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channel
a way of selling a company's product either directly or via distributors
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noun
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”
noun
a passage for water (or other fluids) to flow through
“the fields were crossed with irrigation channels”
noun
a television station and its programs
“a satellite TV channel”
noun
a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance
“the tear duct was obstructed”
noun
a path over which electrical signals can pass
“a channel is typically what you rent from a telephone company”
noun
(often plural) a means of communication or access
“it must go through official channels”
noun
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”
noun
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)
verb
send from one person or place to another
“transmit a message”
verb
direct the flow of
“channel information towards a broad audience”
verb
transmit or serve as the medium for transmission
“Sound carries well over water”
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possible distribution channels are wholesalers or small retailers or retail chains or direct mailers or your own stores
the fields were crossed with irrigation channels
gutters carried off the rainwater into a series of channels under the street
a satellite TV channel
surfing through the channels
they offer more than one hundred channels
the tear duct was obstructed
the alimentary canal
poison is released through a channel in the snake's fangs
a channel is typically what you rent from a telephone company
it must go through official channels
lines of communication were set up between the two firms
the ship went aground in the channel
transmit a message
channel information towards a broad audience
Sound carries well over water
The airwaves carry the sound
Many metals conduct heat
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