Channel vs. Passage

Channelnoun

The physical confine of a river or slough, consisting of a bed and banks.

‘The water coming out of the waterwheel created a standing wave in the channel.’;

Passagenoun

A paragraph or section of text or music with particular meaning.

‘passage of scripture’; ‘She struggled to play the difficult passages.’;

Channelnoun

The natural or man-made deeper course through a reef, bar, bay, or any shallow body of water.

‘A channel was dredged to allow ocean-going vessels to reach the city.’;

Passagenoun

Part of a path or journey.

‘He made his passage through the trees carefully, mindful of the stickers.’;

Channelnoun

The navigable part of a river.

‘We were careful to keep our boat in the channel.’;

Passagenoun

The official approval of a bill or act by a parliament.

‘The company was one of the prime movers in lobbying for the passage of the act.’;

Channelnoun

A narrow body of water between two land masses.

‘The English Channel lies between France and England.’;

Passagenoun

(art) The use of tight brushwork to link objects in separate spatial plains. Commonly seen in Cubist works.

Channelnoun

That through which anything passes; means of conveying or transmitting.

‘The news was conveyed to us by different channels.’;

Passagenoun

A passageway or corridor.

Channelnoun

A gutter; a groove, as in a fluted column.

Passagenoun

(caving) An underground cavity, formed by water or falling rocks, which is much longer than it is wide.

Channelnoun

(electronics) A connection between initiating and terminating nodes of a circuit.

‘The guard-rail provided the channel between the downed wire and the tree.’;

Passagenoun

(euphemistic) The vagina.

Channelnoun

(electronics) The narrow conducting portion of a MOSFET transistor.

Passagenoun

The act of passing

Channelnoun

(communication) The part that connects a data source to a data sink.

‘A channel stretches between them.’;

Passagenoun

(dressage) A movement in classical dressage, in which the horse performs a very collected, energetic, and elevated trot that has a longer period of suspension between each foot fall than a working trot.

Channelnoun

(communication) A path for conveying electrical or electromagnetic signals, usually distinguished from other parallel paths.

‘We are using one of the 24 channels.’;

Passageverb

(medicine) To pass something, such as a pathogen or stem cell, through a host or medium

‘He passaged the virus through a series of goats.’; ‘After 24 hours, the culture was passaged to an agar plate.’;

Channelnoun

(communication) A single path provided by a transmission medium via physical separation, such as by multipair cable.

‘The channel is created by bonding the signals from these four pairs.’;

Passageverb

(rare) To make a passage, especially by sea; to cross

‘They passaged to America in 1902.’;

Channelnoun

(communication) A single path provided by a transmission medium via spectral or protocol separation, such as by frequency or time-division multiplexing.

‘Their call is being carried on channel 6 of the T-1 line.’;

Passageverb

To execute a passage movement

Channelnoun

(broadcasting) A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies, usually in conjunction with a predetermined letter, number, or codeword, and allocated by international agreement.

‘KNDD is the channel at 107.7 MHz in Seattle.’;

Passagenoun

The act of passing; transit from one place to another; movement from point to point; a going by, over, across, or through; as, the passage of a man or a carriage; the passage of a ship or a bird; the passage of light; the passage of fluids through the pores or channels of the body.

‘What! are my doors opposed against my passage!’;

Channelnoun

(broadcasting) A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies used for transmitting television.

‘NBC is on channel 11 in San Jose.’;

Passagenoun

Transit by means of conveyance; journey, as by water, carriage, car, or the like; travel; right, liberty, or means, of passing; conveyance.

‘The ship in which he had taken passage.’;

Channelnoun

(storage) The portion of a storage medium, such as a track or a band, that is accessible to a given reading or writing station or head.

‘This chip in this disk drive is the channel device.’;

Passagenoun

Price paid for the liberty to pass; fare; as, to pay one's passage.

Channelnoun

(technic) The way in a turbine pump where the pressure is built up.

‘The liquid is pressurized in the lateral channel.’;

Passagenoun

Removal from life; decease; departure; death.

‘When he is fit and season'd for his passage.’;

Channelnoun

A distribution channel

Passagenoun

Way; road; path; channel or course through or by which one passes; way of exit or entrance; way of access or transit. Hence, a common avenue to various apartments in a building; a hall; a corridor.

‘And with his pointed dartExplores the nearest passage to his heart.’; ‘The Persian army had advanced into the . . . passages of Cilicia.’;

Channelnoun

(Internet) A particular area for conversations on an IRC network, analogous to a chatroom and often dedicated to a specific topic.

Passagenoun

A continuous course, process, or progress; a connected or continuous series; as, the passage of time.

‘The conduct and passage of affairs.’; ‘The passage and whole carriage of this action.’;

Channelnoun

(Internet) An obsolete means of delivering up-to-date Internet content.

Passagenoun

A separate part of a course, process, or series; an occurrence; an incident; an act or deed.

‘The . . . almost incredible passage of their unbelief.’;

Channelnoun

A psychic or medium who temporarily takes on the personality of somebody else.

Passagenoun

A particular portion constituting a part of something continuous; esp., a portion of a book, speech, or musical composition; a paragraph; a clause.

‘How commentators each dark passage shun.’;

Channelnoun

(nautical) The wale of a sailing ship which projects beyond the gunwale and to which the shrouds attach via the chains. One of the 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.

Passagenoun

Reception; currency.

Channelverb

(transitive) To make or cut a channel or groove in.

Passagenoun

A pass or en encounter; as, a passage at arms.

‘No passages of loveBetwixt us twain henceforward evermore.’;

Channelverb

(transitive) To direct or guide along a desired course.

‘We will channel the traffic to the left with these cones.’;

Passagenoun

A movement or an evacuation of the bowels.

Channelverb

To serve as a medium for.

‘She was channeling the spirit of her late husband, Seth.’;

Passagenoun

In parliamentary proceedings: (a) The course of a proposition (bill, resolution, etc.) through the several stages of consideration and action; as, during its passage through Congress the bill was amended in both Houses. (b) The advancement of a bill or other proposition from one stage to another by an affirmative vote; esp., the final affirmative action of the body upon a proposition; hence, adoption; enactment; as, the passage of the bill to its third reading was delayed.

‘The final question was then put upon its passage.’;

Channelverb

(transitive) To follow as a model, especially in a performance.

‘He was trying to channel President Reagan, but the audience wasn't buying it.’; ‘When it is my turn to sing karaoke, I am going to channel Ray Charles.’;

Passagenoun

the act of passing from one state or place to the next

Channelnoun

The hollow bed where a stream of water runs or may run.

Passagenoun

a section of text; particularly a section of medium length

Channelnoun

The deeper part of a river, harbor, strait, etc., where the main current flows, or which affords the best and safest passage for vessels.

Passagenoun

a way through or along which someone or something may pass

Channelnoun

A strait, or narrow sea, between two portions of lands; as, the British Channel.

Passagenoun

the passing of a law by a legislative body

Channelnoun

That through which anything passes; a means of passing, conveying, or transmitting; as, the news was conveyed to us by different channels.

‘The veins are converging channels.’; ‘At best, he is but a channel to convey to the National assembly such matter as may import that body to know.’;

Passagenoun

a journey usually by ship;

‘the outward passage took 10 days’;

Channelnoun

A gutter; a groove, as in a fluted column.

Passagenoun

a short section of a musical composition

Channelnoun

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.

Passagenoun

a path or channel or duct through or along which something may pass;

‘the nasal passages’;

Channelnoun

official routes of communication, especially the official means by which information should be transmitted in a bureaucracy; as, to submit a request through channels; you have to go through channels.

Passagenoun

a bodily process of passing from one place or stage to another;

‘the passage of air from the lungs’; ‘the passing of flatus’;

Channelnoun

a band of electromagnetic wave frequencies that is used for one-way or two-way radio communication; especially, the frequency bands assigned by the FTC for use in television broadcasting, and designated by a specific number; as, channel 2 in New York is owned by CBS.

Passagenoun

the motion of one object relative to another;

‘stellar passings can perturb the orbits of comets’;

Channelnoun

one of the signals in an electronic device which receives or sends more than one signal simultaneously, as in stereophonic radios, records, or CD players, or in measuring equipment which gathers multiple measurements simultaneously.

Passagenoun

the act of passing something to another person

Channelnoun

an opening in a cell membrane which serves to actively transport or allow passive transport of substances across the membrane; as, an ion channel in a nerve cell.

Passagenoun

the action or process of moving through or past somewhere on the way from one place to another

‘there were moorings for boats wanting passage through the lock’;

Channelnoun

a path for transmission of signals between devices within a computer or between a computer and an external device; as, a DMA channel.

Passagenoun

the action or process of moving forward

‘despite the passage of time she still loved him’;

Channelverb

To form a channel in; to cut or wear a channel or channels in; to groove.

‘No more shall trenching war channel her fields.’;

Passagenoun

the right to pass through somewhere

‘we obtained a permit for safe passage from the embassy’;

Channelverb

To course through or over, as in a channel.

Passagenoun

a journey by sea or air

‘I booked a passage on the next ship’;

Channelnoun

a path over which electrical signals can pass;

‘a channel is typically what you rent from a telephone company’;

Passagenoun

(of a migrating bird) the action of passing through a place en route to its final destination

‘a passage migrant’; ‘the species occurs regularly on passage’;

Channelnoun

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’;

Passagenoun

a narrow way allowing access between buildings or to different rooms within a building; a passageway

‘the larger bedroom was at the end of the passage’;

Channelnoun

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)

Passagenoun

a duct, vessel, or other channel in the body.

Channelnoun

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’;

Passagenoun

the process of transition from one state to another

‘an allegory on the theme of the passage from ignorance to knowledge’;

Channelnoun

(often plural) a means of communication or access;

‘it must go through official channels’; ‘lines of communication were set up between the two firms’;

Passagenoun

the passing of a bill into law

‘a catalyst for the unrest was the passage of a privatization law’;

Channelnoun

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’;

Passagenoun

a short extract from a book or other printed material

‘he picked up the newspaper and read the passage again’;

Channelnoun

a television station and its programs;

‘a satellite TV channel’; ‘surfing through the channels’; ‘they offer more than one hundred channels’;

Passagenoun

a section of a piece of music

‘an orchestral passage’;

Channelnoun

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’;

Passagenoun

an episode in a spell of longer activity such as a sporting event

‘a neat passage of midfield play’;

Channelverb

transmit or serve as the medium for transmission;

‘Sound carries well over water’; ‘The airwaves carry the sound’; ‘Many metals conduct heat’;

Passagenoun

the propagation of microorganisms or cells in a series of host organisms or culture media, so as to maintain them or modify their virulence

‘cultured cells can replicate on serial passage for predictable periods of time’;

Channelverb

direct the flow of;

‘channel infomartion towards a broad audience’;

Passagenoun

a movement performed in advanced dressage and classical riding, in which the horse executes a slow elevated trot, giving the impression of dancing.

Channelverb

send from one person or place to another;

‘transmit a message’;

Passageverb

subject (a strain of microorganisms or cells) to a passage

‘each recombinant virus was passaged nine times successively’;

Channelnoun

a length of water wider than a strait, joining two larger areas of water, especially two seas.

Channelnoun

the English Channel

‘the movement has spread across the Channel’;

Channelnoun

a navigable passage in a stretch of water otherwise unsafe for vessels

‘buoys marked the safe limits of the channel’;

Channelnoun

a hollow bed for a natural or artificial waterway

‘the river is confined in a narrow channel’;

Channelnoun

a band of frequencies used in radio and television transmission, especially as used by a particular station.

Channelnoun

a service or station using a channel of frequencies

‘a new television channel’;

Channelnoun

a method or system for communication or distribution

‘some companies have a variety of sales channels’; ‘they didn't apply through the proper channels’;

Channelnoun

an electric circuit which acts as a path for a signal

‘an audio channel’;

Channelnoun

the semiconductor region in a field-effect transistor that forms the main current path between the source and the drain.

Channelnoun

a tubular passage or duct for liquid

‘fish eggs have a small channel called the micropyle’;

Channelverb

direct towards a particular end or object

‘the council is to channel public funds into training schemes’;

Channelverb

cause to pass along or through a specified route or medium

‘many countries channel their aid through charities’;

Channelverb

(of a person) serve as a medium for (a spirit)

‘she was channelling the spirit of Billie Holiday’;

Channelverb

emulate or seem to be inspired by

‘Meg Ryan plays Avery as if she's channelling Nicole Kidman’;

Channelverb

form channels or grooves in

‘pottery with a distinctive channelled decoration’;