Thesaurus: channel

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1. n. The hollow bed where a stream of water runs or may run.
2. n. The deeper part of a river, harbor, strait, etc., where the main current flows, or which affords the best and safest passage for vessels.
3. n. A strait, or narrow sea, between two portions of lands; as, the British Channel.
4. n. That through which anything passes; means of passing, conveying, or transmitting; as, the news was conveyed to us by different channels.
5. n. A gutter; a groove, as in a fluted column.
6. n. Flat ledges of heavy plank bolted edgewise to the outside of a vessel, to increase the spread of the shrouds and carry them clear of the bulwarks.
7. v. t. To form a channel in; to cut or wear a channel or channels in; to groove.
8. v. t. To course through or over, as in a channel.
9. n. a path over which electrical signals can pass
10. n. a passage for water (or other fluids) to flow through
11. n. 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)
12. n. 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