gutter

Significat (Anglès)

Noun

1. A prepared channel in a surface, especially at the side of a road adjacent to a curb, intended for the drainage of water.
2. A ditch along the side of a road.
3. A duct or channel beneath the eaves of a building to carry rain water; eavestrough.
4. A groove down the sides of a bowling lane.
5. A large groove (commonly behind animals) in a barn used for the collection and removal of animal excrement.
6. Any narrow channel or groove, such as one formed by erosion in the vent of a gun from repeated firing.
7. A space between printed columns of text.
8. One of a number of pieces of wood or metal, grooved in the centre, used to separate the pages of type in a form.
9. An unprinted space between rows of stamps.
10. A drainage channel.
11. The notional locus of things, acts, or events which are distasteful, ill bred or morally questionable.
12. A low, vulgar state.
13. The spaces between comic book panels.

Verb

1. To flow or stream; to form gutters.
2. To melt away by having the molten wax run down along the side of the candle.
3. To flicker as if about to be extinguished.
4. To send (a bowling ball) into the gutter, not hitting any pins.
5. To supply with a gutter or gutters.
6. To cut or form into small longitudinal hollows; to channel.
7. To make worse; to show emphasis that something has gotten worse.

Sinònims

ditch

drain

channel

sewer

trench

gully

canal

spout

trough

sluice

downspout

groove

eaves

moat

chute

watercourse

launder

stream

trickle down

gutter spout

run

water trough

flute

🪈

irrigation canal

toilet

🚽

rainspout

small canal

flow

drainage

water pipe

waterspout

pour

lave

leak

luff

mud

pour out

rabbet

rebate

regurgitate

riffle

runnel

run out

scintillate

scratch

scupper

scuzzy

sewerage

shimmer

sink

slot

socket

sparkle

❇️

spill

spill out

splint

sulcus

surge

tank

through

chip at

tray

trickle

tube

twinkle

unsavory

valley

vent

vessel

waste pipe

waterway

waver

well out

wink

😉

wrecker

drainage pipe

irrigation ditch

storm drain

drainage channel

ventilation opening

binding margin

gutter margin

cullis

floodway

waste

driving slot

street gutter

air end

roof gutter

small watercourse

median furrow

medial groove

median gutter

median groove

out-feed channel

ventilation orifice

ventilator scoop

runoff area

shysterish

penumbrous

ark

·rocker

blink

chase

cleave

course

culvert

cut

dance

💃

discreditable

drainage ditch

duct

emanate

feed

filter

flap

flare

flash

flick

flicker

flitter

floodplain

flutter

flux

furrow

gap

gauffer

glint

goffer

gouge

grave

🪦

indent

kennel

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ˈɡʌt.ə/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: gutter

Cognat amb francès: gouttière

In summary

From Middle English gutter, guttur, goter, from Anglo-Norman guttere, from Old French goutiere (French gouttière), ultimately from Latin gutta (“drop”).