channel

(noun, verb)

noun

1. a path over which electrical signals can pass

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

Definition categories: communication, transmission

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

Definition categories: man–made, passage

3. 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 word(s): groove

Definition categories: shape, depression, impression, imprint

4. 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

Definition categories: object, water

5. (often plural) a means of communication or access

- it must go through official channels

Similar word(s): line

Definition categories: communication, communicating

6. 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 word(s): canal, duct

Definition categories: body, passage, passageway

7. a television station and its programs

- a satellite TV channel

- surfing through the channels

- they offer more than one hundred channels

Definition categories: man–made

8. 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

Definition categories: act, marketing

Sentences with channel as a noun:

- The water coming out of the waterwheel created a standing wave in the channel.

- A channel was dredged to allow ocean-going vessels to reach the city.

- We were careful to keep our boat in the channel.

- The English Channel lies between France and England.

- The news was conveyed to us by different channels.

- The guard-rail provided the channel between the downed wire and the tree.

- A channel stretches between them.

- We are using one of the 24 channels.

- The channel is created by bonding the signals from these four pairs.

- Their call is being carried on channel 6 of the T-1 line.

- KNDD is the channel at 107.7 MHz in Seattle.

- NBC is on channel 11 in San Jose.

- This chip in this disk drive is the channel device.

- The liquid is pressurized in the lateral channel.

verb

1. transmit or serve as the medium for transmission

Similar word(s): carry, conduct, convey, impart, transmit

Definition categories: motion, bring, convey, take

2. direct the flow of

- channel information towards a broad audience

Definition categories: motion, channelise, channelize, direct, guide, head, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, point, steer

3. send from one person or place to another

Similar word(s): channelise, channelize, transfer, transmit, transport

Definition categories: contact, displace, move

Sentences with channel as a verb:

- We will channel the traffic to the left with these cones.

- When it is my turn to sing karaoke, I am going to channel Ray Charles.