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channel - Dictionary definition and meaning for channel

CHANNEL

  • (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"

    synonyms : distribution channel

  • (noun) 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"

  • (noun) a television station and its programs

    "a satellite TV channel", "surfing through the channels", "they offer more than one hundred channels"

    synonyms : television channel , tv channel

  • (noun) 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"

    synonyms : canal , duct , epithelial duct

  • (noun) a path over which electrical signals can pass

    "a channel is typically what you rent from a telephone company"

    synonyms : transmission channel

  • (noun) (often plural) a means of communication or access

    "it must go through official channels", "lines of communication were set up between the two firms"

    synonyms : communication channel , line

  • (noun) 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"

  • (noun) 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)

    synonyms : groove

  • (verb) send from one person or place to another

    "transmit a message"

    synonyms : channelise , channelize , transfer , transmit , transport

  • (verb) direct the flow of

    "channel information towards a broad audience"

    synonyms : canalise , canalize

  • (verb) transmit or serve as the medium for transmission

    "Sound carries well over water", "The airwaves carry the sound", "Many metals conduct heat"

    synonyms : carry , conduct , convey , impart , transmit

WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.


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