English to English
channel
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noun (n)
- a path over which electrical signals can pass(noun.communication)Example:
A channel is typically what you rent from a telephone company.
source: wordnet30 - a passage for water (or other fluids) to flow through(noun.artifact)Example:
The fields were crossed with irrigation channels.
Gutters carried off the rainwater into a series of channels under the street.
source: wordnet30 - 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)(noun.shape)source: wordnet30
- 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(noun.object)Example:
The ship went aground in the channel.
source: wordnet30 - (often plural) a means of communication or access(noun.communication)Example:
It must go through official channels.
source: wordnet30 - a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance(noun.body)Example:
Poison is released through a channel in the snake's fangs.
source: wordnet30 - a television station and its programs(noun.artifact)Example:
A satellite TV channel.
Surfing through the channels.
They offer more than one hundred channels.
source: wordnet30 - a way of selling a company's product either directly or via distributors(noun.act)Example:
Possible distribution channels are wholesalers or small retailers or retail chains or direct mailers or your own stores.
source: wordnet30 - The hollow bed where a stream of water runs or may run.(noun)source: webster1913
verb (v)
- send from one person or place to another(verb.contact)source: wordnet30
- To form a channel in; to cut or wear a channel or channels in; to groove.(verb)source: webster1913