Meaning of 'channel'

noun

a way of selling a company's product either directly or via distributors

Example: "possible distribution channels are wholesalers or small retailers or retail chains or direct mailers or your own stores"

Synonyms: distribution channel

noun

a passage for water or other fluids to flow through

Example: "The fields were crossed with irrigation channels."

noun

a television station and its programs

Example: "a satellite TV channel"

Synonyms: television channel

noun

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

Synonyms: canal duct epithelial duct

noun

a path over which electrical signals can pass

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

Synonyms: transmission channel

noun

(often plural) a means of communication or access

Example: "it must go through official channels"

Synonyms: line

noun

a deep and relatively narrow body of water that allows passage for vessels

Example: "The lost swimmer was hit by a boat in the channel. "

noun

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)

Synonyms: groove

verb

to send from one person or place to another

Synonyms: transfer

verb

to direct the flow of

Example: "channel information towards a broad audience"

Synonyms: canalize canalise

verb

to transmit or serve as the medium for transmission

Synonyms: carry