Dictionary Definition
gutter
Noun
1 a channel along the eaves or on the roof;
collects and carries away rainwater [syn: trough]
2 misfortune resulting in lost effort or money;
"his career was in the gutter"; "all that work went down the
sewer"; "pensions are in the toilet" [syn: sewer, toilet]
3 a worker who guts things (fish or buildings or
cars etc.)
4 a tool for gutting fish
Verb
1 burn unsteadily, feebly, or low; flicker; "The
cooling lava continued to gutter toward lower ground"
2 flow in small streams; "Tears guttered down her
face"
3 wear or cut gutters into; "The heavy rain
guttered the soil"
4 provide with gutters; "gutter the
buildings"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Noun
Translations
ditch
- Finnish: katuoja
duct or channel
grooves
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something distasteful or morally questionable
- Finnish: rappio
Translations
vulgar, disreputable
- Finnish: rappiollinen
Verb
- to flow or stream; to form gutters
- In the context of "of a candle": to melt away or fail from becoming channeled on one side
- In the context of "of a small flame": to flicker as if about to be extinguished
Translations
to melt away or fail from becoming channeled on
one side
to flicker as if about to be extinguished
Extensive Definition
Gutter may refer to:
- Rain gutter, a narrow channel which collects rainwater from the roof of a building and diverts it away from the structure, typically into a drain
- Street gutter, a depression which runs alongside a city street and diverts rain and street-cleaning water off of the street and into a storm drain
In media
- Gutter (comic), a British adult-oriented comic from the 1990s
In sport
- Gutters, in bowling and table shuffleboard, the trough hazards on either side of the playing lane into which the bowling ball or shuffleboard puck may fall
In design and printing
- Gutter, the blank space, in editorial design, at which two pages come together in a two-page spread
- Gutter, in typography, the space between columns of printed text
- Gutter, in comics, the space between the panels of a comic strip or comic book page
- Gutter (philately), the space between panes of postage stamps that creates configurations of "gutter pairs" or "gutter blocks"
gutter in German: Gosse (Begriffsklärung)
gutter in French: Gouttière
gutter in Dutch: Goot
gutter in Dutch Low Saxon: Geute
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
aqueduct, beat, beneath one, bicker, broad, canal, canalization, channel, cheap, chute, cloaca, cloaca maxima, coarse, crimp, cut, dance, debasing, degrading, demeaning, deplorable, dike, disgraceful, ditch, drain, earthy, eaves trough, entrenchment, flap, flick, flicker, flip, flit, flitter, flop, flutter, fosse, frank, go pitapat, goffer, gross, guide, ha-ha, headchute, humiliating, humiliative, infra dig,
infra indignitatem, kennel, low, moat, opprobrious, outrageous, palpitate, penstock, pentrough, piscina, pitiful, pitter-patter, pleat, pulse, rank, raw, sad, scandalous, scupper, sewer, shameful, shocking, shoot, sink, slat, sluice, sorry, sough, splutter, sputter, sump, sunk fence, throb, too bad, trench, trough, unbecoming, uncouth, unworthy of one,
vulgar, wave, waver