Hampton Roads vs channel

Hampton Roads and channel both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Hampton Roads	Yes	No	No	No
channel	Yes	No	Yes	No

Hampton Roads (noun)	channel (noun)
a naval battle of the American Civil War (1862); the indecisive battle between the Monitor and the Merrimac	a way of selling a company's product either directly or via distributors
a channel in southeastern Virginia through which the Elizabeth River and the James River flow into Chesapeake Bay	a passage for water (or other fluids) to flow through
	a television station and its programs
	a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance
	a path over which electrical signals can pass
	(often plural) a means of communication or access
	a deep and relatively narrow body of water (as in a river or a harbor or a strait linking two larger bodies) that allows the best passage for vessels
	a long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process (such as erosion) or by a tool (as e.g. a groove in a phonograph record)

Hampton Roads (verb)	channel (verb)
	send from one person or place to another
	direct the flow of
	transmit or serve as the medium for transmission