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aqueduct
English
Alternative forms
- aquaeduct
- aquæduct (archaic)
Etymology
Adapted from the Latin aquaeductus (“conveyance of water”), from aqua (“water”) + d?c? (“I lead”, “I bring”); compare the French aqueduc.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?æk.w??d?kt/
- (US) IPA(key): /?æk.w??d?kt/
- (US, see note) IPA(key): /??k.w??d?kt/
Usage notes
The newer IPA(key): /??k-/ pronunciation (prescriptive based on the Latin etymology) has been objected to by some commentators.
Noun
aqueduct (plural aqueducts)
- An artificial channel that is constructed to convey water from one location to another.
- A structure carrying water over a river or depression, especially in regards to ancient aqueducts.
- (anatomy) A structure conveying fluid, such as the cerebral aqueduct or vestibular aqueduct.
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gutter
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /???t.?/
- (US) IPA(key): /???t.?/, /???t?.?/
- Rhymes: -?t?(?)
Etymology 1
From Middle English gutter, guttur, goter, from Anglo-Norman guttere, from Old French goutiere (French gouttière), ultimately from Latin gutta (“drop”).
Noun
gutter (plural gutters)
- A prepared channel in a surface, especially at the side of a road adjacent to a curb, intended for the drainage of water.
- A ditch along the side of a road.
- A duct or channel beneath the eaves of a building to carry rain water; eavestrough.
- (bowling) 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.
- (typography) A space between printed columns of text.
- (printing) One of a number of pieces of wood or metal, grooved in the centre, used to separate the pages of type in a form.
- (philately) An unprinted space between rows of stamps.
- (Britain) A drainage channel.
- The notional locus of things, acts, or events which are distasteful, ill bred or morally questionable.
- (figuratively) A low, vulgar state.
- (comics) The spaces between comic book panels
Derived terms
Descendants
- Sranan Tongo: gotro
Translations
See also
- gutter on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- gout
Verb
gutter (third-person singular simple present gutters, present participle guttering, simple past and past participle guttered)
- To flow or stream; to form gutters. [from late 14th c.]
- (of a candle) To melt away by having the molten wax run down along the side of the candle. [from early 18th c.]
- (of a small flame) To flicker as if about to be extinguished.
- (transitive) To send (a bowling ball) into the gutter, not hitting any pins.
- (transitive) To supply with a gutter or gutters.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Dryden to this entry?)
- (transitive) To cut or form into small longitudinal hollows; to channel.
Translations
Etymology 2
gut +? -er
Noun
gutter (plural gutters)
- One who or that which guts.
- 1921, Bernie Babcock, The Coming of the King (page 151)
- A Galilean Rabbi? When did this Province of diggers in dirt and gutters of fish send forth Rabbis? Thou makest a jest.
- 2013, Don Keith, Shelley Stewart, Mattie C.'s Boy: The Shelley Stewart Story (page 34)
- An old, rusty coat hanger made a rudimentary fish-gutter.
- 1921, Bernie Babcock, The Coming of the King (page 151)
Danish
Noun
gutter c
- indefinite plural of gut
Norwegian Bokmål
Pronunciation
Noun
gutter m
- indefinite plural of gutt
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