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channel

English

🔊 a passage for water (or other fluids) to flow through
“the fields were crossed with irrigation channels”
🔊 a television station and its programs
“a satellite TV channel”
🔊 a path over which electrical signals can pass
“a channel is typically what you rent from a telephone company”
🔊 (often plural) a means of communication or access
“it must go through official channels”
🔊 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 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 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 bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance
“the tear duct was obstructed”
🔊 direct the flow of
“channel information towards a broad audience”
🔊 send from one person or place to another
“transmit a message”
🔊 transmit or serve as the medium for transmission
“Sound carries well over water”