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Channel vs. Passage — What's the Difference?

Channel vs. Passage — What's the Difference?

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Channel

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

Passage

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

Channel

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

Passage

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

Channel

A method or system for communication or distribution
Some companies have a variety of sales channels
They didn't apply through the proper channels
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Passage

The process of transition from one state to another
An allegory on the theme of the passage from ignorance to knowledge

Channel

An electric circuit which acts as a path for a signal
An audio channel

Passage

A short extract from a book or other printed material
He picked up the newspaper and read the passage again

Channel

A tubular passage or duct for liquid
Fish eggs have a small channel called the micropyle

Passage

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

Channel

Direct towards a particular end or object
The council is to channel public funds into training schemes

Passage

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

Channel

Form channels or grooves in
Pottery with a distinctive channelled decoration

Passage

Subject (a strain of microorganisms or cells) to a passage
Each recombinant virus was passaged nine times successively

Channel

The bed of a stream or river.

Passage

Movement from one place to another
The passage of water through a sieve.

Channel

The deeper part of a river or harbor, especially a deep navigable passage.

Passage

The process of elapsing
The passage of time.

Channel

A broad strait, especially one that connects two seas.

Passage

The process of changing from one condition or stage to another; transition
The passage from childhood to adulthood.

Channel

A trench, furrow, or groove.

Passage

Enactment into law of a legislative bill.

Channel

A tubular passage for liquids; a conduit.

Passage

A journey, especially one by air or water
We had a rough passage on the stormy sea.

Channel

A course or pathway through which information is transmitted
New channels of thought.
A reliable channel of information.

Passage

The right to travel as a passenger, especially on a ship
Book passage.
Pay for one's passage.

Channel

Often channels A route of communication or access
Took her request through official channels.

Passage

The right, permission, or power to come and go freely
Only medical supply trucks were granted safe passage through enemy territory.

Channel

In communications theory, a gesture, action, sound, written or spoken word, or visual image used in transmitting information.

Passage

A path, channel, or duct through, over, or along which something may pass
The nasal passages.

Channel

(Electronics) A specified frequency band for the transmission and reception of electromagnetic signals, as for television signals.

Passage

A corridor.

Channel

A continuous program of audio or video content distributed by a television, radio, or internet broadcaster.

Passage

An occurrence or event
"Another encouraging passage took place ... when heads of state ... took note of the extraneous factors affecting their economies that are beyond their control" (Helen Kitchen).

Channel

A company or other entity presenting such content.

Passage

Something, such as an exchange of words or blows, that occurs between two persons
A passage at arms.

Channel

(Computers) A chatroom on an online network.

Passage

A segment of a written work or speech
A celebrated passage from Shakespeare.

Channel

The medium through which a spirit guide purportedly communicates with the physical world.

Passage

(Music) A segment of a composition, especially one that demonstrates the virtuousity of the composer or performer
A passage of exquisite beauty, played to perfection.

Channel

A rolled metal bar with a bracket-shaped section.

Passage

A section of a painting or other piece of artwork; a detail.

Channel

See ion channel.

Passage

(Physiology) The process of discharging something from a bodily part, such as evacuation of waste from the bowels.

Channel

See protein channel.

Passage

(Medicine) The introduction of an instrument into a bodily cavity.

Channel

A wood or steel ledge projecting from a sailing ship's sides to spread the shrouds and keep them clear of the gunwales.

Passage

(Obsolete) Death.

Channel

To make or cut channels in.

Passage

A slow cadenced trot in which the horse raises and returns to the ground first one diagonal pair of feet, then the other.

Channel

To form a groove or flute in.

Passage

To execute such a trot in dressage.

Channel

To direct or guide along some desired course
Channels her curiosity into research.
Channel young people into good jobs.

Passage

To cause (a horse) to execute such a trot in dressage.

Channel

To serve as a medium for (a spirit guide).

Passage

A paragraph or section of text or music with particular meaning.
Passage of scripture
She struggled to play the difficult passages.

Channel

To use or follow as a model; imitate
A politician channeling bygone conservatives to appear stronger on defense.

Passage

Part of a path or journey.
He made his passage through the trees carefully, mindful of the stickers.

Channel

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.

Passage

An incident or episode.

Channel

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.

Passage

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.

Channel

The navigable part of a river.
We were careful to keep our boat in the channel.

Passage

The advance of time.

Channel

A narrow body of water between two land masses.
The English Channel lies between France and England.

Passage

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

Channel

Something through which another thing passes; a means of conveying or transmitting.
The news was conveyed to us by different channels.

Passage

A passageway or corridor.

Channel

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

Passage

(nautical) A strait or other narrow waterway.
The Northwest Passage

Channel

A structural member with a cross section shaped like a squared-off letter C.

Passage

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

Channel

(electronics) A connection between initiating and terminating nodes of a circuit.
The guard-rail provided the channel between the downed wire and the tree.

Passage

(euphemistic) The vagina.

Channel

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

Passage

The act of passing; movement across or through.

Channel

(communication) The part that connects a data source to a data sink.
A channel stretches between them.

Passage

The right to pass from one place to another.

Channel

(communication) A path for conveying electrical or electromagnetic signals, usually distinguished from other parallel paths.
We are using one of the 24 channels.

Passage

A fee paid for passing or for being conveyed between places.

Channel

(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.

Passage

Serial passage.

Channel

(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.

Passage

A gambling game for two players using three dice, in which the object is to throw a double over ten.

Channel

(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.

Passage

(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.

Channel

(broadcasting) A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies used for transmitting television.
NBC is on channel 11 in San Jose.

Passage

(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.

Channel

(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.

Passage

(rare) To make a passage, especially by sea; to cross.
They passaged to America in 1902.

Channel

The part of a turbine pump where the pressure is built up.
The liquid is pressurized in the lateral channel.

Passage

To execute a passage movement.

Channel

A distribution channel

Passage

Of a bird: Less than a year old but living on its own, having left the nest.
Passage red-tailed hawks are preferred by falconers because these younger birds have not yet developed the adult behaviors which would make them more difficult to train.

Channel

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

Passage

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!

Channel

A means of delivering up-to-date Internet content.

Passage

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.

Channel

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

Passage

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

Channel

(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.

Passage

Removal from life; decease; departure; death.
When he is fit and season'd for his passage.

Channel

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

Passage

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.

Channel

(transitive) To direct or guide along a desired course.
We will channel the traffic to the left with these cones.

Passage

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.

Channel

To serve as a medium for.
She was channeling the spirit of her late husband, Seth.

Passage

A separate part of a course, process, or series; an occurrence; an incident; an act or deed.
The . . . almost incredible passage of their unbelief.

Channel

(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.

Passage

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.

Channel

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

Passage

Reception; currency.

Channel

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

Passage

A pass or en encounter; as, a passage at arms.
No passages of loveBetwixt us twain henceforward evermore.

Channel

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

Passage

A movement or an evacuation of the bowels.

Channel

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.

Passage

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.

Channel

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

Passage

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

Channel

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.

Passage

A section of text; particularly a section of medium length

Channel

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.

Passage

A way through or along which someone or something may pass

Channel

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.

Passage

The passing of a law by a legislative body

Channel

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.

Passage

A journey usually by ship;
The outward passage took 10 days

Channel

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.

Passage

A short section of a musical composition

Channel

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

Passage

A path or channel or duct through or along which something may pass;
The nasal passages

Channel

To form a channel in; to cut or wear a channel or channels in; to groove.
No more shall trenching war channel her fields.

Passage

A bodily process of passing from one place or stage to another;
The passage of air from the lungs
The passing of flatus

Channel

To course through or over, as in a channel.

Passage

The motion of one object relative to another;
Stellar passings can perturb the orbits of comets

Channel

A path over which electrical signals can pass;
A channel is typically what you rent from a telephone company

Passage

The act of passing something to another person

Channel

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

Channel

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)

Channel

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

Channel

(often plural) a means of communication or access;
It must go through official channels
Lines of communication were set up between the two firms

Channel

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

Channel

A television station and its programs;
A satellite TV channel
Surfing through the channels
They offer more than one hundred channels

Channel

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

Channel

Transmit or serve as the medium for transmission;
Sound carries well over water
The airwaves carry the sound
Many metals conduct heat

Channel

Direct the flow of;
Channel infomartion towards a broad audience

Channel

Send from one person or place to another;
Transmit a message

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