River vs. Channel

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Rivernoun

A large and often winding stream which drains a land mass, carrying water down from higher areas to a lower point, ending at an ocean or in an inland sea.

Rivernoun

Any large flow of a liquid in a single body.

Rivernoun

(poker) The last card dealt in a hand.

Rivernoun

(typography) A visually undesirable effect of white space running down a page, caused by spaces between words on consecutive lines happening to coincide.

Rivernoun

One who rives or splits.

Riververb

(poker) To improve one’s hand to beat another player on the final card in a poker game.

Rivernoun

One who rives or splits.

Rivernoun

A large stream of water flowing in a bed or channel and emptying into the ocean, a sea, a lake, or another stream; a stream larger than a rivulet or brook.

Rivernoun

Fig.: A large stream; copious flow; abundance; as, rivers of blood; rivers of oil.

Riververb

To hawk by the side of a river; to fly hawks at river fowl.

Rivernoun

a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek);

Rivernoun

a large natural stream of water flowing in a channel to the sea, a lake, or another river

Rivernoun

a large quantity of a flowing substance

Rivernoun

used in names of animals and plants living in or associated with rivers, e.g. river dolphin.

River

A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river. In some cases, a river flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of water.

Channelnoun

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

Channelnoun

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

Channelnoun

The navigable part of a river.

Channelnoun

A narrow body of water between two land masses.

Channelnoun

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

Channelnoun

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

Channelnoun

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

Channelnoun

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

Channelnoun

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

Channelnoun

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

Channelnoun

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

Channelnoun

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

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.

Channelnoun

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

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.

Channelnoun

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

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.

Channelverb

To serve as a medium for.

Channelverb

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

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.

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.

Channelverb

To course through or over, as in a channel.

Channelnoun

a path over which electrical signals can pass;

Channelnoun

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

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;

Channelnoun

(often plural) a means of communication or access;

Channelnoun

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

Channelnoun

a television station and its programs;

Channelnoun

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

Channelverb

transmit or serve as the medium for transmission;

Channelverb

direct the flow of;