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1. A path over which electrical signals can pass
   "a channel is typically what you rent from a telephone company";
   - transmission channel
    
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"
    
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)
   - groove
    
4. 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"
    
5. (often plural) a means of communication or access
   "it must go through official channels";
   - communication channel, line
    
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";
   - duct, epithelial duct, canal
    
7. 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
    
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";
   - distribution channel

1. Serve as the medium for transmission, allow movement of
   "Many metals channel heat";
   - impart, conduct, transmit, convey, carry
    
2. Direct the flow of
   "channel information towards a broad audience";
   - canalize, canalise [Brit]
    
3. Send from one person or place to another
   "channel a message";
   - transmit, transfer, transport, channelize, channelise [Brit]

Derived forms: channelling, channelled, channels, channeled, channeling

Type of: body of water, bring, channelise [Brit], channelize, communicating, communication, convey, depression, direct, displace, guide, head, impression, imprint, maneuver [US], manoeuver [non-standard], manoeuvre [Brit, Cdn], marketing, move, passage, passageway, point, steer, take, television station, transmission, TV station, water

Encyclopedia: Channel Channel, California Channel, Newfoundland and Labrador