different between gutter vs getter

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)

1. A prepared channel in a surface, especially at the side of a road adjacent to a curb, intended for the drainage of water.
2. A ditch along the side of a road.
3. A duct or channel beneath the eaves of a building to carry rain water; eavestrough.

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

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. (typography) A space between printed columns of text.
8. (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.
9. (philately) An unprinted space between rows of stamps.
10. (Britain) A drainage channel.
11. The notional locus of things, acts, or events which are distasteful, ill bred or morally questionable.
12. (figuratively) A low, vulgar state.

13. (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)

1. To flow or stream; to form gutters. [from late 14th c.]
2. (of a candle) To melt away by having the molten wax run down along the side of the candle. [from early 18th c.]
3. (of a small flame) To flicker as if about to be extinguished.
4. (transitive) To send (a bowling ball) into the gutter, not hitting any pins.
5. (transitive) To supply with a gutter or gutters.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Dryden to this entry?)

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

Translations

Etymology 2

gut +? -er

Noun

gutter (plural gutters)

1. 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.

Danish

Noun

gutter c

1. indefinite plural of gut

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

Noun

gutter m

1. indefinite plural of gutt

English

Etymology

get +? -er

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???t?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /???t?(?)/, /-??(?)/
• Rhymes: -?t?, -?t?(?)
• Hyphenation: get?ter

Noun

getter (plural getters)

1. One who gets.
   • 1838, William Evans, Thomas Evans, The Friends' Library

     Many times things would open in him to admiration, showing to rich men and the eager getters of this world, the danger they were in of hurting themselves, by hindering their growth in the truth.

   • 2009, Jodi Newbern, Regifting Revival!: A Guide to Reusing Gifts Graciously (page 15)

     In any case, now we have defined the identities and established the unique characteristics of all types of gift givers and gift getters.

2. (object-oriented programming) A function used to retrieve the value of some property of an object, contrasted with the setter.
3. (sciences) A material which is included in a vacuum system or device for removing gas by sorption.
4. (mining, historical) A miner who dug coal, contrasted with the putter, who took it to the surface.

Synonyms

• (computing): accessor

Derived terms

• go-getter
• vote getter
• gettering

Translations

See also

• setter

Verb

getter (third-person singular simple present getters, present participle gettering, simple past and past participle gettered)

1. (sciences) To remove gas by sorption.

Synonyms

• get

Translations

Anagrams

• treget

French

Noun

getter m (plural getters)

1. (object-oriented programming) getter

Middle French

Etymology

Specifically from Old French geter, the northern variant of jeter (“to throw”)

Verb

getter

1. Alternative form of iecter

Conjugation

• Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

Swedish

Noun

getter

1. indefinite plural of get