Words · Very common
channel
/ˈtʃænəl/ · 7 letters · 6 distinct letters
- 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
- verb
transmit or serve as the medium for transmission
Sound carries well over water
- 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
the ship went aground in the channel