channel vs translate

channel is a noun but translate is not a noun.

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

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

Other hyponyms of channel include bring, convey, fetch, get, project, propagate, release, turn, send, send out.

channel (noun)	translate (noun)
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)

channel (verb)	translate (verb)
send from one person or place to another	change the position of (figures or bodies) in space without rotation
direct the flow of	change from one form or medium into another
transmit or serve as the medium for transmission	make sense of a language
	restate (words) from one language into another language
	determine the amino-acid sequence of a protein during its synthesis by using information on the messenger RNA
	express, as in simple and less technical language
	bring to a certain spiritual state
	subject to movement in which every part of the body moves parallel to and the same distance as every other point on the body
	be translatable, or be translatable in a certain way
	be equivalent in effect