CHANNEL

A path over which electrical signals can pass

Example: "A channel is typically what you rent from a telephone company"

• transmission channel

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

Example: "The fields were crossed with irrigation channels"

• passage  10

• gutter  7
• trough  10
• limbers  11

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)

• groove  10

• depression  13
• impression  14
• imprint  11

• dado  6
• flute  8
• fluting  11
• quirk  18
• • rabbet  10
  • rebate  8
  • track  11
  • rut  3
  • stria  5
  • striation  9
  • washout  13
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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

Example: "The ship went aground in the channel"

• body of water
• water  8

• canal  7
• gut  4
• rill  4
• sound  6
• • strait  6
  • tideway  14
  • watercourse  16
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(often plural) a means of communication or access

Example: "It must go through official channels"

• communication channel
• line  4

• communicating  22
• communication  21

• lens  4
• contact  11
• inter-group communication
• liaison  7
• • link  8
  • line of gab
  • patter  8
  • spiel  7
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A bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance

Example: "The tear duct was obstructed"

• canal  7
• duct  7
• epithelial duct

• passage  10
• passageway  19

• pore  6
• canalis vertebralis
• spinal canal
• vertebral canal
• • ductule  10
  • ductulus
  • canaliculus  15
  • canal of schlemm
  • schlemm's canal
  • sinus venosus sclerae
  • sinus  5
  • venous sinus
  • lachrymal duct
  • lacrimal duct
  • tear duct
  • nasolacrimal duct
  • haversian canal
  • hepatic duct
  • canalis inguinalis
  • inguinal canal
  • bile duct
  • common bile duct
  • pancreatic duct
  • lymph vessel
  • lymphatic vessel
  • salivary duct
  • aqueductus cerebri
  • cerebral aqueduct
  • sylvian aqueduct
  • ureter  6
  • urethra  10
  • canalis cervicis uteri
  • cervical canal
  • umbilical  15
  • umbilical cord
  • epididymis  19
  • ductus deferens
  • vas deferens
  • seminal duct
  • ejaculatory duct
  • cartilaginous tube
  • bronchiole  17
  • alimentary canal
  • alimentary tract
  • digestive tract
  • digestive tube
  • gastrointestinal tract
  • gi tract
  • lactiferous duct
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A television station and its programs

Example: "A satellite tv channel"

• television channel
• tv channel

A way of selling a company's product either directly or via distributors

Example: "Possible distribution channels are wholesalers or small retailers or retail chains or direct mailers or your own stores"

• distribution channel