Definition of Channel
Noun: channel cha-n(u)l
- A path over which electrical signals can pass
"a channel is typically what you rent from a telephone company";
- transmission channel
- 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 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)
- groove
- A deep and relatively narrow body of water (as in a river or a harbour or a strait linking two larger bodies) that allows the best passage for vessels
"the ship went aground in the channel"
- (often plural) a means of communication or access
"it must go through official channels";
- communication channel, line
- 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";
- duct, epithelial duct, canal
- A television station and its programs
"a satellite TV channel"; "surfing through the channels"; "they offer more than one hundred channels"; "a satellite TV television channel";
- television channel, TV channel
- 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";
- distribution channel
- Serve as the medium for transmission, allow movement of
"Many metals channel heat";
- impart, conduct, transmit, convey, carry
- Direct the flow of
"channel information towards a broad audience";
- canalize, canalise [Brit]
- Send from one person or place to another
"channel a message";
- transmit, transfer, transport, channelize, channelise [Brit]
Anagrams containing the word channel