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Results for: "channel"

Translating from English to Portuguese Portugal

Translations:

channel — TV or radio channel
→ canal m
→ Canal da Mancha
channel — narrow body of water between two land masses
→ estreito m
→ canal m
channel — direct the flow
→ canalizar

More translations:

channel
→ canal
channel
→ meio
channel
→ sulcar
channel
→ canalizar

English definitions WordNet

NOUN 8

  1. a path over which electrical signals can pass

    • “a channel is typically what you rent from a telephone company”
    Synonymstransmission channel
  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)

    Synonymsgroove
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  1. 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”
  2. (often plural) a means of communication or access

    • “it must go through official channels”
    • “lines of communication were set up between the two firms”
    Synonymscommunication channelline
  3. 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”
    Synonymsductepithelial ductcanal
  4. a television station and its programs

    • “a satellite TV channel”
    • “surfing through the channels”
    • “they offer more than one hundred channels”
    Synonymstelevision channelTV channel
  5. 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”
    Synonymsdistribution channel

VERB 3

  1. transmit or serve as the medium for transmission

    • “Sound carries well over water”
    • “The airwaves carry the sound”
    • “Many metals conduct heat”
  2. direct the flow of

    • “channel information towards a broad audience”
  3. send from one person or place to another

    • “transmit a message”