gutter — Dizionario inglese

Sostantivo

1. A prepared channel in a surface, especially at the side of a road adjacent to a curb, intended for the drainage of water.

   Esempi

   They a not so clean as they might be, since the water [is] carried off by only one gutter, in the centre of t[he] street

2. A ditch along the side of a road.

   Esempi

   In nearly all of the towns the gutters are filled with vegetation, or have been neglected for so long a time that the roadway becomes its own drainage bed.

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   ‘Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw. Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared.[…]’

   As Mike parked the vehicle, its right wheels sank into an unpaved gutter gradually worn irregular and deep by the rush of rainwater flowing down the street.

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   Gutters separated the sidewalk from the road on both sides and flowed with muddy water.

   Meltwater gathered in the icy ruts of the unpaved road, the pressure wearing thin channels in the packed snow. Along the gutter the rivulets of spring runoff cut a course to the storm sewer

3. A duct or channel beneath the eaves of a building to carry rain water; eavestrough.

   Esempi

   The gutters must be cleared of leaves a few times a year.

4. A groove down the sides of a bowling lane.

   Esempi

   You can decide to use the bumpers to avoid the ball going down the gutter every time.

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.

    Uso

    • uso britannico

11. The notional locus of things, acts, or events that are distasteful, ill-bred, or morally questionable.

    Esempi

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    Nosei (Löwensohn): This is Tom and Cynthia Kruger. / Jean-Michel Basquiat (Jeffrey Wright): I heard. / Nosei: This is Jean-Michel Basquiat. / Tom Kruger (Chuck Pfeiffer): Hi. / Nosei: You've seen the SAMO graffiti everywhere – that's his. This is the true voice of the gutter.

12. A low, vulgar state.

    Uso

    • figurato

    Esempi

    Get your mind out of the gutter.

    What kind of gutter language is that? I ought to wash your mouth out with soap.

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    Lord Darlington. No, we are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

13. A space between comic strip panels.

Verbo

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.

   Uso

   • of a candle

   Sinonimi

   cloam

3. To flicker as if about to be extinguished.

   Uso

   • of a small flame
   • of eyes

   Esempi

   The light in his eyes guttered like a candle in a mighty wind and finally went out. She had no time to grieve[…]

   Alex's eyes gutter, and his face goes cold. He stands there mutely through my apology, stiff and frozen. I want to touch him, but I'm scared he'll flinch away.

4. To send (a bowling ball) into the gutter, not hitting any pins.

   Uso

   • transitivo

5. To supply with a gutter or gutters.

   Uso

   • transitivo

   Esempi

   A narrow flooring, guttered, walled, and tiled.

6. To cut or form into small longitudinal hollows; to channel.

   Uso

   • transitivo

   Esempi

   The gutter'd-Rockes, and Congregated Sands,

7. To worsen considerably.

   Uso

   • intransitivo
   • poco comune

   Esempi

   The students' performance guttered after the school event.

   The patient's state would soon gutter.

Aggettivo

1. Vulgar, sordid, or low-class.

   Uso

   • spregiativo
   • figurato
   • informale

   Esempi

   The "greatest" controversy came when Farrakhan was accused of calling Judaism a "gutter religion". Farrakhan says he never used the word "gutter."

Sostantivo

1. One who or that which guts.

   Esempi

   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.

Sostantivo

1. a channel along the eaves or on the roof; collects and carries away rainwater

   Sinonimi

   trough

   Termini più generali

   channel

2. misfortune resulting in lost effort or money

   Sinonimi

   sewertoilet

   Termini più generali

   misfortunebad lucktough luckill luck

   Esempi

   his career was in the gutter

   all that work went down the sewer

   Altri esempi (1)

   pensions are in the toilet

3. a worker who guts things (fish or buildings or cars etc.)

   Termini più generali

   worker

4. a tool for gutting fish

   Termini più generali

   hand tool

Verbo

1. burn unsteadily, feebly, or low; flicker

   Termini più generali

   burnglow

   Esempi

   The cooling lava continued to gutter toward lower ground

2. flow in small streams

   Termini più generali

   runflowfeedcourse

   Esempi

   Tears guttered down her face

3. wear or cut gutters into

   Termini più generali

   probedig intopoke into

   Esempi

   The heavy rain guttered the soil

4. provide with gutters

   Termini più generali

   providesupplyplycater

   Esempi

   gutter the buildings