Channel vs. Gutter: What's the Difference?

The bed of a stream or river.

A channel at the edge of a street or road for carrying off surface water.

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

A trough fixed under or along the eaves for draining rainwater from a roof. Also called regionally eaves trough, rainspout, spouting.

A broad strait, especially one that connects two seas.

A furrow or groove formed by running water.

A trench, furrow, or groove.

A trough or channel for carrying something off, such as that on either side of a bowling alley or that almost level with the water in some swimming pools.

A tubular passage for liquids; a conduit.

(Printing) The white space formed by the inner margins of two facing pages, as of a book.

A course or pathway through which information is transmitted

A degraded and squalid class or state of human existence.

Often channels A route of communication or access

To form gutters or furrows in

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

To provide with gutters.

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

To flow in channels or rivulets

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

To melt away through the side of the hollow formed by a burning wick. Used of a candle.

A company or other entity presenting such content.

To burn low and unsteadily; flicker

(Computers) A chatroom on an online network.

Vulgar, sordid, or unprincipled

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

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

A rolled metal bar with a bracket-shaped section.

A ditch along the side of a road.

See ion channel.

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

See protein channel.

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

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

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

To make or cut channels in.

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

To form a groove or flute in.

(typography) A space between printed columns of text.

To direct or guide along some desired course

(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.

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

(philately) An unprinted space between rows of stamps.

To use or follow as a model; imitate

(British) A drainage channel.

The physical confine of a river or slough, consisting of a bed and banks.

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

The natural or man-made deeper course through a reef, bar, bay, or any shallow body of water.

(figuratively) A low, vulgar state.

The navigable part of a river.

(comics) The spaces between comic book panels.

A narrow body of water between two land masses.

One who or that which guts.

Something through which another thing passes; a means of conveying or transmitting.

To flow or stream; to form gutters.

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

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

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

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

(electronics) A connection between initiating and terminating nodes of a circuit.

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

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

(transitive) To supply with a gutter or gutters.

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

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

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

A channel at the eaves of a roof for conveying away the rain; an eaves channel; an eaves trough.

(communication) A single path provided by a transmission medium via physical separation, such as by multipair cable.

A small channel at the roadside or elsewhere, to lead off surface water.

(communication) A single path provided by a transmission medium via spectral or protocol separation, such as by frequency or time-division multiplexing.

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

(broadcasting) A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies, usually in conjunction with a predetermined letter, number, or codeword, and allocated by international agreement.

Either of two sunken channels at either side of the bowling alley, leading directly to the sunken pit behind the pins. Balls not thrown accurately at the pins will drop into such a channel bypassing the pins, and resulting in a score of zero for that bowl.

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

To cut or form into small longitudinal hollows; to 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.

To supply with a gutter or gutters.

The part of a turbine pump where the pressure is built up.

To become channeled, as a candle when the flame flares in the wind.

A distribution channel

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

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

Misfortune resulting in lost effort or money;

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

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

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

A tool for gutting fish

(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.

Burn unsteadily, feebly, or low; flicker;

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

Flow in small streams;

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

Wear or cut gutters into;

To serve as a medium for.

Provide with gutters;

(transitive) To follow as a model, especially in a performance.

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

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

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

That through which anything passes; a means of passing, conveying, or transmitting; as, the news was conveyed to us by different channels.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

To form a channel in; to cut or wear a channel or channels in; to groove.

To course through or over, as in a channel.

A path over which electrical signals can pass;

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

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)

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;

(often plural) a means of communication or access;

A bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance;

A television station and its programs;

A way of selling a company's product either directly or via distributors;

Transmit or serve as the medium for transmission;

Direct the flow of;

Send from one person or place to another;