Channel

verb

'ʧænəl

Noun

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
“poison is released through a channel in the snake's fangs”
Similar:Canal Duct
Type of:PassagewayPassage
a path over which electrical signals can pass
“a channel is typically what you rent from a telephone company”
Type of:Transmission
(often plural) a means of communication or access
“it must go through official channels”
Similar:Line
Type of:CommunicatingCommunication
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”
Type of:Marketing
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”
Type of:Passage
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”
Type of:Water
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)
Similar:Groove
Type of:DepressionImpressionImprint

direct the flow of
“channel information towards a broad audience”
Type of:ChannelisePointChannelize
transmit or serve as the medium for transmission
Similar:Carry Conduct Convey Impart Transmit
Type of:BringConveyTake
send from one person or place to another
Similar:ChanneliseChannelizeTransfer Transmit Transport
Type of:MoveDisplace