a passage for water (or other fluids) to flow through
“the fields were crossed with irrigation channels”
direct the flow of
“channel information towards a broad audience”
a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance
“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”
a means of communication or access
“it must go through official 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”
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)
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”