channel

a path over which electrical signals can pass

• “a channel is typically what you rent from a telephone company”

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”

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)

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”

(often plural) a means of communication or access

• “it must go through official channels”
• “lines of communication were set up between the two firms”

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”

a television station and its programs

• “a satellite TV channel”
• “surfing through the channels”
• “they offer more than one hundred channels”

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”

transmit or serve as the medium for transmission

• “Sound carries well over water”
• “The airwaves carry the sound”
• “Many metals conduct heat”

direct the flow of

• “channel infomartion towards a broad audience”

send from one person or place to another

• “transmit a message”