The difference between Channel and Station
When used as nouns, channel means the physical confine of a river or slough, consisting of a bed and banks, whereas station means the fact of standing still.
When used as verbs, channel means to make or cut a channel or groove in, whereas station means to put in place to perform a task.
check bellow for the other definitions of Channel and Station
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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."
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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."
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Channel as a noun:
The navigable part of a river.
Examples:
"We were careful to keep our boat in the channel."
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Channel as a noun:
A narrow body of water between two land masses.
Examples:
"The English Channel lies between France and England."
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Channel as a noun:
That through which anything passes; means of conveying or transmitting.
Examples:
"The news was conveyed to us by different channels."
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Channel as a noun:
A gutter; a groove, as in a fluted column.
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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."
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Channel as a noun (electronics):
The narrow conducting portion of a MOSFET transistor.
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Channel as a noun (communication):
The part that connects a data source to a data sink.
Examples:
"A channel stretches between them."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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Channel as a noun (business, marketing):
A distribution channel
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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.
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Channel as a noun (Internet):
An obsolete means of delivering up-to-date Internet content.
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Channel as a noun:
A psychic or medium who temporarily takes on the personality of somebody else.
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Channel as a verb (transitive):
To make or cut a channel or groove in.
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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."
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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."
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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."
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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.
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Station as a noun (obsolete):
The fact of standing still; motionlessness, stasis.
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Station as a noun (astronomy):
The apparent standing still of a superior planet just before it begins or ends its retrograde motion.
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Station as a noun (US):
A stopping place. A regular stopping place for ground transportation. A ground transportation depot. A place where one stands or stays or is assigned to stand or stay. A gas station, service station.
Examples:
"The next station is Esperanza."
"It's right across from the bus station."
"From my station at the front door, I greeted every visitor."
"All ships are on station, Admiral."
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Station as a noun (Australia, New Zealand):
A place where workers are stationed. An official building from which police or firefighters operate. A place where one performs a task or where one is on call to perform a task. A military base. A place used for broadcasting radio or television. A very large sheep or cattle farm.
Examples:
"The police station is opposite the fire station."
"The waitress was at her station preparing three checks."
" The station is part of a group of stations run by the Chinese Academy of Sciences. [[File:The station is part of a group of stations.ogg]]"
"She had a boyfriend at the station."
"I used to work at a radio station."
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Station as a noun:
One of the Stations of the Cross.
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Station as a noun:
The Roman Catholic fast of the fourth and sixth days of the week, Wednesday and Friday, in memory of the council which condemned Christ, and of his passion.
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Station as a noun:
A church in which the procession of the clergy halts on stated days to say stated prayers.
Examples:
"rfquotek Addis & Arnold"
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Station as a noun:
Standing; rank; position.
Examples:
"She had ambitions beyond her station."
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Station as a noun:
A broadcasting entity.
Examples:
"I used to listen to that radio station."
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Station as a noun (Newfoundland):
A harbour or cove with a foreshore suitable for a facility to support nearby fishing.
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Station as a noun (surveying):
Any of a sequence of equally spaced points along a path.
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Station as a noun:
The particular place, or kind of situation, in which a species naturally occurs; a habitat.
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Station as a noun (mining):
An enlargement in a shaft or galley, used as a landing, or passing place, or for the accommodation of a pump, tank, etc.
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Station as a noun:
Post assigned; office; the part or department of public duty which a person is appointed to perform; sphere of duty or occupation; employment.
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Station as a noun (medicine):
The position of the foetal head in relation to the distance from the ischial spines, measured in centimetres.
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Station as a verb:
To put in place to perform a task.
Examples:
"The host stationed me at the front door to greet visitors."
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Station as a verb:
To put in place to perform military duty.
Examples:
"They stationed me overseas just as fighting broke out."