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
    

• a television station and its programs
  • a satellite TV channel
    
  • surfing through the channels
    
  • they offer more than one hundred channels
    

• 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
    

• (often plural) a means of communication or access
  • it must go through official channels
    
  • lines of communication were set up between the two firms
    

• 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
    

• 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)

• 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 path over which electrical signals can pass
  • a channel is typically what you rent from a telephone company
    

Verb

• send from one person or place to another
  • transmit a message
    

• direct the flow of
  • channel information towards a broad audience
    

• transmit or serve as the medium for transmission
  • Sound carries well over water
    
  • The airwaves carry the sound
    
  • Many metals conduct heat
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  distribution channel , television channel , TV channel , duct , epithelial duct , canal , communication channel , line , groove , transmission channel , transmit , transfer , transport , channelize , channelise , canalize , canalise , impart , conduct , convey , carry