1. a path over which electrical signals can pass;

"a channel is typically what you rent from a telephone company"

2. 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"

3. 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)

4. 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"

5. (often plural) a means of communication or access;

"it must go through official channels"

"lines of communication were set up between the two firms"

6. 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"

7. a television station and its programs;

"a satellite TV channel"

"surfing through the channels"

"they offer more than one hundred channels"

8. 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"

1. transmit or serve as the medium for transmission;

"Sound carries well over water"

"The airwaves carry the sound"

"Many metals conduct heat"

2. direct the flow of;

"channel infomartion towards a broad audience"

3. send from one person or place to another;

"transmit a message"