channel
cha nuhl
- n a path over which electrical signals can pass
a channel is typically what you rent from a telephone company - 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)
- 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 - n (often plural) a means of communication or access
it must go through official channels - n a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance
poison is released through a channel in the snake's fangs - n a television station and its programs
a satellite TV channel
surfing through the channels
they offer more than one hundred channels - 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 - v transmit or serve as the medium for transmission
- v direct the flow of
channel information towards a broad audience - v send from one person or place to another
- The channel is seen as a prominent voice of moderation in the Middle East, preferring calm analysis to what many see as rival al-Jazeera's more sensational coverage.
- How will the signature news channel of the Bush era steer clear of becoming a lame duck?.
- The often controversial Arab satellite TV channel launches a global English-language service on Wednesday.