channel

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He would then slowly type a message in a proformat, post that in the channel.

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Quick take

a path over which electrical signals can pass; "a channel is typically what you rent from a telephone company"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of channel gathered in one view.

noun

a path over which electrical signals can pass; "a channel is typically what you rent from a telephone company"

noun

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"

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)

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for channel.

noun

a path over which electrical signals can pass; "a channel is typically what you rent from a telephone company"

noun

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"

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)

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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"

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

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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"

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

noun

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"

verb

transmit or serve as the medium for transmission; "Sound carries well over water"; "The airwaves carry the sound"; "Many metals conduct heat"

See also: impart, conduct, transmit, convey, carry

verb

direct the flow of; "channel information towards a broad audience"

verb

send from one person or place to another; "transmit a message"

Example sentences

He would then slowly type a message in a proformat, post that in the channel.

And each of those channels has a lot of raw bandwidth and can sustain a high transaction rate.

There have been complaints that we have too many bots in the channel now. There have been complaints about it spamming the channel.

* There is only one "tried and true" marketing channel - getting featured on the platform.

So, the SMS gets put in with the control channel instructions and so its marginal cost is 0, but there's still a cost.

Essentially, they cost nothing to the carrier in that they get transmitted as part of the control channel.

These users are shifting to mobile as their primary consumption channel for Facebook.

"/who #channel" listed thousands of compromised clients, including hundreds with .edu hostnames.

[1]Finally, if you did not apply the goto fail update a few days ago, it's trivial to break that TLS channel and also "misconfigure" those keys.

Actual black people were not part of this protest, because a mob of black people attacking a bus would be getting wall-to-wall coverage on every channel.

A post about etiquette that calls someone out by name, with an insulting headline?Face-to-face is the right channel for this sort of pointed criticism.

One person even complained about the name being too long, though to his credit he realized right after he said that that several other people in the channel also have very long handles.

"However, executives at Starz apparently concluded that they would lose even more money by giving consumers a reason to subscribe to Netflix instead of the cable channel.

They refuse to let people pay for their services and thus establish a billing verification channel but they're asking users to put tons of important information into them with no recourse if something does happen.

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