channel

phonetic symbol: / tʃǽnəl / 

channel - English Dictionary

[ noun ]
■ a way of selling a company's product either directly or via distributors
e.g.)
・possible distribution channels are wholesalers or small retailers or retail chains or direct mailers or your own stores
distribution channel

[ noun ]
■ a passage for water (or other fluids) to flow through
e.g.)
・the fields were crossed with irrigation channels
・gutters carried off the rainwater into a series of channels under the street

[ noun ]
■ a television station and its programs
e.g.)
・a satellite TV channel
・surfing through the channels
・they offer more than one hundred channels
television channel , tv channel

[ noun ]
■ a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance
e.g.)
・poison is released through a channel in the snake's fangs
canal , duct , epithelial duct

[ noun ]
■ a path over which electrical signals can pass
e.g.)
・a channel is typically what you rent from a telephone company
transmission channel

[ noun ]
■ (often plural) a means of communication or access
e.g.)
・it must go through official channels
communication channel , line

[ noun ]
■ 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
e.g.)
・the ship went aground in the channel

[ noun ]
■ 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 ]
■ send from one person or place to another
channelise , channelize , transfer , transmit , transport

[ verb ]
■ direct the flow of
e.g.)
・channel information towards a broad audience
canalise , canalize

[ verb ]
■ transmit or serve as the medium for transmission
carry , conduct , convey , impart , transmit

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