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Definition of channel : 1. A gutter; a groove, as in a fluted column.
2. A strait, or narrow sea, between two portions of lands; as, the British Channel.
3. Flat ledges of heavy plank bolted edgewise to the outside of a vessel, to increase the spread of the shrouds and carry them clear of the bulwarks.
4. That through which anything passes; means of passing, conveying, or transmitting; as, the news was conveyed to us by different channels.
5. The deeper part of a river, harbor, strait, etc., where the main current flows, or which affords the best and safest passage for vessels.
6. The hollow bed where a stream of water runs or may run.
7. To course through or over, as in a channel.
8. To form a channel in; to cut or wear a channel or channels in; to groove.

Synonyms:

impart, maneuver, current, tube, air, transpose, television channel, take, reassign, carrier, cable, line of reasoning, comport, crest, enthral, have a bun in the oven, distribution channel, lineage, transport, transmission line, descent, blood, add, persuade, logical argument, route, driveway, pedigree, line of business, dividing line, deport, assembly line, get, transfer, change, water, thoroughfare, point, neck, rail line, agate line, highway, product line, melody, bestow, roadway, behave, shift, gestate, ridge, road, gouge, bloodline, concentrate, center, melodic line, stockpile, parentage, manoeuver, phone line, line of work, sway, pack, wrinkle, converge, line of descent, pipeline, remove, pass, canyon, bring, extend, manoeuvre, melodic phrase, communicate, crinkle, passageway, vallecula, street, strain, transmit, enthrall, acquit, head, conduct, dribble, job, origin, run, leave, focalize, line of products, demarcation, carry on, billet, transplant, argumentation, ship, focus, telephone line, carry, tune, strait, delight, crease, fetch, ravish, communication channel, pass on, deal, contain, hold, lane, slit, note, beam, sound, broadcast, ancestry, bear, personal credit line, enrapture, artery, direct, blood line, enchant, give, business line, railway line, convey, credit line, bridle-path, race, canalize, pathway, channelise, line of merchandise, argument, avenue, allow, line, stemma, vein, track, seam, TV channel, send, alley, path, flood, stock, short letter, contrast, lead, epithelial duct, moat, tunnel, production line, canalise, lend, occupation, transmission channel, edge, flow, subscriber line, highroad, channelize, expect, line of credit, contribute, steer, express, business, deep water, guide, watercourse, personal line of credit, post, main, telephone circuit, bank line

passage, pipe, aqueduct, conduit, duct, canal, gutter, ditch, course, sluice, culvert, trench, way, sewer

flute, cut, incision, groove, rut, ravine, dig, slot, dado, furrow, trough, incise, corrugation, gully, corrugate

Usage examples:

• As a British admiral said two hundred years ago, " It is better to be alarmed now, as I am, than next summer when the French fleet may be in the Channel." - "Lessons of the war with Spain and other articles", Alfred T. Mahan.
• To add to my misery, I could easily imagine the laugh that would go up on the other side of the Channel when the trick that had been played upon me became known. - "My Strangest Case", Guy Boothby.
• It looked as if the pilot were following a channel, for the wash of the sea on hidden shoals began to rise from both sides. - "The Coast of Adventure", Harold Bindloss.