noun
1. 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
Synonym: distribution channel
2. 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
3. a television station and its programs
e.g. a satellite TV channel
surfing through the channels
they offer more than one hundred channels
Synonym: television channelTV channel
4. a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance
e.g. the tear duct was obstructed
the alimentary canal
poison is released through a channel in the snake's fangs
Synonym: ductepithelial ductcanal
5. a path over which electrical signals can pass
e.g. a channel is typically what you rent from a telephone company
Synonym: transmission channel
6. (often plural) a means of communication or access
e.g. it must go through official channels
lines of communication were set up between the two firms
Synonym: communication channelline
7. 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
8. 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
channel
verb
1. send from one person or place to another
e.g. transmit a message
Synonym: transmittransfertransportchannelizechannelise
2. direct the flow of
e.g. channel information towards a broad audience
Synonym: canalizecanalise
3. transmit or serve as the medium for transmission
e.g. Sound carries well over water
The airwaves carry the sound
Many metals conduct heat
Synonym: impartconducttransmitconveycarry