Channel vs. Route — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Channel and Route
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Channel
A length of water wider than a strait, joining two larger areas of water, especially two seas.
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Route
A road, course, or way for travel from one place to another
The route from Maine to Boston takes you through New Hampshire.
Ocean routes that avoided the breeding grounds of whales.
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Channel
A band of frequencies used in radio and television transmission, especially as used by a particular station.
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Route
A highway
Traveled on Route 12 through Michigan.
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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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Route
A fixed course or territory assigned to a salesperson or delivery person.
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Channel
An electric circuit which acts as a path for a signal
An audio channel
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Route
A means of reaching a goal
The route to success required hard work.
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Channel
A tubular passage or duct for liquid
Fish eggs have a small channel called the micropyle
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Route
(Football) A pass pattern.
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Channel
Direct towards a particular end or object
The council is to channel public funds into training schemes
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Route
To send or forward by a specific route.
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Channel
Form channels or grooves in
Pottery with a distinctive channelled decoration
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Route
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.
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Channel
The bed of a stream or river.
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Route
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.
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Channel
The deeper part of a river or harbor, especially a deep navigable passage.
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Route
A road or path; often specifically a highway.
Follow Route 49 out of town.
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Channel
A broad strait, especially one that connects two seas.
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Route
(figuratively) One of multiple methods or approaches to doing something.
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Channel
A trench, furrow, or groove.
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Route
(historical) One of the major provinces of imperial China from the Later Jin to the Song, corresponding to the Tang and early Yuan circuits.
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Channel
A tubular passage for liquids; a conduit.
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Route
(computing) A specific entry in a router that tells the router how to transmit the data it receives.
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Channel
A course or pathway through which information is transmitted
New channels of thought.
A reliable channel of information.
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Route
(horse racing) A race longer than one mile.
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Channel
Often channels A route of communication or access
Took her request through official channels.
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Route
(transitive) To direct or divert along a particular course.
All incoming mail was routed through a single office.
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Channel
In communications theory, a gesture, action, sound, written or spoken word, or visual image used in transmitting information.
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Route
(Internet) to connect two local area networks, thereby forming an internet.
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Channel
(Electronics) A specified frequency band for the transmission and reception of electromagnetic signals, as for television signals.
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Route
To send (information) through a router.
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Channel
A continuous program of audio or video content distributed by a television, radio, or internet broadcaster.
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Route
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.
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Channel
A company or other entity presenting such content.
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Route
An established line of travel or access
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Channel
(Computers) A chatroom on an online network.
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Route
An open way (generally public) for travel or transportation
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Channel
The medium through which a spirit guide purportedly communicates with the physical world.
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Route
Send documents or materials to appropriate destinations
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Channel
A rolled metal bar with a bracket-shaped section.
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Route
Send via a specific route
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Channel
See ion channel.
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Route
Divert in a specified direction;
Divert the low voltage to the engine cylinders
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Channel
See protein channel.
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Channel
A wood or steel ledge projecting from a sailing ship's sides to spread the shrouds and keep them clear of the gunwales.
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Channel
To make or cut channels in.
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Channel
To form a groove or flute in.
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Channel
To direct or guide along some desired course
Channels her curiosity into research.
Channel young people into good jobs.
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Channel
To serve as a medium for (a spirit guide).
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Channel
To use or follow as a model; imitate
A politician channeling bygone conservatives to appear stronger on defense.
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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.
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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.
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Channel
The navigable part of a river.
We were careful to keep our boat in the channel.
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A narrow body of water between two land masses.
The English Channel lies between France and England.
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Channel
Something through which another thing passes; a means of conveying or transmitting.
The news was conveyed to us by different channels.
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Channel
A gutter; a groove, as in a fluted column.
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Channel
A structural member with a cross section shaped like a squared-off letter C.
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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.
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(electronics) The narrow conducting portion of a MOSFET transistor.
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Channel
(communication) The part that connects a data source to a data sink.
A channel stretches between them.
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Channel
(communication) A path for conveying electrical or electromagnetic signals, usually distinguished from other parallel paths.
We are using one of the 24 channels.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Channel
(broadcasting) A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies used for transmitting television.
NBC is on channel 11 in San Jose.
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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.
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The part of a turbine pump where the pressure is built up.
The liquid is pressurized in the lateral channel.
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Channel
A distribution channel
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(Internet) A particular area for conversations on an IRC network, analogous to a chat room and often dedicated to a specific topic.
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Channel
A means of delivering up-to-date Internet content.
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Channel
A psychic or medium who temporarily takes on the personality of somebody else.
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(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.
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(transitive) To make or cut a channel or groove in.
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(transitive) To direct or guide along a desired course.
We will channel the traffic to the left with these cones.
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Channel
To serve as a medium for.
She was channeling the spirit of her late husband, Seth.
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(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.
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Channel
The hollow bed where a stream of water runs or may run.
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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.
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Channel
A strait, or narrow sea, between two portions of lands; as, the British Channel.
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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.
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Channel
A gutter; a groove, as in a fluted column.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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A path for transmission of signals between devices within a computer or between a computer and an external device; as, a DMA channel.
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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.
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Channel
To course through or over, as in a channel.
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Channel
A path over which electrical signals can pass;
A channel is typically what you rent from a telephone company
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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
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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)
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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
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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
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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
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Channel
A television station and its programs;
A satellite TV channel
Surfing through the channels
They offer more than one hundred channels
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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
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Channel
Transmit or serve as the medium for transmission;
Sound carries well over water
The airwaves carry the sound
Many metals conduct heat
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Channel
Direct the flow of;
Channel infomartion towards a broad audience
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Channel
Send from one person or place to another;
Transmit a message
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