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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

... with his uncle as long as he could remember. He had never known his father or mother, and his uncle never spoke of them. In case Frank asked any question concerning his parents, Mr. Dent would manage to turn the conversation into some other channel. ...

— Frank Roscoe's Secret • Allen Chapman

... a single man, and he an officer and such an officer as ye never set eyes on be fore, except, mayhap, in the fashion that a cat looks upon a king? I should like to see the man, among ye all, who can handle a heavy ship, in a narrow channel, as I have seen master Harry here handle ...

— The Red Rover • James Fenimore Cooper

... friends—as necessary as their transaction of business together in a gipsy way at untimely hours of the morning and evening, and in rushes and snatches. There were friends who seemed to be always coming and going across the Channel, on errands about the Bourse, and Greek and Spanish and India and Mexican and par and premium and discount and three quarters and seven eighths. There were other friends who seemed to be always lolling ...

— Our Mutual Friend • Charles Dickens

... the people had nothing to complain of, they would not listen to the conspirators. But there, I know we shall never agree about this. When the war is over you must cross the channel, and ...

— The Cornet of Horse - A Tale of Marlborough's Wars • G. A. Henty

... selected, and despatched to Japan as instructors in the Yeddo Naval College. Amongst these officers, it may be interesting to state, was Admiral Sir A. K. Wilson, V.C., G.C.B., the late Commander-in-Chief of the Channel Fleet. In the year 1873 a number of other naval officers were sent out from England, the previous staff having been withdrawn on the outbreak of the Civil War. This staff was in charge of Admiral Sir ...

— The Empire of the East • H. B. Montgomery

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