Gutter vs False - What's the difference?
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A prepared channel in a surface, especially at the side of a road adjacent to a curb, intended for the drainage of water.
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A ditch along the side of a road.
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A duct or channel beneath the eaves of a building to carry rain water; eavestrough.
A groove down the sides of a bowling lane.
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.
A space between printed columns of text.
(philately) An unprinted space between rows of stamps.
(British) A drainage channel.
The notional locus of things, acts, or events which are distasteful, ill bred or morally questionable.
(figuratively) A low, vulgar state.
To flow or stream; to form gutters.
(of a candle) To melt away by having the molten wax run down along the side of the candle.
(of a small flame) To flicker as if about to be extinguished.
To send (a bowling ball) into the gutter, not hitting any pins.
To supply with a gutter or gutters.
To cut or form into small longitudinal hollows; to channel.
One who or that which guts.
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Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
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Spurious, artificial.
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*:At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
(lb) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
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Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
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Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
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*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:whose false foundation waves have swept away
Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
(lb) Out of tune.
As a noun gutter
is a prepared channel in a surface, especially at the side of a road adjacent to a curb, intended for the drainage of water or gutter can be one who or that which guts.As a verb gutter
is to flow or stream; to form gutters.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.gutter
English
(Street gutter)Etymology 1
(etyl) gotere, from (etyl) goutiere (FrenchNoun
(en noun)- The gutters must be cleared of leaves a few times a year.
- Get your mind out of the gutter .
- What kind of gutter language is that? I ought to wash your mouth out with soap.
Derived terms
* gutter ball, gutterball * gutter member * guttermouth * gutter plane * guttersnipe * gutter stickSee also
(pedia) * goutVerb
(en verb)- (Dryden)
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Etymology 2
Noun
(en noun)- A Galilean Rabbi? When did this Province of diggers in dirt and gutters of fish send forth Rabbis? Thou makest a jest.
- An old, rusty coat hanger made a rudimentary fish-gutter .
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Adjective
(er)A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society, section=Part 1, publisher=Clarendon Press, location=Oxford, editor= , volume=1, page=217 , passage=Also the rule of false position, with dyuers examples not onely vulgar, but some appertaynyng to the rule of Algeber.}}