gutter
地沟,水沟,沟渠,地沟油
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Definitions
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- : a channel at the side or in the middle of a road or street, for leading off surface water.
- : a channel at the eaves or on the roof of a building, for carrying off rainwater.
- : any channel, trough, or the like for carrying off fluid.
- : a furrow or channel made by running water.
- : Bowling. a sunken channel extending along each side of a bowling lane, to catch balls that stray over the edge.
- : the state or abode of those who live in degradation, squalor, etc.: the language of the gutter.
- : the white space formed by the inner margins of two facing pages in a bound book, magazine, or newspaper.
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- : to flow in streams.
- : to lose molten wax accumulated in a hollow space around the wick.
- : to burn low or to be blown so as to be nearly extinguished.
- : to form gutters, as water does.
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- : to make gutters in; channel.
- : to furnish with a gutter or gutters: to gutter a new house.
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Examples
Yes, you might have to recharge your blower—but odds are your gutters aren’t going to need hours of power to get things clean.
For example, single family homes would pay a flat fee, no matter how well built they were to send the water into the ground instead of out into the gutter.
The other day, I watched as one of the parents perched on one of our gutters, a worm hanging from its beak.
Replacing your gutters may cost you a little more than planting flowers and painting your door, however, it will go a long way in your home’s curb appeal.
Vinyl gutter systems are less expensive but are infamous for cracking over time in our cold weather.
He piles the trash into the can and stands in the gutter, waiting for the light to change.
Speaking with The Tottenville Review, Foy calls his school of writing “gutter opera.”
But all publications seem to go to the gutter when it comes to Lewinsky.
But I reserve the distinction for gutter dwelling and otherwise abhorrent behavior to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder.
Davis begins the film, punched by an aggressor into the gutter and ends it the same way.
A drunken man would reel from one side to the other until he fell down a cellar trap-door, into the gutter, or into the sea.
And to think that those documents are perhaps lying in the gutter at this very moment!
He was in a dreadful condition—a soiled and hopeless mass from the gutter out of which he had been rescued.
At the doors people sit drinking round tables placed on the pavement or in the rank, poisonous gutter.
He had been drunk over in town, and laid in the gutter all night, and he was a sight to look at.