Commentary: a path over which electrical signals can pass
Examples:
A channel is typically what you rent from a telephone company.
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WordNet 2.0 Sense Numbers: 1
Commentary: a long narrow shallow furrow cut either by a natural process (such as erosion) or by a tool (e.g. a groove in a phonograph record or an irrigation channels)
Examples:
The fields were crossed with irrigation channels.
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WordNet 2.0 Sense Numbers: 2 3
Commentary: 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
Examples:
The ship went aground in the channel.
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WordNet 2.0 Sense Numbers: 4
Commentary: communication channel, line - (often plural) a means of communication or access
Examples:
It must go through official channels.
Lines of communication were set up between the two firms.
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WordNet 2.0 Sense Numbers: 5
Commentary: duct, epithelial duct, canal - a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance
Examples:
Poison is released through a channel in the snake's fangs.
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WordNet 2.0 Sense Numbers: 6
Commentary: TV channel, television channel - a television station and it's programs
Examples:
A satellite TV channel.
Surfing through the channels.
They offer more than one hundred channels.
I get thirty channels, though many of them show the same programs.
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WordNet 2.0 Sense Numbers: 7
Commentary: a way of selling a company's product either directly or via distributors
Examples:
There are many possible distribution channels.
Wholesalers, small retailers, retail chains, or direct mailers are all possible distribution channels.
Door-to-door salespeople are his preferred distribution channel.
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WordNet 2.0 Sense Numbers: 8
Commentary: Automatically generated NOTA sense (bbn)
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