channel vs watercourse

watercourse vs channel

channel and watercourse both are nouns.

channel is a verb but watercourse is not a verb.

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

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

channel: 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
watercourse: natural or artificial channel through which water flows

Other hyponyms of channel include canal, gut, rill, sound, strait, tideway.

channel (noun)	watercourse (noun)
a way of selling a company's product either directly or via distributors	a conduit through which water flows
a passage for water (or other fluids) to flow through	a natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth
a television station and its programs	natural or artificial channel through which water flows
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)	watercourse (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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