Stream vs. Channel

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Streamnoun

A small river; a large creek; a body of moving water confined by banks.

Streamnoun

A thin connected passing of a liquid through a lighter gas (e.g. air).

Streamnoun

Any steady flow or succession of material, such as water, air, radio signal or words.

Streamnoun

All moving waters.

Streamnoun

(computing) A source or repository of data that can be read or written only sequentially.

Streamnoun

(figurative) A particular path, channel, division, or way of proceeding.

Streamnoun

A division of a school year by perceived ability.

Streamverb

(intransitive) To flow in a continuous or steady manner, like a liquid.

Streamverb

To extend; to stretch out with a wavy motion; to float in the wind.

Streamverb

(Internet) To push continuous data (e.g. music) from a server to a client computer while it is being used (played) on the client.

Streamnoun

A current of water or other fluid; a liquid flowing continuously in a line or course, either on the earth, as a river, brook, etc., or from a vessel, reservoir, or fountain; specifically, any course of running water; as, many streams are blended in the Mississippi; gas and steam came from the earth in streams; a stream of molten lead from a furnace; a stream of lava from a volcano.

Streamnoun

A beam or ray of light.

Streamnoun

Anything issuing or moving with continued succession of parts; as, a stream of words; a stream of sand.

Streamnoun

A continued current or course; as, a stream of weather.

Streamnoun

Current; drift; tendency; series of tending or moving causes; as, the stream of opinions or manners.

Streamverb

To issue or flow in a stream; to flow freely or in a current, as a fluid or whatever is likened to fluids; as, tears streamed from her eyes.

Streamverb

To pour out, or emit, a stream or streams.

Streamverb

To issue in a stream of light; to radiate.

Streamverb

To extend; to stretch out with a wavy motion; to float in the wind; as, a flag streams in the wind.

Streamverb

To send forth in a current or stream; to cause to flow; to pour; as, his eyes streamed tears.

Streamverb

To mark with colors or embroidery in long tracts.

Streamverb

To unfurl.

Streamnoun

a natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth

Streamnoun

dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas;

Streamnoun

a steady flow (usually from natural causes);

Streamnoun

the act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression

Streamnoun

something that resembles a flowing stream in moving continuously;

Streamverb

to extend, wave or float outward, as if in the wind;

Streamverb

exude profusely;

Streamverb

move in large numbers;

Streamverb

rain heavily;

Streamverb

flow freely and abundantly;

Streamnoun

a small, narrow river

Streamnoun

a continuous flow of liquid, air, or gas

Streamnoun

a mass of people or things moving continuously in the same direction

Streamnoun

a large number of things that happen or come one after the other

Streamnoun

a continuous flow of data or instructions, typically one having a constant or predictable rate.

Streamnoun

a continuous flow of video and audio material transmitted or received over the Internet.

Streamnoun

a group in which schoolchildren of the same age and ability are taught.

Streamverb

(of liquid, air, gas, etc.) run or flow in a continuous current in a specified direction

Streamverb

(of a mass of people or things) move in a continuous flow in a specified direction

Streamverb

run with tears, sweat, or other liquid

Streamverb

(of hair, clothing, etc.) float or wave at full extent in the wind

Streamverb

transmit or receive (data, especially video and audio material) over the Internet as a steady, continuous flow.

Streamverb

put (schoolchildren) in groups of the same age and ability to be taught together.

Stream

A stream is a body of water with surface water flowing within the bed and banks of a channel. The flow of a stream is controlled by three inputs – surface water, subsurface water and groundwater.

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;