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)
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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