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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
/ 藞伞蕦迟蓹 /
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
- 藞驳耻迟迟别谤-藢濒颈办别, adjective
Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms
- 驳耻迟顎僼别谤路濒颈办别顎 adjective
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of gutter1
Idioms and Phrases
see in the gutter .Example Sentences
London Marathon boycotts X after 'descent into gutter'
"There are some social media channels that are particularly vitriolic and are descending into a gutter," said Brasher.
I was a suburban lacrosse mom and I was jeopardizing my 20-year marriage, two children, two hypoallergenic dogs, meticulously designed houses, swimming pools, gardeners and gutters.
鈥淵ou are one gutter rat,鈥 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.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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