gutter

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How to pronounce gutter in British English: 英 [ˈɡʌtə(r)] word uk audio image

How to pronounce gutter in American English: 美 [ˈɡʌtər] word us audio image

Noun:

a channel along the eaves or on the roof; collects and carries away rainwater
misfortune resulting in lost effort or money
a worker who guts things (fish or buildings or cars etc.)
a tool for gutting fish
Verb:

burn unsteadily, feebly, or low; flicker
flow in small streams
wear or cut gutters into
provide with gutters

单词词源

gutter: gutter: [13] Etymologically, a gutter is something along which ‘drops’ of water run. Its distant ancestor is Latin gutta ‘drop’ (source also of English gout). From it was formed the Vulgar Latin derivative *guttāria, which passed into English via Anglo-Norman gotere. The use of the word as a verb, meaning (of a flame) ‘flicker on the point of going out’, comes from the channel, or ‘gutter’, formed down one side of a candle by the melted wax flowing away.=> gout

gutter (n.): late 13c., "watercourse, water drainage channel along the side of a street," from Anglo-French gotere, Old French guitere, goutiere "gutter, spout" of water (12c., Modern French gouttière), from goute "a drop," from Latin gutta "a drop" (see gout). Meaning "furrow made by running water" is from 1580s. Meaning "trough under the eaves of a roof to carry off rainwater" is from mid-14c. Figurative sense of "low, profane" is from 1818. In printers' slang, from 1841.

gutter (v.): late 14c., "to make or run in channels" (transitive), from gutter (n.). Intransitive use, in reference to candles (1706) it is from the channel that forms as the molten wax flows off. Related: Guttered; guttering.

1. Comatose teenagers line every gutter in the boozy britain of popular imagination .

4. Scandals over contaminated food - most recently gutter oil - have caused considerable public alarm in china in recent years .

5. Discharge gutter downspouts properly , slope ground away from the house and seal foundation flaws and cracks-this will also help .