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Meaning of channel
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
channel
n 1: a path over which electrical signals can pass; "a channel
is typically what you rent from a telephone company" [syn:
{channel}, {transmission channel}]
2: 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: 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) [syn: {groove}, {channel}]
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; "the ship went aground in the
channel"
5: (often plural) a means of communication or access; "it must
go through official channels"; "lines of communication were
set up between the two firms" [syn: {channel}, {communication
channel}, {line}]
6: 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" [syn: {duct},
{epithelial duct}, {canal}, {channel}]
7: a television station and its programs; "a satellite TV
channel"; "surfing through the channels"; "they offer more
than one hundred channels" [syn: {channel}, {television
channel}, {TV channel}]
8: 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" [syn: {distribution channel}, {channel}]
v 1: transmit or serve as the medium for transmission; "Sound
carries well over water"; "The airwaves carry the sound";
"Many metals conduct heat" [syn: {impart}, {conduct},
{transmit}, {convey}, {carry}, {channel}]
2: direct the flow of; "channel information towards a broad
audience" [syn: {channel}, {canalize}, {canalise}]
3: send from one person or place to another; "transmit a
message" [syn: {transmit}, {transfer}, {transport},
{channel}, {channelize}, {channelise}]
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