Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word GUTTER
GUTTER
Definitions of GUTTER
- A prepared channel in a surface, especially at the side of a road adjacent to a curb, intended for the drainage of water.
- A ditch along the side of a road.
- A duct or channel beneath the eaves of a building to carry rain water; eavestrough.
- A large groove (commonly behind animals) in a barn used for the collection and removal of animal excrement.
- Any narrow channel or groove, such as one formed by erosion in the vent of a gun from repeated firing.
- The notional locus of things, acts, or events which are distasteful, ill bred or morally questionable.
- One who or that which guts.
- (bowling) A groove down the sides of a bowling lane.
- (typography) A space between printed columns of text.
- (printing) One of a number of pieces of wood or metal, grooved in the centre, used to separate the pages of type in a form.
- (philately) An unprinted space between rows of stamps.
- (British) A drainage channel.
- (figuratively) A low, vulgar state.
- (comics) The spaces between comic book panels.
- To flow or stream; to form gutters. [from late 14th c.]
- (of a candle) To melt away by having the molten wax run down along the side of the candle. [from early 18th c.]
- (of a small flame) To flicker as if about to be extinguished.
- (transitive) To send (a bowling ball) into the gutter, not hitting any pins.
- (transitive) To supply with a gutter or gutters.
- (transitive) To cut or form into small longitudinal hollows; to channel.
- (transitive, uncommon) To make worse; to show emphasis that something has gotten worse.
- A surname.
Number of letters
6
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using GUTTER in a Sentence
- The town's most famous geological feature, however, is Rattlesnake Gutter, a boulder-filled chasm near the geographic center of town.
- Above Plucks Gutter, where the Little Stour joins it, the river is normally known as the Great Stour.
- Below Bekesbourne it joins the Little Stour, which in turn joins with the Great Stour at Plucks Gutter near East Stourmouth.
- By the 1920s, the crack was wide enough to be mended with chains, and in 1957 the state legislature passed a $25,000 appropriation for a more elaborate weatherproofing, using 20 tons of fast-drying cement, plastic covering and steel rods and turnbuckles, plus a concrete gutter to divert runoff from above.
- Quite commonly, it is simply the waste that individuals routinely discard, either in a waste receptacle or a dump, or by littering, incinerating, pouring down the drain, or washing into the gutter.
- The peripheral metacarpals (those of the thumb and little finger) form the sides of the cup of the palmar gutter and as they are brought together they deepen this concavity.
- Gutter (philately), the space between panes of postage stamps that creates configurations of "gutter pairs" or "gutter blocks".
- One of his trademarks as a letterer was to often erase or omit panel borders when they touched the top, side, or bottom of a word balloon or caption, thus opening up the balloon/caption to the gutter.
- On curbed roadways, shoulders move the gutter away from the travel lanes which reduces the risk of aquaplaning, and reduces splash and spray of stormwater onto pedestrians using any adjacent sidewalk.
- Fairbairn and Captain Eric Anthony Sykes borrowed methodologies from Gatka, jujutsu, Chinese martial arts and "gutter fighting".
- Gary Smith, who also did the front and back covers for Hall of the Mountain King, the front cover for Gutter Ballet, the back cover for Streets, and all of Criss Oliva's airbrushed guitars, painted the cover.
- When a few people finally uncover who Arcanjo was and what he espoused, media barons and advertisers are horrified to discover that he was an Afro-Brazilian social critic, womanizer and heavy drinker who died penniless in the gutter.
- Vambraces (French: avant-bras, sometimes known as lower cannons in the Middle Ages) or forearm guards are tubular or gutter defences for the forearm worn as part of a suit of plate armour that were often connected to gauntlets.
- "The Itsy Bitsy Spider" (also known as "The Incy Wincy Spider" in Australia, Great Britain, and other anglophone countries) is a popular nursery rhyme, folksong, and fingerplay that describes the adventures of a spider as it ascends, descends, and re-ascends the downspout or "waterspout" of a gutter system or open-air reservoir.
- In exchange for the destruction of the aforementioned music it is also agreed that Mephistopheles and all his minions will remove themselves from the life of the child presently sleeping in the gutter directly across from the window of this room.
- The auger dislodges and removes almost all of the debris inside the gutter by flinging it sideways into the air.
- I mean, that's a little like Bonnie interviewing Clyde, ain't it?" As this is a common euphemism used at CNN to refer to Rupert Murdoch's network, Cafferty later clarified: "Get your mind out of the gutter.
- Rustic Overtones started in the early 1990s as a three-piece cover band known as Aces Wild with Dave Gutter, Jon Roods, and then-drummer and close friend Matthew Esty, playing small bars.
- Having the same centre as the earlier Gaulic oppidum, it possessed a regular street plan with 15-metre-wide streets flanked by a gutter.
- Palumbo has worked with many different artists including Alien Ant Farm (performing live with them on their cover of Bad Brains' "Gene Machine"), The Movielife (on the track, "Another Friend"), Ray Cappo (on Glassjaw's cover of the Youth of Today song, "Modern Love Story"), The Rondo Brothers (on the tracks "Hey Stewardess", "Whispering Reef", and "Take Me Back"), Silent Majority (on the track "Popular Opinion"), Every Time I Die (on the track "Champing at the Bit" from Gutter Phenomenon), Finch (on the tracks "Project Mayhem" and "Grey Matter" from What It Is to Burn), Cage Kennylz (on the track "Shoot Frank" from Hell's Winter) and Dan the Automator's Handsome Boy Modeling School.
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