What is the meaning of channels?

noun

• A path over which electrical signals can pass.
  • usage: "a channel is typically what you rent from a telephone company"
  • synonyms: channel, transmission channel
• A passage for water (or other fluids) to flow through.
  • usage: "the fields were crossed with irrigation channels"; "gutters carried off the rainwater into a series of channels under the street"
  • synonyms: 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.
  • synonyms: groove, 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.
  • usage: "the ship went aground in the channel"
  • synonyms: channel
• Often plural. ( a means of communication or access)
  • usage: "it must go through official channels"; "lines of communication were set up between the two firms"
  • synonyms: channel, communication channel, line
• A bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance.
  • usage: "the tear duct was obstructed"; "the alimentary canal"; "poison is released through a channel in the snake's fangs"
  • synonyms: duct, epithelial duct, canal, channel
• A television station and its programs.
  • usage: "a satellite TV channel"; "surfing through the channels"; "they offer more than one hundred channels"
  • synonyms: channel, television channel, TV channel
• A way of selling a company's product either directly or via distributors.
  • usage: "possible distribution channels are wholesalers or small retailers or retail chains or direct mailers or your own stores"
  • synonyms: distribution channel, channel
• Official routes of communication.
  • usage: "you have to go through channels"

verb

• Transmit or serve as the medium for transmission.
  • usage: "Sound carries well over water"; "The airwaves carry the sound"; "Many metals conduct heat"
  • synonyms: impart, conduct, transmit, convey, carry, channel
• Direct the flow of.
  • usage: "channel information towards a broad audience"
  • synonyms: channel, canalize, canalise
• Send from one person or place to another.
  • usage: "transmit a message"
  • synonyms: transmit, transfer, transport, channel, channelize, channelise