channel

noun

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

e.g. possible distribution channels are wholesalers or small retailers or retail chains or direct mailers or your own stores

Synonym: distribution channel

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

e.g. the fields were crossed with irrigation channels
gutters carried off the rainwater into a series of channels under the street

3. a television station and its programs

e.g. a satellite TV channel
surfing through the channels
they offer more than one hundred channels

Synonym: television channelTV channel

4. a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance

e.g. the tear duct was obstructed
the alimentary canal
poison is released through a channel in the snake's fangs

Synonym: ductepithelial ductcanal

5. a path over which electrical signals can pass

e.g. a channel is typically what you rent from a telephone company

Synonym: transmission channel

6. (often plural) a means of communication or access

e.g. it must go through official channels
lines of communication were set up between the two firms

Synonym: communication channelline

7. 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

e.g. the ship went aground in the channel

8. 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

channel

verb

1. send from one person or place to another

e.g. transmit a message

Synonym: transmittransfertransportchannelizechannelise

2. direct the flow of

e.g. channel information towards a broad audience

Synonym: canalizecanalise

3. transmit or serve as the medium for transmission

e.g. Sound carries well over water
The airwaves carry the sound
Many metals conduct heat

Synonym: impartconducttransmitconveycarry

1. 电视台;电视频道
A channel is a television station.

e.g. ...the only serious current affairs programme on either channel.
两个频道唯一的严肃时事节目
e.g. ...the proliferating number of television channels in America.
美国激增的电视频道

2. 频道;波段
A channel is a band of radio waves on which radio messages can be sent and received.

3. 渠道;途径;门路
If you do something through a particular channel, or particular channels, that is the system or organization that you use to achieve your aims or to communicate.

e.g. The government will surely use the diplomatic channels available...
政府肯定会利用各种现有的外交渠道。
e.g. The Americans recognise that the UN can be the channel for greater diplomatic activity...
美国人认识到可以通过联合国这个渠道开展更多的外交活动。

4. 将(资金或资源)专门用于
If you channel money or resources into something, you arrange for them to be used for that thing, rather than for a wider range of things.

e.g. Jacques Delors wants a system set up to channel funds to the poor countries...
雅克·德洛尔希望建立一套体系，将资金专门用于援助贫穷的国家。
e.g. Revenues from 'green taxes' could then be channelled back into energy efficiency.
从“绿色税收”得来的收入便可回过头来用于提高能效。

5. 将(精力或情感)专注于;集中
If you channel your energies or emotions into something, you concentrate on or do that one thing, rather than a range of things.

e.g. Stephen is channelling his energies into a novel called Blue.
斯蒂芬正集中精力写一部名为《蓝色》的小说。

6. 水道;沟渠
A channel is a passage along which water flows.

channel

e.g. Keep the drainage channel clear.
保持下水道畅通。

7. 航道
A channel is a route used by boats.

8. 英吉利海峡
The Channel or the English Channel is the narrow area of water between England and France.

1. channel

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