different between channel vs door

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

From Middle English dore, dor, from Old English duru (“door”), dor (“gate”), from Proto-Germanic *durz, from Proto-Indo-European *d?w?r, from *d?wer- (“doorway, door, gate”). Cognate with Scots door (“door”), Saterland Frisian Doore (“door”), West Frisian doar (“door”), Dutch deur (“door”), German Low German Door, Döör (“door”), German Tür (“door”), Tor (“gate”), Danish and Norwegian dør (“door”), Icelandic dyr (“door”), Latin foris and foras, Ancient Greek ???? (thúra), Albanian derë pl. dyer, Central Kurdish ?????? (derge), derî, Persian ??? (dar), Russian ????? (dver?), Hindi ????? (dv?r) / ????? (dv?r), Armenian ???? (du?), Irish doras, Lithuanian durys.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: dô, IPA^(key): /d??/
• (General American) enPR: dôr, IPA^(key): /d??/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: d?r?, IPA^(key): /do(?)?/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /do?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)
• Homophone: daw (non-rhotic with caught-court merger (most of England, Australia, New York))
• Homophone: dour (cure-force merger; one pronunciation)
• Homophone: dough (non-rhotic with dough-door merger (AAVE, non-rhotic Southern accents))
• Rhymes: -??(?)

Noun

door (plural doors)

1. A portal of entry into a building, room, or vehicle, consisting of a rigid plane movable on a hinge. Doors are frequently made of wood or metal. May have a handle to help open and close, a latch to hold the door closed, and a lock that ensures the door cannot be opened without the key.

2. Any flap, etc. that opens like a door.

3. (immigration) An entry point.
4. (figuratively) A means of approach or access.

   Learning is the door to wisdom.

5. (figuratively) A barrier.

6. (computing, dated) A software mechanism by which a user can interact with a program running remotely on a bulletin board system. See BBS door.

Meronyms

• handle
• latch
• lock

Hyponyms

• front door
• sliding door

Derived terms

Related terms

Meronyms

Translations

See also

• gate

Verb

door (third-person singular simple present doors, present participle dooring, simple past and past participle doored)

1. (transitive, cycling) To cause a collision by opening the door of a vehicle in front of an oncoming cyclist or pedestrian.

Translations

Anagrams

• Rood, odor, ordo, rood

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /do?r/
• Hyphenation: door
• Rhymes: -o?r

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch d?re, from Old Dutch thuro, from Proto-Germanic *þurhw.

Preposition

door

1. through

   Hij schoot de bal door het raam.

   He kicked the ball through the window.

2. across, around (within a certain space)

   Dolenthousiast rende het hondje door de kamer.

   Very enthusiastically the puppy ran around the room.

3. because of, due to

   Door files kan ik niet op tijd komen.

   Because of traffic jams I'm unable to arrive on time.

4. by, by means of

   Hij vermeed een confrontatie door de andere kant op te lopen.

   He avoided a confrontation by walking the other way.

Inflection

Synonyms

(because of):

• vanwege

Derived terms

Related terms

• door-
• door middel van

Descendants

• Afrikaans: deur

Adverb

door

1. through
2. forward, on

   Ondanks slecht weer ging het feest toch door.

   Despite bad weather, the party went on anyway.

3. (postpositional, directional) through (implying motion)

   Ik rijd nu de stad door.

   I'm now driving through the city.

4. (postpositional, spatial) across, around (within a certain space)

   Dolenthousiast rende het hondje de kamer door.

   Very enthusiastically the puppy ran around the room.

5. (postpositional, temporal) throughout, round (occurring all the time – constantly or frequently – within a certain time period)

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: deur

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch dôre. Cognate to German Tor. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

door m (plural doren)

1. (now Southern, archaic) fool, moron
   • 1869, Frans de Cort, "Walter van de Vogelweide als paedagoog" (article including a poem), in Frans de Cort (ed.), De toekomst. Tijdschrift voor opvoeding en onderwijs, Vol. 3, No. 6, page 245.

     Past ook op uwe ooren / Beter dan de doren!

   Synonyms: dwaas, nar, zot

Related terms

• dwaas

Anagrams

• oord, rood

Old Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin dolor (“pain”), dol?ris.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /do.?o?/

Noun

door f (plural doores)

1. pain
   • 13th century, Afonso X the wise, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E Codex, Cantiga 206:

     ? untou lle b? a chaga / ? perdeu Log a door. / ? po?? el a ?ua mão. / ben firme en ?eu logar

     And anointed well the wound / and soon the pain was gone. / And put his hand / very firmly in its place.

Related terms

• doorida, doorido
• doorosa

Descendants

• Galician: dor
• Portuguese: dor
  • Kabuverdianu: dór

Scots

Alternative forms

• dour

Etymology

From Middle English dore, dor, from Old English duru (“door”), dor (“gate”), from Proto-Germanic *durz, from Proto-Indo-European *d?w?r, from *d?wer- (“doorway, door, gate”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [du?r]

Noun

door (plural doors)

1. door

Further reading

• “door” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.

Somali

Verb

door

1. to choose