channel

Transmit or serve as the medium for transmission.

Direct the flow of.

“channel information towards a broad audience”

Send from one person or place to another.

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”

A television station and its programs.

“a satellite TV channel”

“surfing through the channels”

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

“poison is released through a channel in the snake's fangs”

A path over which electrical signals can pass.

“a channel is typically what you rent from a telephone company”

(often plural) a means of communication or access.

“it must go through official channels”

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”

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).

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”