· a path over which electrical signals can pass; "a channel is typically what you rent from a telephone company"
Synonym(s): transmission_channel
Hypernym(s): transmission
· 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"
Hypernym(s): passage
· 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)
Synonym(s): groove
Hypernym(s): depression, impression, imprint
· 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"
Hypernym(s): body_of_water, water
· (often plural) a means of communication or access; "it must go through official channels"; "lines of communication were set up between the two firms"
Synonym(s): communication_channel, line
Hypernym(s): communication, communicating
· 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"
Synonym(s): duct, epithelial_duct, canal
Hypernym(s): passage, passageway
· a television station and its programs; "a satellite TV channel"; "surfing through the channels"; "they offer more than one hundred channels"
Synonym(s): television_channel, TV_channel
Hypernym(s): television_station, TV_station
· 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"
Synonym(s): distribution_channel
Hypernym(s): marketing
· transmit or serve as the medium for transmission; "Sound carries well over water"; "The airwaves carry the sound"; "Many metals conduct heat"
Synonym(s): impart, conduct, transmit, convey, carry
Hypernym(s): bring, convey, take
· direct the flow of; "channel information towards a broad audience"
Hypernym(s): steer, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, direct, point, head, guide, channelize, channelise
· send from one person or place to another; "transmit a message"
Synonym(s): transmit, transfer, transport, channelize, channelise