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Noun channel has 8 senses
- channel, transmission channel - a path over which electrical signals can pass; "a channel is typically what you rent from a telephone company"
--1 is a kind of transmission
- channel - 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"
--2 is a kind of passage
--2 has particulars: gutter, trough; limbers
- groove, channel - 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)
--3 is a kind of depression, impression, imprint
--3 has particulars:
- channel - 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"
--4 is a kind of body of water, water
--4 has particulars:
- channel, communication channel, line - (often plural) a means of communication or access; "it must go through official channels"; "lines of communication were set up between the two firms"
--5 is a kind of communication, communicating
--5 has particulars:
- duct, epithelial duct, canal, channel - 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"
--6 is a kind of passage, passageway
--6 has parts: ampulla
--6 has particulars: | | pore; spinal canal, vertebral canal, canalis vertebralis; ductule, ductulus; canaliculus; canal of Schlemm, Schlemm's canal, sinus venosus sclerae; venous sinus, sinus; lacrimal duct, lachrymal duct, tear duct; nasolacrimal duct; Haversian canal; hepatic duct; inguinal canal, canalis inguinalis; common bile duct, bile duct; pancreatic duct; lymph vessel, lymphatic vessel; salivary duct; cerebral aqueduct, Sylvian aqueduct, aqueductus cerebri; ureter; urethra; cervical canal, canalis cervicis uteri; umbilical cord; vagina; epididymis; vas deferens, ductus deferens; seminal duct; ejaculatory duct; cartilaginous tube; bronchiole; alimentary canal, alimentary tract, digestive tube, digestive tract, gastrointestinal tract, GI tract; lactiferous duct |
- channel, television channel, TV channel - a television station and its programs; "a satellite TV channel"; "surfing through the channels"; "they offer more than one hundred channels"
--7 is a kind of television station, TV station
- distribution channel, channel - 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"
--8 is a kind of marketing
Verb channel has 3 senses
- conduct, transmit, convey, carry, channel - transmit or serve as the medium for transmission; "Sound carries well over water"; "The airwaves carry the sound"; "Many metals conduct heat"
--1 is one way to bring, convey, take
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP
- channel, canalize, canalise - direct the flow of; "channel infomartion towards a broad audience"
--2 is one way to steer, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, direct, point, head, guide, channelize, channelise
Sample sentence:
They channel the water from the sink
- transmit, transfer, transport, channel, channelize, channelise - send from one person or place to another; "transmit a message"
--3 is one way to move, displace
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP
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