channel

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   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

2. 2
   noun

   a passage for water or other fluids to flow through

   The fields were crossed with irrigation channels.

3. 3
   noun

   a television station and its programs

   a satellite TV channel

4. 4
   noun

   a path over which electrical signals can pass

   a channel is typically what you rent from a telephone company

5. 5
   noun

   (often plural) a means of communication or access

   it must go through official channels

6. 6
   noun

   a deep and relatively narrow body of water that allows passage for vessels

   The lost swimmer was hit by a boat in the channel.

7. 7
   verb

   to direct the flow of

   channel information towards a broad audience

8. 8
   noun

   The hollow bed of running waters; (also) the bed of the sea or other body of water.

   The water coming out of the waterwheel created a standing wave in the channel.

Etymology

Named after the Channel Islands, from where settlers once came from, in the early 18th-century. The Channel Islands are located in the English Channel, a strait (channel) separating the island of Great Britain from the coast of mainland Europe.