channel

channel has 19 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 7.

Definitions

• n.. The hollow bed where a stream of water runs or may run.
• n.. The deeper part of a river, harbor, strait, etc., where the main current flows, or which affords the best and safest passage for vessels.
• n.. A strait, or narrow sea, between two portions of lands; as, the British Channel.
• n.. That through which anything passes; means of passing, conveying, or transmitting; as, the news was conveyed to us by different channels.
• n.. A gutter; a groove, as in a fluted column.
• n.. Flat ledges of heavy plank bolted edgewise to the outside of a vessel, to increase the spread of the shrouds and carry them clear of the bulwarks.
• v. t.. To form a channel in; to cut or wear a channel or channels in; to groove.
• v. t.. To course through or over, as in a channel.
• n.. 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"
• n.. 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"
• n.. a television station and its programs; "a satellite TV channel"; "surfing through the channels"; "they offer more than one hundred channels"
• n.. 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"