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CHANNEL

Definition:

1. [noun] a path over which electrical signals can pass; "a channel is typically what you rent from a telephone company"
   Synonyms: transmission
   
   
2. [noun] 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. [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)
   Synonyms: groove
   
   
4. [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; "the ship went aground in the channel"
   
   
5. [noun] (often plural) a means of communication or access; "it must go through official channels"; "lines of communication were set up between the two firms"
   Synonyms: communication line
   
   
6. [noun] a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance; "the tear duct was obstructed"; "the alimentary canal"; "poison is released through a channel in the snake's fangs"
   Synonyms: duct, epithelial duct, canal
   
   
7. [noun] a television station and its programs; "a satellite TV channel"; "surfing through the channels"; "they offer more than one hundred channels"
   Synonyms: television TV
   
   
8. [noun] 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"
   Synonyms: distribution
   
   
9. [verb] transmit or serve as the medium for transmission; "Sound carries well over water"; "The airwaves carry the sound"; "Many metals conduct heat"
   Synonyms: conduct, transmit, convey, carry
   
   
10. [verb] direct the flow of; "channel infomartion towards a broad audience"
    Synonyms: canalize, canalise
    
    
11. [verb] send from one person or place to another; "transmit a message"
    Synonyms: transmit, transfer, transport, ize, ise
    
    

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Related Words:

• wash up
• pipe in
• bring in
• retransmit
• bring, get, convey, fetch
• project
• propagate
• translate
• turn, release
• send, send out
• gutter, trough
• limbers
• dado
• flute, fluting
• quirk
• rabbet, rebate
• track
• rut
• stria, striation
• washout
• Harlem River
• canal
• English Channel
• Hampton Roads
• Mozambique Channel
• rill
• strait, sound
• tideway
• watercourse
• Windward Passage
• back channel
• lens
• liaison, link, contact, inter-group communication
• pore
• spinal canal, vertebral canal, canalis vertebralis
• ductule, ductulus
• canaliculus
• canal of Schlemm, Schlemm's canal, sinus venosus sclerae
• venous sinus, sinus
• lacrimal duct, lachrymal duct, tear duct
• nasolacrimal duct
• Haversian canal
• hepatic duct
• inguinal canal, canalis inguinalis
• common bile duct, bile duct
• pancreatic duct
• lymph vessel, lymphatic vessel
• salivary duct
• cerebral aqueduct, Sylvian aqueduct, aqueductus cerebri
• ureter
• urethra
• cervical canal, canalis cervicis uteri
• umbilical cord
• vagina
• epididymis
• vas deferens, ductus deferens
• seminal duct
• ejaculatory duct
• cartilaginous tube
• bronchiole
• alimentary canal, alimentary tract, digestive tube, digestive tract, gastrointestinal tract, GI tract
• lactiferous duct

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