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Meaning of channel

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  channel
      n 1: a path over which electrical signals can pass; "a channel
           is typically what you rent from a telephone company" [syn:
           {channel}, {transmission channel}]
      2: 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"
      3: 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}, {channel}]
      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"
      5: (often plural) a means of communication or access; "it must
         go through official channels"; "lines of communication were
         set up between the two firms" [syn: {channel}, {communication
         channel}, {line}]
      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" [syn: {duct},
         {epithelial duct}, {canal}, {channel}]
      7: a television station and its programs; "a satellite TV
         channel"; "surfing through the channels"; "they offer more
         than one hundred channels" [syn: {channel}, {television
         channel}, {TV channel}]
      8: 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" [syn: {distribution channel}, {channel}]
      v 1: transmit or serve as the medium for transmission; "Sound
           carries well over water"; "The airwaves carry the sound";
           "Many metals conduct heat" [syn: {impart}, {conduct},
           {transmit}, {convey}, {carry}, {channel}]
      2: direct the flow of; "channel information towards a broad
         audience" [syn: {channel}, {canalize}, {canalise}]
      3: send from one person or place to another; "transmit a
         message" [syn: {transmit}, {transfer}, {transport},
         {channel}, {channelize}, {channelise}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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