n.
1.a path over which electrical signals can pass
2.a passage for water (or other fluids) to flow through
3.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)
4.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
5.(often plural) a means of communication or access
6.a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance
7.a television station and its programs
8.a way of selling a company's product either directly or via distributors channel v.
1.transmit or serve as the medium for transmission
2.direct the flow of
3.send from one person or place to another