Dictionary Check: channel

"channel" is a valid word!

Scrabble 12 points
Words with Friends 15 points

Definition

noun

a path over which electrical signals can pass

Example: "a channel is typically what you rent from a telephone company"
noun

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

Example: "the fields were crossed with irrigation channels"
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)

Synonyms:
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

Example: "the ship went aground in the channel"
noun

(often plural) a means of communication or access

Example: "it must go through official channels"
noun

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

Example: "the tear duct was obstructed"

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