channel
Nouns
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(n) a path over which electrical signals can pass
- a channel is typically what you rent from a telephone company
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(n) 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
- (n) 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,
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(n) 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
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(n) (often plural) a means of communication or access
- it must go through official channels
- lines of communication were set up between the two firms
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(n) 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
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(n) a television station and its programs
- a satellite TV channel
- surfing through the channels
- they offer more than one hundred channels
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(n) 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
Verbs
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(v) transmit or serve as the medium for transmission
- Sound carries well over water
- The airwaves carry the sound
- Many metals conduct heat
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(v) direct the flow of
- channel information towards a broad audience
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(v) send from one person or place to another
- transmit a message