different between channel vs cana

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?æn?l/
• Hyphenation: chan?nel
• Rhymes: -æn?l

Etymology 1

From Middle English chanel (also as canel, cannel, kanel), a borrowing from Old French chanel, canel, from Latin can?lis (“groove; canal; channel”). Doublet of canal.

Noun

channel (plural channels)

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

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

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

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

3. The navigable part of a river.

   We were careful to keep our boat in the channel.

4. A narrow body of water between two land masses.

   The English Channel lies between France and England.
5. Something through which another thing passes; a means of conveying or transmitting.

   The news was conveyed to us by different channels.

   • 1859, John Call Dalton, A Treatise on Human Physiology

     The veins are converging channels.

   • 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France

     At best, he is but a channel to convey to the National Assembly such matter as may import that body to know.

6. A gutter; a groove, as in a fluted column.
7. (electronics) A connection between initiating and terminating nodes of a circuit.

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

8. (electronics) The narrow conducting portion of a MOSFET transistor.
9. (communication) The part that connects a data source to a data sink.

   A channel stretches between them.

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

    We are using one of the 24 channels.

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

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

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

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

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

    KNDD is the channel at 107.7 MHz in Seattle.

14. (broadcasting) A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies used for transmitting television.

    NBC is on channel 11 in San Jose.

    • 2008, Lou Schuler, "Foreward", in Nate Green, Built for Show, page xi

      TV back then was five channels (three networks, PBS, and an independent station that ran I Love Lucy reruns), […]

15. (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.

    This chip in this disk drive is the channel device.

16. (technic) The way in a turbine pump where the pressure is built up.

    The liquid is pressurized in the lateral channel.

17. (business, marketing) A distribution channel
18. (Internet) A particular area for conversations on an IRC network, analogous to a chat room and often dedicated to a specific topic.
19. (Internet, historical) A means of delivering up-to-date Internet content.
    • 1999, Jeffrey S Rule, Dynamic HTML: The HTML Developer's Guide

      Netcaster is the "receiver" for channels that are built into Netscape 4.01 and later releases.
20. A psychic or medium who temporarily takes on the personality of somebody else.

Synonyms

• (narrow body of water between two land masses) passage, sound, strait
• (for television) side (dated British, from when there were only two channels), station (US)
• (groove, as in a fluted column) groove, gutter

Derived terms

Related terms

• canal

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ????? (channeru)
• ? Korean: ?? (chaeneol)
• ? Welsh: sianel

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English chanelen, from the noun (see above).

Verb

channel (third-person singular simple present channels, present participle channeling or channelling, simple past and past participle channelled or channeled)

1. (transitive) To make or cut a channel or groove in.
2. (transitive) To direct or guide along a desired course.

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

3. (transitive, of a spirit, as of a dead person) To serve as a medium for.

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

4. (transitive) To follow as a model, especially in a performance.

   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.

Derived terms

• backchannel

Translations

Etymology 3

From a corruption of chainwale.

Noun

channel (plural channels)

1. (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.

References

• channel at OneLook Dictionary Search

Catalan

Etymology

Latin canna.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?ka.n?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?ka.na/

Noun

cana f (plural canes)

1. Archaic form of canya.
2. (historical) unit of length of eight pams (“handspans”); ~1.60m

Derived terms

• acanar
• trescanar

Related terms

• canya

Further reading

• “cana” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “cana” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.

Classical Nahuatl

Adverb

cana

1. Alternative spelling of canah

Galician

Etymology 1

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese, from Latin canna (“reed”), from Ancient Greek ????? (kánna, “reed”), from Akkadian ???? (qanû, “reed”), from Sumerian ???????? (gi.na).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kana?/

Noun

cana f (plural canas)

1. (botany) cane, reed (any plant with a fibrous, elongated stalk, such as a sugarcane or bamboo)
   1. the stem of such plants
   2. (botany) giant reed (Arundo donax)
   3. (botany) sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum, tropical grass from which sugar is extracted)

      Synonym: cana de azucre

   4. fishing rod

      Synonym: cana de pescar

   5. a slender twig
      • c1350, Kelvin M. Parker (ed.), Historia Troyana. Santiago: Instituto Padre Sarmiento, page 194:

        outros que nõ an boca senõ tã estreyta [como] h?a cana de avelão

        and others that almost have no mouth, but one so narrow as a hazel twig

      Synonym: cimbra

   6. (nautical) tiller
   7. shaft
   8. shaft of a boot

Derived terms

• cana de azucre
• cana de bafordos
• cana de pescar
• cana do óso
• canal
• canedo
• canela
• cano
• cañoto

Related terms

• canavela

Etymology 2

From Latin canus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kana?/

Noun

cana f (plural canas)

1. white or gray hair

Adjective

cana

1. feminine singular of cano

References

• “cana” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “cana” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “cana” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “cana” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “cana” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kan??/

Etymology 1

From Middle Irish cana.

Noun

cana m (genitive singular canann)

1. cub, whelp
2. bardic poet of the fourth order

Declension

Synonyms

• (young animal): coileán, samhairle
• (poet): ánradh (“second-order bard”), clí (“third-order bard”)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

cana

1. present subjunctive of can

Mutation

Further reading

• "cana" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 cana”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ka.na/
• Hyphenation: cà?na

Etymology 1

Clipping of canapa (“hemp”).

Noun

cana f (plural cane)

1. (rare) marijuana cigarette, joint

   Synonym: spinello

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Adjective

cana

1. feminine singular of cano

Anagrams

• anca, ANCA

Latin

Adjective

c?na

1. inflection of c?nus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/vocative/accusative neuter plural

Adjective

c?n?

1. ablative feminine singular of c?nus

References

• cana in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• cana in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• cana in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

Middle Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish cano, cana, probably from Latin canis (“dog”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kan?/

Noun

cana m

1. cub

   Synonym: cuilén

2. puppy

   Synonym: cuilén

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Scottish Gaelic: cana
• Irish: cana

Mutation

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 cana”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• canna (superseded)

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?k?.na/, /?k?.n?/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?k?.n?/
• Hyphenation: ca?na

Etymology 1

From Latin canna (“reed”), from Ancient Greek ????? (kánna, “reed”), from Akkadian ???? (qanû, “reed”), from Sumerian ???????? (gi.na).

Noun

cana f (plural canas)

1. (botany) cane, reed (any plant with a fibrous, elongated stalk, such as a sugarcane or bamboo)
2. (botany) sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum, tropical grass from which sugar is extracted)

   Synonym: cana-de-açúcar

3. (botany) canna (any plant of the genus Canna)
4. cane (walking stick)

   Synonym: bengala

5. (Brazil, informal) cachaça (Brazilian rum made of sugarcane)

   Synonyms: aguardente, aguardente de cana, cachaça, (Rio Grande do Sul) canha, pinga

Derived terms

• caninha, canazinha (diminutives)

Related terms

Etymology 2

Unknown, but compare Rioplatense Spanish cana.

Noun

cana f (plural canas)

1. (Brazil, slang) jail; prison

   Synonyms: cadeia, prisão, (Brazil, slang) xadrez

Noun

cana m, f (plural canas)

1. (Brazil, slang) cop; police officer

   Synonyms: polícia, policial, (slang) tira

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?kana]

Noun

cana f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of can?

Scottish Gaelic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?an?/

Etymology 1

According to MacBain, apparently related to sense 2 (“wolf pup”) by transference.

Noun

cana m (genitive singular cana, plural canachan)

1. killer whale, orca, grampus

   Synonym: mada-chuain

2. porpoise

   Synonyms: pèileag, puthag

3. sturgeon

   Synonyms: bradan-sligeach, bradan-cearr

4. Order of poets, inferior to an ollamh.

Etymology 2

From Middle Irish and Old Irish cana, from Proto-Celtic *kanaw? (compare Welsh cenau).

Noun

cana m

1. puppy, whelp

Etymology 3

Borrowed from English can.

Noun

cana m (genitive singular cana, plural canaichean)

1. can, tin

   Synonym: canastair

Mutation

Further reading

• MacBain, Alexander; Mackay, Eneas (1911) , “cana”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, ?ISBN, page cana

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kana/, [?ka.na]
• Hyphenation: ca?na

Etymology 1

From Latin c?na, feminine of c?nus (“hoary”), or derived from the feminine of Spanish cano. Compare Portuguese cã.

Noun

cana f (plural canas)

1. white or gray hair

Related terms

Etymology 2

From a Lunfardo slang term for police.

Noun

cana f (uncountable)

1. (Argentina, Uruguay) police force, police department
2. (Argentina, Chile, Uruguay) jail, prison

Noun

cana m or f (plural canas)

1. (Argentina, Uruguay) policeman, policewoman

Etymology 3

Adjective

cana

1. feminine singular of cano

Further reading

• “cana” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Anagrams

• anca

References

Venetian

Etymology

From Latin canna (“reed”), from Ancient Greek ????? (kánna, “reed”), from Akkadian ???? (qanû, “reed”), from Sumerian ???????? (gi.na).

Noun

cana f (plural cane)

1. tube
2. pipe

Welsh

Alternative forms

• cân (literary, third-person singular present/future; literary, second-person singular imperative)
• canaf (first-person singular future)

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /?kana/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /?ka?na/, /?kana/

Verb

cana

1. inflection of canu:
   1. (colloquial) first-person singular future
   2. (literary) third-person singular present indicative/future
   3. second-person singular imperative

Mutation