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Channel

noun

1.

A path over which electrical signals can pass. Synonym: transmission channel.

2.

A passage for water (or other fluids) to flow through. "Gutters carried off the rainwater into a series of channels under the street"

3.

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: groove.

4.

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.

5.

(often plural) a means of communication or access. Synonyms: communication channel, line. "Lines of communication were set up between the two firms"

6.

A bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance. Synonyms: canal, duct, epithelial duct. "The alimentary canal" , "Poison is released through a channel in the snake's fangs"

7.

A television station and its programs. Synonyms: television channel, TV channel. "Surfing through the channels" , "They offer more than one hundred channels"

8.

A way of selling a company's product either directly or via distributors. Synonym: distribution channel.

verb

(past & past part. channeled or channelled; pres. part. channeling or channelling)

1.

Transmit or serve as the medium for transmission. Synonyms: carry, conduct, convey, impart, transmit. "The airwaves carry the sound" , "Many metals conduct heat"

2.

Direct the flow of. Synonyms: canalise, canalize.

3.

Send from one person or place to another. Synonyms: channelise, channelize, transfer, transmit, transport.

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"Channel" Quotes from Famous Books

... never having gotten acquainted with her. The problem is not one of religion, but of commonsense in economics. Back to the land!" Of course a writing woman who could think like this was deeply interested in the unrest across the Channel. ...

— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Vol. 13 - Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers • Elbert Hubbard

... you see here and there a speck of mud itself, emerging above the surface, and barely large enough to be noticed, and after a while these small islands grow together and you begin to realize that there are distinctly defined banks each side of the broad muddy channel through which you are sailing, intersected here and there by other channels extending in every direction. Twenty miles perhaps from the place where you first perceived indications of real mud, the land will be firm enough ...

— The Twenty-fifth Regiment Connecticut Volunteers in the War of the Rebellion • George P. Bissell

... two processes depend upon two different natural principles. The Mutilation of a member, for instance, finds its analogue in the horticultural operation of pruning, where the object is to divert life from a useless into a useful channel. A part of a plant which previously monopolized a large share of the vigor of the total organism, but without yielding any adequate return, is suddenly cut off, so that the vital processes may proceed more actively in some fruitful parts. Christ's use of this figure is well-known: "Every ...

— Natural Law in the Spiritual World • Henry Drummond

... cannot be called as a witness to hate. But the great foe of Rome never observed his oath more faithfully than I shall that compact which I have made with myself and the powers of my nature: to turn all my strength and time and capacity into the channel of hate against England. Oh, how poor are words and looks and acts to express that fire which rages in the weakest ...

— The Art of Disappearing • John Talbot Smith

... the rock above him, Carse swiftly found the channel—a vertical bore several feet wide, in one corner of the ceiling. Its rock sides glowed redly, and at their end was a round black patch that caused his heart to leap with hope. Outer space!—and a short, straight escape to it! In a flash he saw how ...

— The Passing of Ku Sui • Anthony Gilmore

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