different between channel vs platform

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 French plateforme (“a flat form”), from plate (“flat”) (from Old French plat, from Ancient Greek ?????? (platús, “flat”)) + forme (“form”) (from Latin f?rma (“shape; figure; form”)); compare flatscape.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?plætf??m/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?plætf??m/
• Hyphenation: plat?form

Noun

platform (plural platforms)

1. A raised stage from which speeches are made and on which musical and other performances are made.

   Synonym: (not for artistic performances) podium

2. A raised floor for any purpose, e.g. for workmen during construction, or formerly for military cannon.
3. A place or an opportunity to express one's opinion; a tribune.

   Synonym: (only regarding the physical structure) podium

4. A kind of high shoe with an extra layer between the inner and outer soles.
5. (figuratively) Something that allows an enterprise to advance; a foundation or stage.
6. (automobiles) A set of components shared by several vehicle models.
7. (computing) A computer system used to deliver services to clients; a solution
8. (computing) A particular type of operating system or environment such as a database or other specific software, and/or a particular type of computer or microprocessor, used to describe a particular environment for running other software, or for defining a specific software or hardware environment for discussion purposes.
10. (geology) A flat expanse of rock, often the result of wave erosion.
11. (nautical) A light deck, usually placed in a section of the hold or over the floor of the magazine.
12. (politics) A political stance on a broad set of issues, which are called planks.
13. (travel) A raised structure from which passengers can enter or leave a train, metro etc.
14. (obsolete) A plan; a sketch; a model; a pattern.

    (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)

Synonyms

• dais

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

platform (third-person singular simple present platforms, present participle platforming, simple past and past participle platformed)

1. (transitive) To furnish with or shape into a platform
2. (transitive) To place on, or as if on, a platform.
   • 1844, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, To Flush, My Dog

     And this dog was satisfied / If a pale thin hand would glide / Down his dewlaps sloping / Which he pushed his nose within, / After—platforming his chin / On the palm left open.

3. (obsolete, transitive) To form a plan of; to model; to lay out.
4. (politics, transitive) To include in a political platform
5. (transitive) To publish or make visible; to provide a platform for (a topic etc.).

   Antonyms: deplatform, no-platform

6. (film, transitive) To open (a film) in a small number of theaters before a broader release in order to generate enthusiasm.

See also

• Platform in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

References

• platform on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• platform (geology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle French plateforme.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: plat?form

Noun

platform n (plural platformen or platforms, diminutive platformpje n)

1. A platform, flat surface, notably a dais or stage
2. A political platform, (electoral) program
3. A plateau
4. A flat roof
5. (obsolete) A ground-plan

Synonyms

• (physical) podium n, verhoog n
• (in a station) perron n
• (political) (kies)programma n
• (ground-plan) plattegrond

Derived terms

• kiesplatform n

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: platform

Hungarian

Etymology

From German Plattform, from French plateforme.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?pl?tform]
• Hyphenation: plat?form
• Rhymes: -orm

Noun

platform (plural platformok)

1. (politics) platform (electoral program)
2. (computing) platform (a particular type of operating system or environment)
3. platform (a flat surface)

Declension

Derived terms

• platformfüggetlen

References

Further reading

• platform in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch platform, from Middle French plateforme (Modern French plate-forme), from Ancient Greek ?????? (platús, “flat”)) + Latin f?rma (“shape; figure; form”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?platf?rm]
• Hyphenation: plat?form

Noun

platform

1. platform,
   1. a plan; a sketch; a model; a pattern.

      Synonyms: program, rencana

   2. a raised stage from which speeches are made and on which musical and other performances are made.

      Synonyms: panggung, pentas, mimbar

   3. a raised structure from which passengers can enter or leave a train, metro etc.

      Synonym: peron

2. a political platform, (electoral) program.

Further reading

• “platform” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from French plateforme.

Noun

platform (definite accusative platformu, plural platformlar)

1. platform
2. (transport, travel) platform

Declension

Synonyms

• (travel): peron