channel
英 ['t??n(?)l]
美['t??nl]
- vt. 引導，開導；形成河道
- n. 通道；頻道；海峽
英英釋意
- 1. a path over which electrical signals can pass;
- "a channel is typically what you rent from a telephone company"
- 2. 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"
- 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;
- "the ship went aground in the channel"
- 5. (often plural) a means of communication or access;
- "it must go through official channels"
- "lines of communication were set up between the two firms"
- 6. 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"
- 7. a television station and its programs;
- "a satellite TV channel"
- "surfing through the channels"
- "they offer more than one hundred channels"
- 8. 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"