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channels   (TTS Sound)



Overview of noun channels

The noun channels has 1 sense


  • channels -- (official routes of communication; "you have to go through channels")


Overview of noun channel

The noun channel has 8 senses


  • channel, transmission channel -- (a path over which electrical signals can pass; "a channel is typically what you rent from a telephone company")

  • channel -- (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")

  • groove, channel -- (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))

  • channel -- (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")

  • channel, communication channel, line -- ((often plural) a means of communication or access; "it must go through official channels"; "lines of communication were set up between the two firms")

  • duct, epithelial duct, canal, channel -- (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")

  • channel, television channel, TV channel -- (a television station and its programs; "a satellite TV channel"; "surfing through the channels"; "they offer more than one hundred channels")

  • distribution channel, channel -- (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")


Overview of verb channel

The verb channel has 3 senses