gutter
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: bowling
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lifestyle
literature
media
philately
printing
publishing
sports
typography
Etymology: From Middle English gutter, guttur, goter, from Anglo-Norman guttere, from Old French goutiere (French gouttière), ultimately from Latin gutta (“drop”).
Inflected forms:
form: gutters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gutters
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: guttering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: guttered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: guttered
pos: verb
tags: past
form: more gutter
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most gutter
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A prepared channel in a surface, especially at the side of a road adjacent to a curb, intended for the drainage of water.
pos: noun
examples: They a not so clean as they might be, since the water [is] carried off by only one gutter, in the centre of t[he] street
gloss: A ditch along the side of a road.
pos: noun
examples: In nearly all of the towns the gutters are filled with vegetation, or have been neglected for so long a time that the roadway becomes its own drainage bed.
‘Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw. Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared.[…]’
As Mike parked the vehicle, its right wheels sank into an unpaved gutter gradually worn irregular and deep by the rush of rainwater flowing down the street.
Gutters separated the sidewalk from the road on both sides and flowed with muddy water.
Meltwater gathered in the icy ruts of the unpaved road, the pressure wearing thin channels in the packed snow. Along the gutter the rivulets of spring runoff cut a course to the storm sewer
gloss: A duct or channel beneath the eaves of a building to carry rain water; eavestrough.
pos: noun
examples: The gutters must be cleared of leaves a few times a year.
gloss: A groove down the sides of a bowling lane.
pos: noun
examples: You can decide to use the bumpers to avoid the ball going down the gutter every time.
gloss: A large groove (commonly behind animals) in a barn used for the collection and removal of animal excrement.
pos: noun
gloss: Any narrow channel or groove, such as one formed by erosion in the vent of a gun from repeated firing.
pos: noun
gloss: A space between printed columns of text.
pos: noun
gloss: One of a number of pieces of wood or metal, grooved in the centre, used to separate the pages of type in a form.
pos: noun
gloss: An unprinted space between rows of stamps.
pos: noun
gloss: A drainage channel.
pos: noun
tags: UK
gloss: The notional locus of things, acts, or events that are distasteful, ill-bred, or morally questionable.
pos: noun
examples: Nosei (Löwensohn): This is Tom and Cynthia Kruger. / Jean-Michel Basquiat (Jeffrey Wright): I heard. / Nosei: This is Jean-Michel Basquiat. / Tom Kruger (Chuck Pfeiffer): Hi. / Nosei: You've seen the SAMO graffiti everywhere – that's his. This is the true voice of the gutter.
gloss: A low, vulgar state.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: Get your mind out of the gutter.
What kind of gutter language is that? I ought to wash your mouth out with soap.
Lord Darlington. No, we are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
gloss: A space between comic strip panels.
pos: noun
gloss: To flow or stream; to form gutters.
pos: verb
gloss: To melt away by having the molten wax run down along the side of the candle.
pos: verb
gloss: To flicker as if about to be extinguished.
pos: verb
examples: The light in his eyes guttered like a candle in a mighty wind and finally went out. She had no time to grieve[…]
Alex's eyes gutter, and his face goes cold. He stands there mutely through my apology, stiff and frozen. I want to touch him, but I'm scared he'll flinch away.
gloss: To send (a bowling ball) into the gutter, not hitting any pins.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To supply with a gutter or gutters.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: A narrow flooring, guttered, walled, and tiled.
gloss: To cut or form into small longitudinal hollows; to channel.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The gutter'd-Rockes, and Congregated Sands,
gloss: To worsen considerably.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
uncommon
examples: The students' performance guttered after the school event.
The patient's state would soon gutter.
gloss: Vulgar, sordid, or low-class.
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
figuratively
informal
examples: The "greatest" controversy came when Farrakhan was accused of calling Judaism a "gutter religion". Farrakhan says he never used the word "gutter."
Related words: gout
Derived words: cum gutters
get one's head out of the gutter
get one's mind out of the gutter
gutter ape
gutter ball
gutterball
gutterblood
gutter dog
gutterdog
gutter game
gutter guard
gutterless
gutterlike
gutter member
guttermouth
gutter mouth
gutter oil
gutter plane
gutter press
gutter punk
gutter rabbit
gutter rat
guttersnipe
guttersome
gutter stick
gutterwork
gutter wound
guttery
rain gutter
skite-the-gutter
gutter out
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