Channel vs Change - What's the difference?
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The physical confine of a river or slough, consisting of a bed and banks.
The natural or man-made deeper course through a reef, bar, bay, or any shallow body of water.
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The navigable part of a river.
A narrow body of water between two land masses.
That through which anything passes; means of conveying or transmitting.
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A gutter; a groove, as in a fluted column.
(nautical, in the plural) 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.
(electronics) A connection between initiating]] and [[terminate, terminating nodes of a circuit.
(electronics) The narrow conducting portion of a MOSFET transistor.
(communication) The part that connects a data source to a data sink.
(communication) A path for conveying electrical or electromagnetic signals, usually distinguished from other parallel paths.
(communication) A single path provided by a transmission medium via physical separation, such as by multipair cable.
(communication) A single path provided by a transmission medium via spectral or protocol separation, such as by frequency or time-division multiplexing.
(broadcasting) A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies, usually in conjunction with a predetermined letter, number, or codeword, and allocated by international agreement.
(broadcasting) A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies used for transmitting television.
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(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.
(technic) The way in a turbine pump where the pressure is built up.
(business, marketing) A distribution channel
(Internet) A particular area for conversations on an IRC network, analogous to a chatroom and often dedicated to a specific topic.
(Internet) An obsolete means of delivering up-to-date Internet content.
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A psychic or medium who temporarily takes on the personality of somebody else.
To direct the flow of something.
To assume the personality of another person, typically a historic figure, in a theatrical or paranormal presentation.
(nautical) The wale of a sailing ship which projects beyond the gunwale and to which the shrouds attach via the chains.
To become something different.
(ergative) To make something into something different.
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To replace one's clothing.
To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.)
(archaic) To exchange.
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To change hand while riding (a horse).
(countable) The process of becoming different.
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(uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
(countable) A replacement, e.g. a change of clothes
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(uncountable) Money given back when a customer hands over more than the exact price of an item.
(countable) A transfer between vehicles.
(baseball) A change-up pitch.
(lb) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
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A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; an exchange.
A public house; an alehouse.
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As a proper noun channel
is (by ellipsis) the english channel.As a noun change is
(lb) change.channel
English
(wikipedia channel)Etymology 1
From (etyl) chenel (French: '', ''chenal ), from (etyl)Noun
(en noun)- ''The water coming out of the waterwheel created a standing wave in the channel .
citation, passage=European adventurers found themselves within a watery world, a tapestry of streams, channels , wetlands, lakes and lush riparian meadows enriched by floodwaters from the Mississippi River.}}
- A channel was dredged to allow ocean-going vessels to reach the city.
- We were careful to keep our boat in the channel .
- The English Channel lies between France and England.
- The news was conveyed to us by different channels .
- The veins are converging channels .
- At best, he is but a channel to convey to the National Assembly such matter as may import that body to know.
- The guard-rail provided the channel between the downed wire and the tree.
- A channel stretches between them.
- We are using one of the 24 channels .
- The channel is created by bonding the signals from these four pairs.
- Their call is being carried on channel 6 of the T-1 line.
- KNDD is the channel at 107.7 MHz in Seattle.
- NBC is on channel 11 in San Jose.
- TV back then was five channels (three networks, PBS, and an independent station that ran I Love Lucy reruns),
- This chip in this disk drive is the channel device.
- The liquid is pressurized in the lateral channel .
- Netcaster is the "receiver" for channels that are built into Netscape 4.01 and later releases.
- To access channels in Windows 98, you don't have to go any farther than your desktop.
Synonyms
* (narrow body of water between two land masses) passage, sound, strait * (for television) side , station (US)Derived terms
* channel-hopping * change the channel * ion channel * television channelVerb
- We will channel the traffic to the left with these cones.
- When it is my turn to sing karaoke, I am going to channel Ray Charles.
Derived terms
* backchannelEtymology 2
From chainwaleNoun
(en noun)change
English
Verb
(chang)citation, passage=Of all the transitions brought about on the Earth’s surface by temperature change, the melting of ice into water is the starkest. It is binary. And for the land beneath, the air above and the life around, it changes everything.}}
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Focus on Everything, passage=Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus.
- At the first sight / they have changed eyes. (exchanged looks )
- I would give any thing to change a word or two with this person.
- to change a horse
Synonyms
* (to make something different) alter, modify * (to make something into something different) transformDerived terms
* changeable * change by reversal * change course * change direction * changeful * change out * change hands * change horses in midstream * change integrity * changeling * change one's mind * change one's tune * change places * change tack * change the channel * change the subject * change up * chop and change * everchanging * get changed * leopard change his spots * presto change-o *Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=Of all the transitions brought about on the Earth’s surface by temperature change , the melting of ice into water is the starkest. It is binary. And for the land beneath, the air above and the life around, it changes everything.}}
- The product is undergoing a change in order to improve it.
- Can I get change for this $100 bill please?
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- A customer who pays with a 10-pound note for a £9 item receives one pound in change .
- The train journey from Bristol to Nottingham includes a change at Birmingham.
- Four bells admit twenty-four changes in ringing.
- They call an alehouse a change .
