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Channel

noun

1.

A path over which electrical signals can pass. Synonym: transmission channel.

2.

A passage for water (or other fluids) to flow through. "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). Synonym: groove.

4.

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.

5.

(often plural) a means of communication or access. Synonyms: communication channel, line. "Lines of communication were set up between the two firms"

6.

A bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance. Synonyms: canal, duct, epithelial duct. "The alimentary canal" , "Poison is released through a channel in the snake's fangs"

7.

A television station and its programs. Synonyms: television channel, TV channel. "Surfing through the channels" , "They offer more than one hundred channels"

8.

A way of selling a company's product either directly or via distributors. Synonym: distribution channel.

verb

(past & past part. channeled or channelled; pres. part. channeling or channelling)

1.

Transmit or serve as the medium for transmission. Synonyms: carry, conduct, convey, impart, transmit. "The airwaves carry the sound" , "Many metals conduct heat"

2.

Direct the flow of. Synonyms: canalise, canalize.

3.

Send from one person or place to another. Synonyms: channelise, channelize, transfer, transmit, transport.

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"Channel" Quotes from Famous Books

... England that are bound up for the pocket, I did offer to present my Lord with them, which he accepted; and so I will send them him. I find an order come for the getting some fire-ships presently to annoy the Dutch, who are in the King's Channel, ...

— The Diary of Samuel Pepys • Samuel Pepys

... success of their designs. I am, by your help, taking a precaution to ensure that I shall not die unavenged. They must be taught that murder cannot be committed in this country with impunity. And I am very careful not to trust myself out of England. If I crossed the Channel it would be to go to my certain death. Otherwise I should have gone myself to see Sir Arthur Byrne. But in this island the man who kills even so unpopular a person as a member of the House of Lords does not get off with a few years' imprisonment, as he may in some of the continental countries; ...

— The Ashiel mystery - A Detective Story • Mrs. Charles Bryce

... wearies his thoughts, by multiplying in his mind that first large idea: but yet by that he comes no nearer to the having a positive clear idea of what remains to make up a positive infinite, than the country fellow had of the water which was yet to come, and pass the channel of the river ...

— An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume I. - MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books I. and II. (of 4) • John Locke

... Aina went on, "forms a great channel through which the flood of waters caused by the melting of the southern polar snows flows swiftly toward the equator and then on toward the north until it reaches the sea basins which exist there. ...

— Edison's Conquest of Mars • Garrett Putman Serviss

... enough, was the soul that he knew slept somewhere, but had never seen until then. And the sight of it came as a shock and swept away his sophistries and ugly-woven ideas. Inclination had told him that Nature, through one channel only, would bring the mystery of hidden thought to Joan's blue eyes, and he had felt well satisfied to believe it was so; but now even the plea of Art could not excuse the thing which had grown within him of late, for experiences other than those he dreamed of had ...

— Lying Prophets • Eden Phillpotts

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