Definition of channel

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  • channel is a valid Scrabble US word with a point value of 12
  • channel is a valid Scrabble UK word with a point value of 12
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Definition of channel

  • transmit or serve as the medium for transmission (verb)

    Synonyms

    1. carry
    2. conduct
    3. convey
    4. impart
    5. transmit
  • a television station and its programs (noun)

    Examples

    1. a satellite TV channel
    2. surfing through the channels
    3. they offer more than one hundred channels

    Synonyms

    1. television channel
    2. tv channel
  • a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance (noun)

    Examples

    1. poison is released through a channel in the snake's fangs

    Synonyms

    1. canal
    2. duct
    3. epithelial duct
  • a path over which electrical signals can pass (noun)

    Examples

    1. a channel is typically what you rent from a telephone company

    Synonyms

    1. transmission channel
  • (often plural) a means of communication or access (noun)

    Examples

    1. it must go through official channels

    Synonyms

    1. communication channel
    2. line
  • a way of selling a company's product either directly or via distributors (noun)

    Examples

    1. possible distribution channels are wholesalers or small retailers or retail chains or direct mailers or your own stores

    Synonyms

    1. distribution 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) (noun)

    Synonyms

    1. groove
  • send from one person or place to another (verb)

    Synonyms

    1. channelise
    2. channelize
    3. transfer
    4. transmit
    5. transport
  • 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 (noun)

    Examples

    1. the ship went aground in the channel
  • a passage for water (or other fluids) to flow through (noun)

    Examples

    1. the fields were crossed with irrigation channels
    2. gutters carried off the rainwater into a series of channels under the street
  • direct the flow of (verb)

    Examples

    1. channel information towards a broad audience

See definition of channel in Merriam Webster