Windward Passage vs channel

Windward Passage and channel both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Windward Passage	Yes	No	No	No
channel	Yes	No	Yes	No

Windward Passage (noun)	channel (noun)
a channel between eastern Cuba and western Haiti that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Caribbean Sea	a way of selling a company's product either directly or via distributors
	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)

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