channel

channel

• n.
  • a path over which electrical signals can pass

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

    同义词：transmission channel

  • 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"

  • 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)

    同义词：groove

  • 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"

  • (often plural) a means of communication or access

    "it must go through official channels"

    同义词：communication channelline

  • a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance

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

    同义词：ductepithelial ductcanal

  • a television station and its programs

    "a satellite TV channel"; "surfing through the channels"; "they offer more than one hundred channels"

    同义词：television channelTV channel

  • 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"

    同义词：distribution channel

• v.
  • transmit or serve as the medium for transmission

    同义词：conducttransmitconveycarry

  • direct the flow of

    "channel information towards a broad audience"

    同义词：canalizecanalise

  • send from one person or place to another

    同义词：transmittransfertransportchannelizechannelise