Guttering vs Gutter - What's the difference?
guttering | gutter |
Gutters considered as a group.
(of a small flame) flickering and about to be extinguished
*1919 , Siegfried Sassoon,
*:Why do you lie with your legs ungainly huddled,
*:And one arm bent across your sullen cold
*:Exhausted face? It hurts my heart to watch you,
*:Deep-shadow'd from the candle's guttering gold;
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.
* 1921 , Bernie Babcock, The Coming of the King (page 151)
* 2013 , Don Keith, ?Shelley Stewart, Mattie C.'s Boy: The Shelley Stewart Story (page 34)
In of a small flame terms the difference between guttering and gutter
is that guttering is flickering and about to be extinguished while gutter is to flicker as if about to be extinguished.As an adjective guttering
is flickering and about to be extinguished.guttering
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Noun
(en-noun)Verb
(head)Adjective
(head)gutter
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(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 .