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