Strait vs. Channel

Straitadjective

(archaic) Narrow; restricted as to space or room; close.

Straitadjective

(archaic) Righteous, strict.

Straitadjective

(obsolete) Tight; close; tight-fitting.

Straitadjective

(obsolete) Close; intimate; near; familiar.

Straitadjective

(obsolete) Difficult; distressful.

Straitadjective

(obsolete) Parsimonious; stingy; mean.

Straitnoun

(geography) A narrow channel of water connecting two larger bodies of water.

Straitnoun

A narrow pass or passage.

Straitnoun

A neck of land; an isthmus.

Straitnoun

A difficult position (often used in plural).

Straitverb

(obsolete) To confine; put to difficulties.

Straitadverb

(obsolete) Strictly; rigorously.

Straitadjective

A variant of Straight.

Straitadjective

Narrow; not broad.

Straitadjective

Tight; close; closely fitting.

Straitadjective

Close; intimate; near; familiar.

Straitadjective

Strict; scrupulous; rigorous.

Straitadjective

Difficult; distressful; straited.

Straitadjective

Parsimonious; niggargly; mean.

Straitadverb

Strictly; rigorously.

Straitnoun

A narrow pass or passage.

Straitnoun

A (comparatively) narrow passageway connecting two large bodies of water; - often in the plural; as, the strait, or straits, of Gibraltar; the straits of Magellan; the strait, or straits, of Mackinaw.

Straitnoun

A neck of land; an isthmus.

Straitnoun

Fig.: A condition of narrowness or restriction; doubt; distress; difficulty; poverty; perplexity; - sometimes in the plural; as, reduced to great straits.

Straitverb

To put to difficulties.

Straitnoun

a narrow channel of the sea joining two larger bodies of water

Straitnoun

a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs

Straitadjective

strict and severe;

Strait

A strait is a naturally formed, narrow, typically navigable waterway that connects two larger bodies of water. Most commonly it is a channel of water that lies between two land masses.

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;

Channelverb

send from one person or place to another;

Channelnoun

a length of water wider than a strait, joining two larger areas of water, especially two seas.

Channelnoun

the English Channel

Channelnoun

a navigable passage in a stretch of water otherwise unsafe for vessels

Channelnoun

a hollow bed for a natural or artificial waterway

Channelnoun

a band of frequencies used in radio and television transmission, especially as used by a particular station.

Channelnoun

a service or station using a channel of frequencies

Channelnoun

a method or system for communication or distribution

Channelnoun

an electric circuit which acts as a path for a signal

Channelnoun

the semiconductor region in a field-effect transistor that forms the main current path between the source and the drain.

Channelnoun

a tubular passage or duct for liquid

Channelverb

direct towards a particular end or object

Channelverb

cause to pass along or through a specified route or medium

Channelverb

(of a person) serve as a medium for (a spirit)

Channelverb

emulate or seem to be inspired by

Channelverb

form channels or grooves in