Channel vs. Gutter
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.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.
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 toiletChannelverb
(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 groundChannelnoun
a path over which electrical signals can pass;
a channel is typically what you rent from a telephone companyGutterverb
flow in small streams;
Tears guttered down her faceChannelnoun
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 streetGutterverb
wear or cut gutters into;
The heavy rain guttered the soilChannelnoun
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 buildingsChannelnoun
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 channelChannelnoun
(often plural) a means of communication or access;
it must go through official channelslines of communication were set up between the two firmsChannelnoun
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 fangsChannelnoun
a television station and its programs;
a satellite TV channelsurfing through the channelsthey offer more than one hundred channelsChannelnoun
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 storesChannelverb
transmit or serve as the medium for transmission;
Sound carries well over waterThe airwaves carry the soundMany metals conduct heatChannelverb
direct the flow of;
channel infomartion towards a broad audienceChannelverb
send from one person or place to another;
transmit a message
