Channel vs. Route

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.’;

Routenoun

A course or way which is traveled or passed.

‘The route was used so much that it formed a rut.’; ‘You need to find a route that you can take between these two obstacles.’;

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.’;

Routenoun

A regular itinerary of stops, or the path followed between these stops, such as for delivery or passenger transportation.

‘We live near the bus route.’; ‘Here is a map of our delivery routes.’;

Channelnoun

The navigable part of a river.

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

Routenoun

A road or path; often specifically a highway.

‘Follow Route 49 out of town.’;

Channelnoun

A narrow body of water between two land masses.

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

Routenoun

(figuratively) One of multiple methods or approaches to doing something.

Channelnoun

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

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

Routenoun

(historical) One of the major provinces of imperial China from the Later Jin to the Song, corresponding to the Tang and early Yuan circuits.

Channelnoun

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

Routeverb

(transitive) To direct or divert along a particular course.

‘All incoming mail was routed through a single office.’;

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.’;

Routeverb

(Internet) to connect two local area networks, thereby forming an internet.

Channelnoun

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

Routeverb

To send (information) through a router.

Channelnoun

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

‘A channel stretches between them.’;

Routenoun

The course or way which is traveled or passed, or is to be passed; a passing; a course; a road or path; a march.

‘Wide through the furzy field their route they take.’;

Channelnoun

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

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

Routenoun

an established line of travel or access

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.’;

Routenoun

an open way (generally public) for travel or transportation

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.’;

Routeverb

send documents or materials to appropriate destinations

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.’;

Routeverb

send via a specific route

Channelnoun

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

‘NBC is on channel 11 in San Jose.’;

Routeverb

divert in a specified direction;

‘divert the low voltage to the engine cylinders’;

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.’;

Channelnoun

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

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

Channelnoun

A distribution channel

Channelnoun

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

Channelnoun

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

Channelnoun

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

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.

Channelverb

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

Channelverb

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

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

Channelverb

To serve as a medium for.

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

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.’;

Channelnoun

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

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.

Channelnoun

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

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.’;

Channelnoun

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Channelnoun

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

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.’;

Channelverb

To course through or over, as in a channel.

Channelnoun

a path over which electrical signals can pass;

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

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’;

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)

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’;

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’;

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’;

Channelnoun

a television station and its programs;

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

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’;

Channelverb

transmit or serve as the medium for transmission;

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

Channelverb

direct the flow of;

‘channel infomartion towards a broad audience’;

Channelverb

send from one person or place to another;

‘transmit a message’;

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’;