gutter
part of speech
noun (a gutter, gutters); verb (gutter, gutters, guttered, guttering — of a candle)
meaning for a pupil
1) A long open pipe along the edge of a roof that carries rainwater away. tree →
2) The low channel at the edge of a street that takes rainwater to drains. tree →
3) The channel along the sides of a bowling lane. tree →
4) (verb, of a candle flame) To flicker and almost go out. tree →
5) (the gutter) A very poor or low way of living. tree →
sense in the lessons
In everyday life and safety: blocked gutters overflow; never play near street gutters and drains in heavy rain. In science about the water cycle: rainwater runs from roofs through gutters and drains to rivers. In bowling a «gutter ball» misses all the pins. Phrases: «clean the gutters», «in the gutter», «gutter ball».
examples
- And he set the rods which he had peeled over against the flocks in the gutters in the watering-troughs where the flocks came to drink; and they conceived when they came to drink. (Torah GEN.30.38, JPS 1917) tree →
- And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger of the flock did conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the flock in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods; (Torah GEN.30.41, JPS 1917) tree →
- Dad climbed a ladder to clean the leaves out of the gutters. tree →
- Rainwater rushed along the gutter into the drain. tree →
- My ball went into the gutter at the bowling alley. tree →
- The candle guttered and went out. tree →
- I dropped my coin and it rolled into the gutter. tree →
- Don't play in the gutter when it rains. tree →
- What great waves there were in the gutter, and what a swift current! tree →
note
Countable. Verb (candle): guttered, guttering. Related: guttering (the gutters of a house as a whole, UK). Gutter press means cheap, nasty newspapers.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «gutter» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.