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channel

On a Web site, a directory of selected Web resources about a particular topic, such as personal finance, sport, or entertainment. Many search engines and portals also offer a selection of channels. Unlike directories, channels are not intended to be comprehensive but may be programmed to suit a particular kind of user. Some companies may charge to include Web sites in their channels.

channel

In business, medium and location of purchase of product or service, and of its use. Groceries, for example, can be bought through a traditional channel, the grocery store, or through a non-traditional channel, home shopping using the Internet.



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In vain, I searched for some sign of ancient commerce that, if history is to be believed, must have dotted the bosom of the Channel with white sails and blackened the heavens with the smoke of countless funnels, but as far as eye could reach the tossing waters of the Channel were empty and deserted.
The Lost Continent by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
The empire of Blefuscu is an island situated to the north-east of Lilliput, from which it is parted only by a channel of eight hundred yards wide.
Gulliver's Travels by Swift, Jonathan View in context
The last of a strong ebb was running out in channel in the teeth of an ocean breeze of forty miles an hour.
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