A path over which electrical signals can pass:
— A channel is typically what you rent from a telephone company.

synonym: transmission channel.

Dutch: kanaal
Polish: kanał

A passage for water (or other fluids) to flow through.

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).

synonym: groove.

Roget 259: furrow, groove, rut, sulcus [Anat.], scratch, streak, striae, crack, score, incision, slit; chamfer, fluting; corduroy road, cradle hole.    channel, gutter, trench, ditch, dike, dyke; moat, fosse^†, trough, kennel; ravine etc. (interval) 198; tajo [U.S.], thank-ye-ma'am [U.S.].    ... show more

Dutch: schacht, inkerving
Polish: bruzda, rowek, wyżłobienie, wrąb, żłobienie

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.

Dutch: bedding, geul, kanaal, slenk, vaargeul, zee-engte

often plural A means of communication or access:
— It must go through official channels.

synonyms: communication channel, line.

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.

synonyms: canal, duct, epithelial duct.

Roget 260: hole, foramen; puncture, perforation; fontanel^†; transforation^†; pinhole, keyhole, loophole, porthole, peephole, mousehole, pigeonhole; eye of a needle; eyelet; slot.    opening; aperture, apertness^†; hiation^†, yawning, oscitancy^†, dehiscence, patefaction^†, pandiculation^†; chasm etc. (interval) 198.    embrasure, window, casement; abatjour^†; light; sky light, fan light; lattice; bay window, bow window; oriel [Arch.]; dormer, lantern.    outlet, inlet; vent, vomitory; embouchure; orifice, mouth, sucker, muzzle, throat, gullet, weasand^†, wizen, nozzle; placket.    portal, porch, gate, ostiary^†, postern, wicket, trapdoor, hatch, door; arcade; cellarway^†, driveway, gateway, doorway, hatchway, gangway; lich gate^†.    way, path etc. 627; thoroughfare; channel; passage, passageway; tube, pipe; water pipe etc. 350; air pipe etc. 351; vessel, tubule, canal, gut, fistula; adjutage^†, ajutage^†; ostium^†; smokestack; chimney, flue, tap, funnel, gully, tunnel, main; mine, pit, adit^†, shaft; gallery.    alley, aisle, glade, vista.    bore, caliber; pore; blind orifice; fulgurite^†, thundertube^†.    porousness, porosity.    sieve, cullender^†, colander; cribble^†, riddle, screen; honeycomb.    apertion^†, perforation; piercing etc. v.; terebration^†, empalement^†, pertusion^†, puncture, acupuncture, penetration.    key etc. 631, opener, master key, password, combination, passe-partout.    ... show more

Roget 350: conduit, channel, duct, watercourse, race; head race, tail race; abito^†, aboideau^†, aboiteau [Fr.], bito^†; acequia^†, acequiador^†, acequiamadre^†; arroyo; adit^†, aqueduct, canal, trough, gutter, pantile; flume, ingate^†, runner; lock-weir, tedge^†; vena^†; dike, main, gully, moat, ditch, drain, sewer, culvert, cloaca, sough, kennel, siphon; piscina^†; pipe etc. (tube) 260; funnel; tunnel etc. (passage) 627; water pipe, waste pipe; emunctory^†, gully hole, artery, aorta, pore, spout, scupper; adjutage^†, ajutage^†; hose; gargoyle; gurgoyle^†; penstock, weir; flood gate, water gate; sluice, lock, valve; rose; waterworks.    pipeline.    ... show more

Roget 627: method, way, manner, wise, gait, form, mode, fashion, tone, guise; modus operandi, MO; procedure etc. (line of conduct) 692.    path, road, route, course; line of way, line of road; trajectory, orbit, track, beat, tack.    steps; stair, staircase; flight of stairs, ladder, stile; perron^†.    bridge, footbridge, viaduct, pontoon, steppingstone, plank, gangway; drawbridge; pass, ford, ferry, tunnel; pipe etc. 260.    door; gateway etc. (opening) 260; channel, passage, avenue, means of access, approach, adit^†; artery, lane, loan [Scot.], alley, aisle, lobby, corridor; back-door, back-stairs; secret passage; covert way; vennel^†.    roadway, pathway, stairway; express; thoroughfare; highway; turnpike, freeway, royal road, coach road; broad highway, King's highway, Queen's highway; beaten track, beaten path; horse road, bridle road, bridle track, bridle path; walk, trottoir^†, footpath, pavement, flags, sidewalk; crossroad, byroad, bypath, byway; cut; short cut etc. (mid-course) 628; carrefour^†; private road, occupation road; highways and byways; railroad, railway, tram road, tramway; towpath; causeway; canal etc. (conduit) 350; street etc. (abode) 189; speedway.    adv.. how; in what way, in what manner; by what mode; so, in this way, after this fashion.    one way or another, anyhow; somehow or other etc. (instrumentality) 631; by way of; via; in transitu [Lat.] etc. 270; on the high road to.    ... show more

Dutch: kanaal, buisje, buis, streng
Polish: cewka, przewód, kanał

A television station and its programs:
— A satellite TV channel.
— Surfing through the channels.
— They offer more than one hundred channels.

synonyms: television channel, TV channel.

Dutch: zender, kanaal

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.

synonym: distribution channel.

Transmit or serve as the medium for transmission.

synonyms: carry, conduct, convey, impart, transmit.

Dutch: overdragen

Direct the flow of.

Send from one person or place to another.

synonyms: channelise, channelize, transfer, transmit, transport.

Dutch: voeren, doorgeven, overbrengen