channel

Sense 1 noun

a path over which electrical signals can pass

a channel is typically what you rent from a telephone company

Sense 2 verb

transmit or serve as the medium for transmission

Sound carries well over water

Sense 3 noun

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

the fields were crossed with irrigation channels

Sense 4 verb

direct the flow of

channel information towards a broad audience

Sense 5 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)

Sense 6 verb

send from one person or place to another

transmit a message

Sense 7 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

Sense 8 noun

(often plural) a means of communication or access

it must go through official channels

Sense 9 noun

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

the tear duct was obstructed

Sense 10 noun

a television station and its programs

a satellite TV channel

Sense 11 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