Dictionary Entry
channel
channel is a 7-letter English word with 19 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The hollow bed where a stream of water runs or may run. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 15 · 19 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The hollow bed where a stream of water runs or may run.
- 2noun
The deeper part of a river, harbor, strait, etc., where the main current flows, or which affords the best and safest passage for vessels.
- 3noun
A strait, or narrow sea, between two portions of lands; as, the British Channel.
- 4noun
That through which anything passes; means of passing, conveying, or transmitting; as, the news was conveyed to us by different channels.
- 5noun
A gutter; a groove, as in a fluted column.
- 6noun
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.
- 7transitive verb
To form a channel in; to cut or wear a channel or channels in; to groove.
- 8transitive verb
To course through or over, as in a channel.
- 9noun
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"
- 10noun
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"
- 11noun
a television station and its programs
"a satellite TV channel"
"surfing through the channels"
- 12noun
a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance
"the tear duct was obstructed"
"the alimentary canal"
- 13noun
a path over which electrical signals can pass
"a channel is typically what you rent from a telephone company"
- 14noun
(often plural) a means of communication or access
"it must go through official channels"
"lines of communication were set up between the two firms"
Synonyms
- 15noun
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"
- 16noun
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)
Synonyms
- 17verb
send from one person or place to another
"transmit a message"
- 18verb
direct the flow of
"channel information towards a broad audience"
- 19verb
transmit or serve as the medium for transmission
"Sound carries well over water"
"The airwaves carry the sound"
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