Meaning & Definition of Channel in English

1. A path over which electrical signals can pass

• "A channel is typically what you rent from a telephone company"

2. 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"

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)

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

• "The ship went aground in the channel"

5. (often plural) a means of communication or access

• "It must go through official channels"

• "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

• "The tear duct was obstructed"

• "The alimentary canal"

• "Poison is released through a channel in the snake's fangs"

7. A television station and its programs

• "A satellite 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

• "Possible distribution channels are wholesalers or small retailers or retail chains or direct mailers or your own stores"

1. Transmit or serve as the medium for transmission

• "Sound carries well over water"

• "The airwaves carry the sound"

• "Many metals conduct heat"

2. Direct the flow of

• "Channel information towards a broad audience"

3. Send from one person or place to another

• "Transmit a message"