Channel (Noun)
Meaning 1
A path over which electrical signals can pass; "a channel is typically what you rent from a telephone company".
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Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
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Meaning 2
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).
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Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes.
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Meaning 3
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".
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Nouns denoting man-made objects.
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Meaning 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".
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Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made).
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Meaning 5
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".
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Nouns denoting acts or actions.
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Meaning 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".
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Nouns denoting body parts.
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- Canal Of Schlemm
- Alimentary Tract
- Spinal Canal
- Lactiferous Duct
- Ductus Deferens
- Digestive Tube
- Gastrointestinal Tract
- Seminal Duct
- Canalis Vertebralis
- Venous Sinus
- Canalis Inguinalis
- Bile Duct
- Common Bile Duct
- Sinus
- Cervical Canal
- Sylvian Aqueduct
- Cartilaginous Tube
- Canalis Cervicis Uteri
- Pore
- Bronchiole
- Ureter
- Lymphatic Vessel
- GI Tract
- Ejaculatory Duct
- Haversian Canal
- Ductulus
- Ductule
- Schlemm's Canal
- Lacrimal Duct
- Urethra
- Pancreatic Duct
- Cerebral Aqueduct
- Nasolacrimal Duct
- Vagina
- Inguinal Canal
- Umbilical Cord
- Lymph Vessel
- Tear Duct
- Epididymis
- Vertebral Canal
- Sinus Venosus Sclerae
- Umbilical
- Canaliculus
- Lachrymal Duct
- Salivary Duct
- Aqueductus Cerebri
- Hepatic Duct
- Vas Deferens
- Alimentary Canal
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Meaning 7
(often plural) a means of communication or access; "it must go through official channels"; "lines of communication were set up between the two firms".
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Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
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Meaning 8
A television station and its programs; "a satellite TV channel"; "surfing through the channels"; "they offer more than one hundred channels".
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Nouns denoting man-made objects.