Channel vs Narrows - 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.
(narrow)
A narrow part of a navigable waterway.
Having a small width; not wide; slim; slender; having opposite edges or sides that are close, especially by comparison to length or depth.
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(figuratively) Restrictive; without flexibility or latitude.
Contracted; of limited scope; illiberal; bigoted.
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Having a small margin or degree.
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(dated) Limited as to means; straitened; pinching.
Parsimonious; niggardly; covetous; selfish.
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Scrutinizing in detail; close; accurate; exact.
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(phonetics) Formed (as a vowel) by a close position of some part of the tongue in relation to the palate; or (according to Bell) by a tense condition of the pharynx; distinguished from wide.
To reduce in width or extent; to contract.
To get narrower.
(knitting) To contract the size of, as a stocking, by taking two stitches into one.
(chiefly, in the plural) A narrow passage, especially a contracted part of a stream, lake, or sea; a strait connecting two bodies of water.
* Gladstone
Channel is a synonym of narrows.
As a proper noun channel
is (by ellipsis) the english channel.As a verb narrows is
(narrow).As a noun narrows is
a narrow part of a navigable waterway.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 .
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- 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)narrows
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(-)narrow
English
Adjective
(er)citation, passage=She was like a Beardsley Salome , he had said. And indeed she had the narrow eyes and the high cheekbone of that creature, and as nearly the sinuosity as is compatible with human symmetry.}}
citation, passage=Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime. Their bases were on a level with the pavement outside, a narrow way which was several feet lower than the road behind the house.}}
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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. That’s because the lenses that are excellent at magnifying tiny subjects produce a narrow depth of field. A photo processing technique called focus stacking has changed that.}}
- The Jews were but a small nation, and confined to a narrow compass in the world.
- a narrow''' mind; '''narrow views
- a narrow understanding
- The Republicans won by a narrow majority.
citation, passage=As in their narrow defeat of Argentina last week, England were indisciplined at the breakdown, and if Georgian fly-half Merab Kvirikashvili had remembered his kicking boots, Johnson's side might have been behind at half-time.}}
- narrow circumstances
- a very narrow and stinted charity
- But first with narrow search I must walk round / This garden, and no corner leave unspied.
Antonyms
* wide * broadDerived terms
* narrowboat, narrow boat * narrow-minded * narrownessVerb
(en verb)- We need to narrow the search.
- The road narrows .
Synonyms
* taperNoun
(en noun)- the Narrows of New York harbor
- Near the island lay on one side the jaws of a dangerous narrow .