channel-n; 8 Senses

Sense Number 1: transmission channel

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

Sense Number 2: groove

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

Sense Number 3: narrow passage for vessels

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

Sense Number 4: means of communication

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

Sense Number 5: bodily canal

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

Sense Number 6: tv station

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

Sense Number 7: seller

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

Sense Number 8: none of the above

Commentary: Automatically generated NOTA sense (bbn)

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