• 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"
• 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 television station and its programs; "a satellite TV Channel"; "surfing through the Channels"; "they offer more than one hundred Channels"
• 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"
• a path over which electrical signals can pass; "a Channel is typically what you rent from a telephone company"
• (often plural) a means of communication or access; "it must go through official Channels"; "lines of communication were set up between the two firms"
• 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"
• 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)
• send from one person or place to another; "transmit a message"
• direct the flow of; "Channel infomartion towards a broad audience"
• transmit or serve as the medium for transmission; "Sound carries well over water"; "The airwaves carry the sound"; "Many metals conduct heat"

'Channel' in other languages