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English to English noun
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a path over which electrical signals can pass |  | Example: a channel is typically what you rent from a telephone company
source: wordnet30
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a passage for water (or other fluids) to flow through | | Example: the fields were crossed with irrigation channels
gutters carried off the rainwater into a series of channels under the street
source: wordnet30
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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) | | source: wordnet30
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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 | | Example: the ship went aground in the channel
source: wordnet30
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(often plural) a means of communication or access | | Example: it must go through official channels
lines of communication were set up between the two firms
source: wordnet30
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a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance | | Example: the tear duct was obstructed
the alimentary canal
poison is released through a channel in the snake's fangs
source: wordnet30
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a television station and its programs | | Example: a satellite TV channel
surfing through the channels
they offer more than one hundred channels
source: wordnet30
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a way of selling a company's product either directly or via distributors | | Example: possible distribution channels are wholesalers or small retailers or retail chains or direct mailers or your own stores
source: wordnet30
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The hollow bed where a stream of water runs or may run. | | source: webster1913 verb
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transmit or serve as the medium for transmission | | Example: Sound carries well over water
The airwaves carry the sound
Many metals conduct heat
source: wordnet30
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direct the flow of | | Example: channel information towards a broad audience
source: wordnet30
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send from one person or place to another | | Example: transmit a message
source: wordnet30
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To form a channel in; to cut or wear a channel or channels in; to groove. | | source: webster1913
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