CHANNEL

/ˈtʃænəl/ ► audio Scrabble 12 Words With Friends 15

Definition

  1. verb transmit or serve as the medium for transmission. — synonyms: impart, conduct, transmit, convey, carry
  2. verb direct the flow of.
  3. verb send from one person or place to another. — synonyms: transmit, transfer, transport, channelize, channelise
  4. noun a path over which electrical signals can pass. — synonyms: transmission_channel
  5. noun a passage for water (or other fluids) to flow through.
  6. noun 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). — synonyms: groove
  7. noun 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.
  8. noun (often plural) a means of communication or access. — synonyms: communication_channel, line
  9. noun a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance. — synonyms: duct, epithelial_duct, canal
  10. noun a television station and its programs. — synonyms: television_channel, TV_channel
  11. noun a way of selling a company's product either directly or via distributors. — synonyms: distribution_channel

Examples

  • “The water coming out of the waterwheel created a standing wave in the channel.”
  • “A channel was dredged to allow ocean-going vessels to reach the city.”
  • “We were careful to keep our boat in the channel.”

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