channel


Meanings

  • a path over which electrical signals can pass;
    • "a channel is typically what you rent from a telephone company"
  • 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 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"
  • (often plural) a means of communication or access;
    • "it must go through official channels"
  • 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 television station and its programs;
    • "a satellite TV channel"
    • "surfing through the channels"
    • "they offer more than one hundred 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"
  • transmit or serve as the medium for transmission;
  • direct the flow of;
    • "channel information towards a broad audience"
  • send from one person or place to another;
  • CHANNEL v -NELED, -NELING, -NELS or -NELLED, -NELLING, -NELS to direct along some desired course


Scrabble Score: 12

channel is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word

channel is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary

channel is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary


Words With Friends Score: 15

channel is a valid Words With Friends word