channel vs lens

lens vs channel

channel and lens both are nouns.

channel is a verb but lens is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
channel	Yes	No	Yes	No
lens	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, lens is a hyponym of channel; that is, lens is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than channel:

channel: (often plural) a means of communication or access
lens: (metaphor) a channel through which something can be seen or understood

Other hyponyms of channel include back channel, contact, inter-group communication, liaison, link, line of gab, patter, spiel.

channel (noun)	lens (noun)
a way of selling a company's product either directly or via distributors	a transparent optical device used to converge or diverge transmitted light and to form images
a passage for water (or other fluids) to flow through	electronic equipment that uses a magnetic or electric field in order to focus a beam of electrons
a television station and its programs	biconvex transparent body situated behind the iris in the eye; its role (along with the cornea) is to focus light on the retina
a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance	(metaphor) a channel through which something can be seen or understood
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)

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

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