Channel vs. Gutter

Channel vs. Gutter — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Channel and Gutter

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.

Gutternoun

A prepared channel in a surface, especially at the side of a road adjacent to a curb, intended for the drainage of water.

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.

Gutternoun

A ditch along the side of a road.

Channelnoun

The navigable part of a river.

We were careful to keep our boat in the channel.

Gutternoun

A duct or channel beneath the eaves of a building to carry rain water; eavestrough.

The gutters must be cleared of leaves a few times a year.
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Channelnoun

A narrow body of water between two land masses.

The English Channel lies between France and England.

Gutternoun

(bowling) A groove down the sides of a bowling lane.

Channelnoun

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

The news was conveyed to us by different channels.

Gutternoun

A large groove (commonly behind animals) in a barn used for the collection and removal of animal excrement.

Channelnoun

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

Gutternoun

Any narrow channel or groove, such as one formed by erosion in the vent of a gun from repeated firing.

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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.

Gutternoun

(typography) A space between printed columns of text.

Channelnoun

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

Gutternoun

(printing) One of a number of pieces of wood or metal, grooved in the centre, used to separate the pages of type in a form.

Channelnoun

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

A channel stretches between them.

Gutternoun

(philately) An unprinted space between rows of stamps.

Channelnoun

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

We are using one of the 24 channels.

Gutternoun

(British) A drainage channel.

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.

Gutternoun

The notional locus of things, acts, or events which are distasteful, ill bred or morally questionable.

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.

Gutternoun

(figuratively) A low, vulgar state.

Get your mind out of the gutter.What kind of gutter language is that? I ought to wash your mouth out with soap.

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.

Gutternoun

(comics) The spaces between comic book panels

Channelnoun

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

NBC is on channel 11 in San Jose.

Gutternoun

One who or that which guts.

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.

Gutterverb

To flow or stream; to form gutters.

Channelnoun

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

The liquid is pressurized in the lateral channel.

Gutterverb

(of a candle) To melt away by having the molten wax run down along the side of the candle.

Channelnoun

A distribution channel

Gutterverb

(of a small flame) To flicker as if about to be extinguished.

Channelnoun

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

Gutterverb

(transitive) To send (a bowling ball) into the gutter, not hitting any pins.

Channelnoun

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

Gutterverb

(transitive) To supply with a gutter or gutters.

Channelnoun

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

Gutterverb

(transitive) To cut or form into small longitudinal hollows; to channel.

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.

Gutternoun

a channel along the eaves or on the roof; collects and carries away rainwater

Channelverb

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

Gutternoun

misfortune resulting in lost effort or money;

his career was in the gutterall that work went down the sewerpensions are in the toilet

Channelverb

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

We will channel the traffic to the left with these cones.

Gutternoun

a worker who guts things (fish or buildings or cars etc.)

Channelverb

To serve as a medium for.

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

Gutternoun

a tool for gutting fish

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.

Gutterverb

burn unsteadily, feebly, or low; flicker;

The cooling lava continued to gutter toward lower ground

Channelnoun

a path over which electrical signals can pass;

a channel is typically what you rent from a telephone company

Gutterverb

flow in small streams;

Tears guttered down her face

Channelnoun

a passage for water (or other fluids) to flow through;

the fields were crossed with irrigation channelsgutters carried off the rainwater into a series of channels under the street

Gutterverb

wear or cut gutters into;

The heavy rain guttered the soil

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)

Gutterverb

provide with gutters;

gutter the buildings

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 channelslines 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 obstructedthe alimentary canalpoison is released through a channel in the snake's fangs

Channelnoun

a television station and its programs;

a satellite TV channelsurfing through the channelsthey 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 waterThe airwaves carry the soundMany 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