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Words with a similar base: TV_channel, channel, channelise, channelize, communication_channel, distribution_channel, television_channel, transmission_channel

'channel'

[channel.n.01] as in: a path over which electrical signals can pass

Examples:
a channel is typically what you rent from a telephone company

'channel'

[channel.n.02] as in: a passage for water (or other fluids) to flow through

Examples:
the fields were crossed with irrigation channels
gutters carried off the rainwater into a series of channels under the street

'channel'

[groove.n.01] as in: 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)

'channel'

[channel.n.04] as in: 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

Examples:
the ship went aground in the channel

'channel'

[channel.n.05] as in: (often plural) a means of communication or access

Examples:
it must go through official channels
lines of communication were set up between the two firms

'channel'

[duct.n.01] as in: a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance

Examples:
the tear duct was obstructed
the alimentary canal
poison is released through a channel in the snake's fangs

'channel'

[channel.n.07] as in: a television station and its programs

Examples:
a satellite TV channel
surfing through the channels
they offer more than one hundred channels

'channel'

[distribution_channel.n.01] as in: a way of selling a company's product either directly or via distributors

Examples:
possible distribution channels are wholesalers or small retailers or retail chains or direct mailers or your own stores

'channel'

[impart.v.03] as in: transmit or serve as the medium for transmission

Examples:
Sound carries well over water
The airwaves carry the sound
Many metals conduct heat

'channel'

[channel.v.02] as in: direct the flow of

Examples:
channel information towards a broad audience

'channel'

[transmit.v.04] as in: send from one person or place to another

Examples:
transmit a message

Origins

					channel (English)
└── chenel (Old French (842-ca. 1400))
    └── canalis (Latin)
        └── canna (Latin)
            └── κάννα (Ancient Greek (to 1453))
                └── 𒄀 (Akkadian)
                    └── 𒄀𒈾 (Sumerian)