different between gutter vs corrugation
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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corrugation
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k?r.?.??e?.??n/
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
corrugation (countable and uncountable, plural corrugations)
- The process of corrugating; contraction into wrinkles or alternate ridges and grooves.
- 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift [Avon ed., 1976, pp. 391–92]:
- According to the pilot, ships were taking hard punishment in the storm. But from this altitude the corrugations of the seas looked no higher to the eye than the ridges of your palate feel to the tongue.
- 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift [Avon ed., 1976, pp. 391–92]:
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