Channel | Mean of channel in English Dictionary

/ˈtʃænl̟/

• Noun
• a television or radio station
1. The TV program airs at 8:00 p.m. on Channel 5.
2. Change the channel, please.
3. What is your favorite radio channel?
4. a movie/news/sports channel
• a system used for sending something (such as information or supplies) from one place or person to another
1. E-mail is a channel of communication.
2. To make a complaint, you will need to go through (the) official/proper channels.
3. the ordinary channels of trade
4. the army's distribution/supply channels
• a way of expressing your ideas, feelings, etc., to other people
1. Art provides a channel for creativity.
2. Music became a channel for her emotions.

• a path, tube, or long narrow place where water flows
1. A system of irrigation channels brings water to the fields.
• a deep part of a river, harbor, or other body of water where ships can go
1. a narrow channel of the Mississippi River
• a narrow area of the sea between two large areas of land that are close together
1. We took a ferryboat across the English Channel to France.
• Verb
• to express (your ideas, thoughts, feelings, energy, etc.) through a particular behavior or action
1. She's started channeling her anger towards me.
2. His aggression was channeled into playing football.
3. Actors learn how to channel their own emotions into their characters.
• to send (food, money, etc.) to someone or something
1. He channeled millions of dollars into/to the program.
2. Food, clothes, and money were channeled through churches to the poor people of the village.
• to carry and move (something, such as water) in or through a tube, passage, etc.
1. Their irrigation system channels water to the cornfields.
• to allow (the spirit of a dead person) to enter your body in order to talk with living people
1. She said that she was channeling my father and that he had a message for me.