different between guttering vs spouting

English

Noun

guttering (usually uncountable, plural gutterings)

1. Gutters collectively.

Verb

guttering

1. present participle of gutter

Adjective

guttering

1. (of a small flame) flickering and about to be extinguished
   • 1919, Siegfried Sassoon, The Dug-out

     Why do you lie with your legs ungainly huddled,

     And one arm bent across your sullen cold

     Exhausted face? It hurts my heart to watch you,

     Deep-shadow'd from the candle's guttering gold;

English

Pronunciation

Adjective

spouting (not comparable)

1. (of a liquid) That is propelled in a narrow stream or jet.

Noun

spouting (plural spoutings)

1. The process or result of something being spouted; that which is spouted.

   Spoutings of lava shot from the crest of the volcano.

   The spoutings of a large whale can be seen from a great distance.

   • 1804, The Boiling Water-Spouts of Iceland, R. S. Kirby (editor), Kirby?s Wonderful and Scientific Museum, Volume 2, page 85,

     After these spoutings, the great Geyser remained quiet the whole night ; the water in the meanwhile rose gradually, and the bason was filled about four in the morning.

   • 2002 February, Bob Sillery, How it Works: Old Faithful, Popular Science, page 83,

     The average interval between its spoutings is 78 minutes.

   • 2005, Joseph Frank, 5: Spatial Form in Modern Literature, Michael J. Hoffman, Patrick D. Murphy (editors), Essentials of the Theory of Fiction, page 70,

     Saint-Loup, for another thing, is by way of being a family black sheep: seemingly uninterested in social success, a devoted student of Nietzsche and Proudhon, we are told that his head was full of “socialistic spoutings,” and that he was “imbued with the most prgound contempt for his caste.”

2. (Australia, New Zealand) A gutter under the eaves of a building; guttering.

   The spouting was filled with leaves and needed cleaning.

   • 1984, R. J. Willson, Building Your Own House: A Do-it-Yourself Guide to the New Zealand Timber Framed House, page 212,

     These items will include:

     galvanised-steel spoutings and downpipes — if used […] .

   • 2002, Brenda Niall, The Boyds, 2007, Melbourne University Press, page 207,

     The old house, neglected for so many years, needed painting and repairs: the roof leaked and the spoutings had rusted.

   • 2003, Russell Stewart, The Dolphin, Trafford Publishing, Canada, page 9,

     Water trickles away from gutterings and down spoutings into the big water tank at the back of the house.

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