📖 WordNook

channel

noun
  1. 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
  2. a passage for water or other fluids to flow through
    “The fields were crossed with irrigation channels.”
  3. a television station and its programs
    “a satellite TV channel”
    television channel
  4. a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance
    canalductepithelial duct
  5. a path over which electrical signals can pass
    “a channel is typically what you rent from a telephone company”
    transmission channel
  6. (often plural) a means of communication or access
    “it must go through official channels”
    line
  7. a deep and relatively narrow body of water that allows passage for vessels
    “The lost swimmer was hit by a boat in the channel.”
  8. 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
verb
  1. to send from one person or place to another
    transfer
  2. to direct the flow of
    “channel information towards a broad audience”
    canalizecanalise
  3. to transmit or serve as the medium for transmission
    carry