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gutter
[ guht-er ]
noun
- a channel at the side or in the middle of a road or street, for leading off surface water.
- a channel at the eaves or on the roof of a building, for carrying off rainwater.
- any channel, trough, or the like for carrying off fluid.
- a furrow or channel made by running water.
- Bowling. a sunken channel extending along each side of a bowling lane, to catch balls that stray over the edge.
- the state or abode of those who live in degradation, squalor, etc.:
the language of the gutter.
- the white space formed by the inner margins of two facing pages in a bound book, magazine, or newspaper.
verb (used without object)
- to flow in streams.
- (of a candle) to lose molten wax accumulated in a hollow space around the wick.
- (of a lamp or candle flame) to burn low or to be blown so as to be nearly extinguished.
- to form gutters, as water does.
verb (used with object)
- to make gutters in; channel.
- to furnish with a gutter or gutters:
to gutter a new house.
gutter
/ ˈɡʌ³ÙÉ™ /
noun
- a channel along the eaves or on the roof of a building, used to collect and carry away rainwater
- a channel running along the kerb or the centre of a road to collect and carry away rainwater
- a trench running beside a canal lined with clay puddle
- either of the two channels running parallel to a tenpin bowling lane
- printing
- the space between two pages in a forme
- the white space between the facing pages of an open book
- the space between two columns of type
- the space left between stamps on a sheet in order to separate them
- surfing a dangerous deep channel formed by currents and waves
- (in gold-mining) the channel of a former watercourse that is now a vein of gold
- the guttera poverty-stricken, degraded, or criminal environment
verb
- tr to make gutters in
- intr to flow in a stream or rivulet
- intr (of a candle) to melt away by the wax forming channels and running down in drops
- intr (of a flame) to flicker and be about to go out
Derived Forms
- ˈ²µ³Ü³Ù³Ù±ð°ù-ËŒ±ô¾±°ì±ð, adjective
Other ˜yÐÄvlogs From
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of gutter1
Idioms and Phrases
see in the gutter .Example Sentences
“You are one gutter rat,†he said he told himself.
Even a stroll around the capital, St John's, is fraught with hazards for many with an impairment, thanks to omnipresent open gutters, crudely covered drains and cracked paving.
Mr Palmer also described seeing "a woman lying on the ground with the engine of a car on top of her" and a male "lying near a gutter with his head on fire".
In Oxnard, the siding, rain gutters and roofs of several mobile homes were damaged after a weak tornado ripped through the Country Club Mobile Estates and the Ocean Aire Mobile Homes Estates.
That might add more contaminants to your soil, but it’s better than spreading the toxins by flushing it down drains or gutters, according to the South Coast Air Quality Management District.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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