Synonyms for channel
ˈtʃæn lchan·nel

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1. channel

   Wherever there is room for one object to pass another there is a way. A road (originally a rideway) is a prepared way for traveling with horses or vehicles, always the latter unless the contrary is expressly stated; a way suitable to be traversed only by foot-passengers or by animals is called a path, bridle-path, or track; as, the roads in that country are mere bridle-paths. A road may be private; a highway or highroad is public, highway being a specific name for a road legally set apart for the use of the public forever; a highway may be over water as well as over land. A route is a line of travel, and may be over many roads. A street is in some center of habitation, as a city, town, or village; when it passes between rows of dwellings the country road becomes the village street. An avenue is a long, broad, and imposing or principal street. Track is a word of wide signification; we speak of a goat-track on a mountain-side, a railroad-track, a race-track, the track of a comet; on a traveled road the line worn by regular passing of hoofs and wheels in either direction is called the track. A passage is between any two objects or lines of enclosure, a pass commonly between mountains. A driveway is within enclosed grounds, as of a private residence. A channel is a waterway. A thoroughfare is a way through; a road or street temporarily or permanently closed at any point ceases for such time to be a thoroughfare. Compare AIR; DIRECTION.

   Synonyms:
   alley, avenue, bridle-path, course, driveway, highroad, highway, lane, pass, passage, passageway, path, pathway, road, roadway, route, street, thoroughfare, track, way

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1. channel, transmission channelnoun

   a path over which electrical signals can pass

   "a channel is typically what you rent from a telephone company"

   Synonyms:
   epithelial duct, line, transmission channel, canal, distribution channel, television channel, communication channel, duct, groove

2. channelnoun

   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"

   Synonyms:
   epithelial duct, line, transmission channel, canal, distribution channel, television channel, communication channel, duct, groove

3. groove, channelnoun

   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:
   epithelial duct, line, transmission channel, canal, distribution channel, vallecula, television channel, communication channel, duct, groove, rut

4. channelnoun

   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"

   Synonyms:
   epithelial duct, line, transmission channel, canal, distribution channel, television channel, communication channel, duct, groove

5. channel, communication channel, linenoun

   (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:
   course, billet, short letter, assembly line, blood line, crease, melodic phrase, argumentation, railway line, argument, pedigree, product line, origin, parentage, melodic line, rail line, business line, contrast, communication channel, canal, phone line, line of products, epithelial duct, dividing line, occupation, credit line, cable, personal line of credit, line of reasoning, pipeline, descent, demarcation, stemma, crinkle, agate line, line of work, transmission channel, groove, stock, business, line of credit, furrow, lineage, wrinkle, line of merchandise, note, distribution channel, personal credit line, tune, line, line of descent, job, bank line, melody, telephone circuit, line of business, air, duct, bloodline, transmission line, strain, telephone line, seam, television channel, production line, subscriber line, ancestry, blood, logical argument

6. duct, epithelial duct, canal, channelnoun

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

   "the tear duct was obstructed"; "the alimentary canal"; "poison is released through a channel in the snake's fangs"

   Synonyms:
   epithelial duct, line, transmission channel, canal, distribution channel, television channel, communication channel, duct, groove

7. channel, television channel, TV channelnoun

   a television station and its programs

   "a satellite TV channel"; "surfing through the channels"; "they offer more than one hundred channels"

   Synonyms:
   epithelial duct, line, transmission channel, canal, distribution channel, television channel, communication channel, duct, groove

8. distribution channel, channelverb

   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"

   Synonyms:
   epithelial duct, line, transmission channel, canal, distribution channel, television channel, communication channel, duct, groove

9. impart, conduct, transmit, convey, carry, channelverb

   transmit or serve as the medium for transmission

   "Sound carries well over water"; "The airwaves carry the sound"; "Many metals conduct heat"

   Synonyms:
   canalise, beam, transfer, express, comport, dribble, get, pack, bring, impart, behave, add, send, run, guide, lead, have a bun in the oven, take, communicate, post, expect, channelize, deport, fetch, extend, channelise, deal, pass on, carry, give, transport, stock, bestow, hold, gestate, direct, acquit, broadcast, convey, persuade, leave, conduct, transmit, contain, air, sway, contribute, carry on, stockpile, canalize, lend, bear

10. channel, canalize, canaliseverb

    direct the flow of

    "channel information towards a broad audience"

    Synonyms:
    canalize, channelise, transfer, canalise, canal, channelize, conduct, carry, transport, convey, transmit, impart

11. transmit, transfer, transport, channel, channelize, channeliseverb

    send from one person or place to another

    "transmit a message"

    Synonyms:
    ship, canalise, beam, transfer, delight, ravish, transpose, impart, enthrall, head, guide, maneuver, point, change, channelize, enthral, channelise, canalize, enrapture, steer, carry, manoeuver, transport, manoeuvre, direct, transplant, communicate, broadcast, shift, convey, conduct, air, send, enchant, remove, reassign, transmit

Matched Categories

1. • Body Of Water
   • Depression
   • Passage
   • River
   • Steer
   • Television Station

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1. channelnoun

   Synonyms:
   passage, duct, conduit, water-course

2. channelnoun

   Synonyms:
   gutter, furrow, fluting, chamfer

3. channelnoun

   Synonyms:
   strait, arm of the sea, narrow sea

4. channelnoun

   Synonyms:
   avenue, route, way

5. channelverb

   Synonyms:
   groove, flute, chamfer, cut furrows in, cut channels in

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1. channelnoun

   Synonyms:
   water-course, canal, aqueduct, gutter, runway, alveus, conduit, duct, strait, furrow, chamfer, chamfret, groove, fluting, avenue, route, artery

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1. List of paraphrases for "channel":

   canal, channels, chain, fairway, hotel, chenal, manica, kanal, canals, carcase, flume, channelling, ductus, conduit, mancha, duct, tv, pipe, circuit, vcp, groove, strait, canales, chanel

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How to use channel in a sentence?

1. Peter Wallace:

   In the last month there's been a huge increase -- there's been about 120 people or so that have claimed they've come from Iran, they were trying to get across in dinghies and before they were trying to get through the tunnel or in the back of lorries, but it's been this huge change in the last month with over 100 people, including little tiny children, trying to get across the whole Channel in little tiny boats.

2. Brett Whitin:

   We’re up approximately 7.5 million acre feet in California storage since last year at this time, so already a significant gain in water supply and this snowpack is going to benefit those reservoirs, as opposed to melt in the spring, but it will be a challenge to manage all this snowpack. I mean, there’s been record snow and a lot of these rivers have limited channel capacity downstream, so getting that water out safely is going to be a challenge.

3. Li Jiao:

   This is not a demonstration. This is simply our only channel to attract the government's attention. Up until now they have not acknowledged us at all.

4. Lakshheish M Patel:

   Stock market will never start upward journey until all investors money have been mercilessly looted by big companies on exchange. News channel will propagate a fabricated stories through hired analysts and anchor for this fall crash and get their commission

5. State Council:

   It is important to speed up the transfer of scientific achievements, open a channel between science and the economy and quickly create a new productive force.