Channel - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |ˈtʃænl|  American pronunciation of the word channel
Brit.  |ˈtʃæn(ə)l|  British pronunciation of the word channel

noun

- a path over which electrical signals can pass
a channel is typically what you rent from a telephone company
- 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) (syn: 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 (syn: line)
it must go through official channels
- a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance (syn: canal, duct)
poison is released through a channel in the snake's fangs
- a television station and its programs
a satellite TV channel
surfing through the channels
they offer more than one hundred channels
- 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

verb

- transmit or serve as the medium for transmission (syn: carry, conduct, convey, impart, transmit)
- direct the flow of
channel information towards a broad audience
- send from one person or place to another (syn: transfer, transmit, transport)

Extra examples

She's started channeling her anger towards me.

He channeled millions of dollars into the program.

Their irrigation system channels water to the corn fields.

The river has channelled its way through the rocks.

The kids are watching cartoons on the Disney Channel.

What channel is ER on?

He changed channels to watch the basketball game.

The U.S. is working through diplomatic channels to find a solution.

The new software will be sold through existing distribution channels.

It is important that we open channels of communication with the police.

St George's Channel

The sliding doors fit into these plastic channels.

Art provides a channel for the children's creativity.

Most of his energy was channeled into writing and lecturing.

Profits are channelled to conservation groups.

Word forms

verb
I/you/we/they: channel
he/she/it: channels
present participle: channelling
past tense: channelled
past participle: channelled
noun
singular: channel
plural: channels
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