The difference between Channel and Sound

When used as nouns, channel means the physical confine of a river or slough, consisting of a bed and banks, whereas sound means a sensation perceived by the ear caused by the vibration of air or some other medium.

When used as verbs, channel means to make or cut a channel or groove in, whereas sound means to produce a sound.

Sound is also interjection with the meaning: yes.

Sound is also adverb with the meaning: soundly.

Sound is also adjective with the meaning: healthy.

check bellow for the other definitions of Channel and Sound

  1. Channel as a noun:

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

    Examples:

    "The water coming out of the waterwheel created a standing wave in the channel."

  2. Channel as a noun:

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

    Examples:

    "A channel was dredged to allow ocean-going vessels to reach the city."

  3. Channel as a noun:

    The navigable part of a river.

    Examples:

    "We were careful to keep our boat in the channel."

  4. Channel as a noun:

    A narrow body of water between two land masses.

    Examples:

    "The English Channel lies between France and England."

  5. Channel as a noun:

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

    Examples:

    "The news was conveyed to us by different channels."

  6. Channel as a noun:

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

  7. Channel as a noun (electronics):

    A connection between initiating and terminating nodes of a circuit.

    Examples:

    "The guard-rail provided the channel between the downed wire and the tree."

  8. Channel as a noun (electronics):

    The narrow conducting portion of a MOSFET transistor.

  9. Channel as a noun (communication):

    The part that connects a data source to a data sink.

    Examples:

    "A channel stretches between them."

  10. Channel as a noun (communication):

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

    Examples:

    "We are using one of the 24 channels."

  11. Channel as a noun (communication):

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

    Examples:

    "The channel is created by bonding the signals from these four pairs."

  12. Channel as a noun (communication):

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

    Examples:

    "Their call is being carried on channel 6 of the T-1 line."

  13. Channel as a noun (broadcasting):

    A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies, usually in conjunction with a predetermined letter, number, or codeword, and allocated by international agreement.

    Examples:

    "KNDD is the channel at 107.7 MHz in Seattle."

  14. Channel as a noun (broadcasting):

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

    Examples:

    "NBC is on channel 11 in San Jose."

  15. Channel as a noun (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.

    Examples:

    "This chip in this disk drive is the channel device."

  16. Channel as a noun (technic):

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

    Examples:

    "The liquid is pressurized in the lateral channel."

  17. Channel as a noun (business, marketing):

    A distribution channel

  18. Channel as a noun (Internet):

    A particular area for conversations on an IRC network, analogous to a chatroom and often dedicated to a specific topic.

  19. Channel as a noun (Internet):

    An obsolete means of delivering up-to-date Internet content.

  20. Channel as a noun:

    A psychic or medium who temporarily takes on the personality of somebody else.

  1. Channel as a verb (transitive):

    To make or cut a channel or groove in.

  2. Channel as a verb (transitive):

    To direct or guide along a desired course.

    Examples:

    "We will channel the traffic to the left with these cones."

  3. Channel as a verb (transitive, of a spirit, as of a dead person):

    To serve as a medium for.

    Examples:

    "She was channeling the spirit of her late husband, Seth."

  4. Channel as a verb (transitive):

    To follow as a model, especially in a performance.

    Examples:

    "He was trying to channel President Reagan, but the audience wasn't buying it."

    "When it is my turn to sing karaoke, I am going to channel Ray Charles."

  1. Channel as a noun (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.

  1. Sound as an adjective:

    Healthy.

    Examples:

    "He was safe and sound."

    "In horse management a sound horse is one with no health problems that might affect its suitability for its intended work."

  2. Sound as an adjective:

    Complete, solid, or secure.

    Examples:

    "Fred assured me the floorboards were sound."

  3. Sound as an adjective (mathematics, logic):

    Having the property of soundness.

  4. Sound as an adjective (British, slang):

    Good; acceptable; decent.

    Examples:

    "How are you?" - "I'm sound."

    "That's a sound track you're playing."

    "See that man over there? He's sound. You should get to know him."

  5. Sound as an adjective (of sleep):

    Quiet and deep.

    Examples:

    "Her sleep was sound."

  6. Sound as an adjective:

    Heavy; laid on with force.

    Examples:

    "a sound beating"

  7. Sound as an adjective:

    Founded in law; legal; valid; not defective.

    Examples:

    "a sound title to land"

  1. Sound as an adverb:

    Soundly.

  1. Sound as a noun:

    A sensation perceived by the ear caused by the vibration of air or some other medium.

    Examples:

    "He turned when he heard the sound of footsteps nowrap behind him.  nowrap Nobody made a sound."

  2. Sound as a noun:

    A vibration capable of causing such sensations.

  3. Sound as a noun (music):

    A distinctive style and sonority of a particular musician, orchestra etc

  4. Sound as a noun:

    Noise without meaning; empty noise.

  5. Sound as a noun:

    , distance within which a certain noise may be heard.

    Examples:

    "Stay within the sound of my voice."

  1. Sound as a verb (intransitive):

    To produce a sound.

    Examples:

    "When the horn sounds, take cover."

  2. Sound as a verb (copulative):

    To convey an impression by one's sound.

    Examples:

    "He sounded good when we last spoke."

    "That story sounds like a pack of lies!"

  3. Sound as a verb (intransitive):

    To be conveyed in sound; to be spread or published; to convey intelligence by sound.

  4. Sound as a verb (intransitive, obsolete):

    To resound.

  5. Sound as a verb (intransitive, legal, often, with ''in''):

    To arise or to be recognizable as arising in or from a particular area of law.

  6. Sound as a verb (transitive):

    To cause to produce a sound.

    Examples:

    "Sound the alarm!"

    "He sounds the instrument."

  7. Sound as a verb (transitive, phonetics, of a vowel or consonant):

    To pronounce.

    Examples:

    "The "e" in "house" isn't sounded."

  1. Sound as a noun (geography):

    A long narrow inlet, or a strait between the mainland and an island; also, a strait connecting two seas, or connecting a sea or lake with the ocean.

    Examples:

    "Puget Sound; Owen Sound"

  2. Sound as a noun:

    The air bladder of a fish.

    Examples:

    "Cod sounds are an esteemed article of food."

  3. Sound as a noun:

    A cuttlefish.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Ainsworth"

  1. Sound as a verb (intransitive):

    Dive downwards, used of a whale.

    Examples:

    "The whale sounded and eight hundred feet of heavy line streaked out of the line tub before he ended his dive."

  2. Sound as a verb:

    To ascertain, or try to ascertain, the thoughts, motives, and purposes of (a person); to examine; to try; to test; to probe.

    Examples:

    "When I sounded him, he appeared to favor the proposed deal."

  3. Sound as a verb:

    Test; ascertain the depth of water with a sounding line or other device.

    Examples:

    "Mariners on sailing ships would sound the depth of the water with a weighted rope."

  4. Sound as a verb (medicine):

    To examine with the instrument called a sound or sonde, or by auscultation or percussion.

    Examples:

    "to sound a patient, or the bladder or urethra"

  1. Sound as a noun (medicine):

    An instrument for probing or dilating; a .

  1. Sound as a noun:

    A long, thin probe for sounding body cavities or canals such as the urethra.

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