channel
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
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.