<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>the bed of a stream, river, or other waterway.</li><li>Nautical: a navigable route between two bodies of water.</li><li>the deeper part of a waterway.</li><li>a wide strait, as between a continent and an island.</li><li>a course into which something may be directed: He hoped to direct the conversation to a new channel.</li><li>a route through which anything passes or progresses: channels of trade.</li><li>the specific, prescribed, or official course or means of communication: In an emergency he was able to reach the governor without going through channels.</li><li>a groove or furrow.</li><li>a means of access: He considers the Senate a channel to the White House.</li><li>Architecture: a flute in a column, especially one having no fillet between it and other flutes.</li><li>any of the prominent vertical grooves in a triglyph.</li><li>(in jazz or popular music) a bridge.</li><li>Telecommunications: a frequency band of sufficient width for one- or two-way communication from or to a transmitter used for television, radio, CB radio, telephone, or telegraph communication.</li><li>Computers: a path for the transfer of signals or data within a computer or between a computer and its peripheral equipment.</li><li>Digital Technology: feed: Learn how to create your own web channel.</li><li>a web page or website that distributes frequently updated content by means of a feed: Subscribe to my YouTube channel.</li><li>either of the two signals in stereophonic or any single signal in multichannel sound recording and reproduction.</li><li>Cell Biology: a transient opening made by a protein embedded in a cell membrane, permitting passage of specific ions or molecules into or out of the cell: calcium channel.</li><li>a tubular passage for liquids or fluids.</li><li>Building Trades: any structural member, as one of reinforced concrete, having the form of three sides of a rectangle.</li><li>a number of such members: channel in 100-foot lengths.</li><li>channel iron.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>to convey through or as through a channel: He channeled the information to us.</li><li>to direct toward or into some particular course: to channel one's interests.</li><li>to excavate as a channel.</li><li>to form a channel in; groove.</li><li>to professedly reach or convey messages from (a spiritual guide) by entering a meditative or trancelike state.</li><li>to imitate the ideas, appearance, etc., of (a person or thing that is admired): At times he seems to be channeling the late Michael Jackson’s vocal stylings.</li><li>to become marked by a channel: Soft earth has a tendency to channel during a heavy rain.</li></ul>