    • it must go through official channels
    • lines of communication were set up between the two firms
  • 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
  • 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)
  • 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
  • a path over which electrical signals can pass
    • a channel is typically what you rent from a telephone company
Verb
  • send from one person or place to another
    • transmit a message
  • direct the flow of
    • channel information towards a broad audience
  • transmit or serve as the medium for transmission
    • Sound carries well over water
    • The airwaves carry the sound
    • Many metals conduct heat
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