different between channel vs canal

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

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French canal, from Old French canal, from Latin can?lis (“channel; canal”), from can?lis (“canal”), from canna (“reed, cane”), from Ancient Greek ????? (kánna, “reed”), from Akkadian ???? (qanû, “reed”), from Sumerian ???????? (gi.na). Doublet of channel.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??næl/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /k??næl/, /k??n?l/
• Rhymes: -æl

Noun

canal (plural canals)

1. An artificial waterway or artificially improved river used for travel, shipping, or irrigation.
2. (anatomy) A tubular channel within the body.
3. (astronomy) One of the faint, hazy markings resembling straight lines on early telescopic images of the surface of Mars.

Related terms

• channel
• channelization
• channelize
• canalization
• canalize

Descendants

• ? Scottish Gaelic: canàl

Translations

Verb

canal (third-person singular simple present canals, present participle canaling or canalling, simple past and past participle canaled or canalled)

1. To dig an artificial waterway in or to (a place), especially for drainage
2. To travel along a canal by boat

Anagrams

• Alcan, Clana, Nalca

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin can?lis.

Noun

canal f (plural canales)

1. canal (artificial waterway)

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin can?lis (“channel; canal”).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /k??nal/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ka?nal/

Noun

canal m (plural canals)

1. canal; channel (artificial passage for water)
2. roof gutter

   Synonyms: canaló, ràfec

Derived terms

• canalitzar

Further reading

• “canal” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “canal” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “canal” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “canal” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin can?lis. Doublet of chenal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.nal/

Noun

canal m (plural canaux)

1. canal
2. channel (broadcasting: specific radio frequency or band of frequencies)

Derived terms

• canal nommé

Related terms

• chenal

Descendants

• ? Persian: ?????? (kânâl)
• ? Romanian: canal
• ? Turkish: kanal

See also

• chaîne

Further reading

• “canal” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• lança

Galician

Etymology 1

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese canal (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria): cana (“cane, reed”) +? -al. Cognate with Spanish cañal.

Alternative forms

• canar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka?nal/

Noun

canal m (plural canais)

1. (dated) fish-weir; place or installation for fishing, on a river
   • 1375, A. López Ferreiro (ed.), Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática. Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 385:

     V casares en Cesar os quaes fforon de Mayor Aras moller de Martin Sanchez Xarpa com huum paaço et con huum canal enno Tamare.

     5 farmhouses in Cesar, which belonged to Maior Aras, wife of Martín Sánchez Xarpa, with a manor and a fishery on the river Tambre

   Synonyms: caneiro, pesqueira

Etymology 2

Borrowing from Latin canalis. Doublet of canle and cal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka?nal/

Noun

canal m (plural canais)

1. canal
2. channel

References

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

Norman

Etymology

From Old French canal, from Latin can?lis (“channel; canal”).

Noun

canal m (plural canaux)

1. (Jersey) canal

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese canal, from Latin can?lis (“canal”), from canna (“reed, cane”), from Ancient Greek ????? (kánna, “reed”), from Akkadian ???? (qanû, “reed”), from Sumerian ???????? (gi.na). This form may possibly be an early borrowing or semi-learned term; cf. the fully inherited doublet cale, and related calha.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ka.?naw/, /k?.?naw/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /k?.?na?/

Noun

canal m (plural canais)

1. ditch

   Synonyms: canaleta, vala, valeta

2. canal (artificial waterway)
3. (radio) channel (broadcasting: specific radio frequency or band of frequencies)
4. (television) television channel

Derived terms

• (canal): canal-do-Panamá

Related terms

• cale
• calha

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French canal, Latin can?lis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka?nal/

Noun

canal n (plural canale or canaluri)

1. (plural canaluri) canal
2. channel

Declension

Further reading

• canal in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Spanish

Etymology

From Old Spanish canal, from Latin can?lis (“channel; canal”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka?nal/, [ka?nal]
• Rhymes: -al

Noun

canal m (plural canales)

1. canal, flume, waterway (artificial)
2. channel (wide strait)
3. (communication) channel
4. (chemistry) channel
5. cleavage

Hyponyms

• (canal): canal de Panamá
• (channel): canal de Jamaica
• (channel): canal de la Mancha
• (channel): canal de Mozambique
• (channel): canal del Norte (“North Channel”)

Derived terms

• acanalar
• canaleta
• canalizar
• canalón
• canalón

Descendants

• ? Tagalog: kanal

Further reading

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

Venetian

Etymology

From Latin can?lis.

Noun

canal m (plural cana?i)

1. canal
2. channel (all senses)