What's the difference between bowling and gutter?

Bowling


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bowl
  • (n.) The act of playing at or rolling bowls, or of rolling the ball at cricket; the game of bowls or of tenpins.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) After friends heard that he was on them, Brumfield started observing something strange: “If we had people over to the Super Bowl or a holiday season party, I’d notice that my medicines would come up short, no matter how good friends they were.” Twice people broke into his house to get to the drugs.
  • (2) If you turn the bowl upside down, the whites should be stiff enough not to fall out.
  • (3) With their 43-8 win , the Seahawks did more than just produce one of the most dominant performances in Super Bowl history, they gave the city of Seattle its first major professional sports win in 35 years .
  • (4) Put in a large bowl, add the parsley, oil and lemon juice, and gently toss.
  • (5) Place the blackberries in a bowl and scatter over the caster sugar and orange zest.
  • (6) Two weeks later the Colts would prevail 29-17 at Super Bowl XLI.
  • (7) The restaurant was already castigated by Channel Four News for serving £4 bowls of cereal in a borough in which thousands of poor families can’t afford to feed their children.
  • (8) Tip out the mix into a large bowl and add the sugar.
  • (9) Bowles achieved a total of 70,300 votes, while Mansell had 65,923 – a difference of 4,377.
  • (10) Through small and large acts of deprivation and destruction we follow the process: the removal of hope, of dignity, of luxury, of necessity, of self; the reduction of a man to a hoarder of grey slabs of bread and the scrapings of a soup bowl (wonderfully told all this, with a novelist's gift for detail and sometimes very nearly comic surprise), to the confinement of a narrow bed – in which there is "not even any room to be afraid" – with a stranger who doesn't speak your language, to the cruel illogicality of hating a fellow victim of oppression more than you hate the oppressor himself – one torment following another, and even the bleak comfort of thinking you might have touched rock bottom denied you as, when the most immediate cause of a particular stress comes to an end, "you are grievously amazed to see that another one lies behind; and in reality a whole series of others".
  • (11) The responses appeared to refer directly to Operation Sovereign Borders, but the immigration department secretary, Martin Bowles, later interjected to clarify that they were meant as general responses to operational matters.
  • (12) x head "We have the begging bowl out to Europe in the hope of stabilising our economy.
  • (13) Melissa Miller, an associated professor of political science at Bowling Green state university in northern Ohio, said it was notable that Obama and his running mate, Joe Biden, made many more visits to Ohio campuses this year.
  • (14) For a time it did indeed appear as though Manning was destined to follow the same path as Marino – his great idol – remembered as one of the all-time greats but forever haunted over his failure to win a Super Bowl.
  • (15) To make the ricotta cakes, separate the egg yolks from the whites, putting the whites into a bowl large enough to beat them in.
  • (16) Roberts, who has also streaked at the Super Bowl and Royal Ascot, scored in the Liverpool v Chelsea Carling Cup game at Anfield in 2000 and the 2002 Champions League final, between Real Madrid and Bayer Leverkusen.
  • (17) That will end the college football season, but hey I just realized that the NFL Playoffs are still going on which means we'll have more football liveblogging here at the Guardian starting again this weekend where we will cover every game up to the Super Bowl.
  • (18) Thirty-five normal-hearing listeners' speech discrimination scores were obtained for the California Consonant Test (CCT) in four noise competitors: (1) a four talker complex (FT), (2) a nine-talker complex developed at Bowling Green State University (BGMTN), (3) cocktail party noise (CPN), and (4) white noise (WN).
  • (19) I’ve seen them listed at odds as long as 33-1 for the Super Bowl, which definitely seemed too long to me.
  • (20) Last year in a Radar accessible toilet I discovered a dirty syringe in the bowl.

Gutter


Definition:

  • (n.) A channel at the eaves of a roof for conveying away the rain; an eaves channel; an eaves trough.
  • (n.) A small channel at the roadside or elsewhere, to lead off surface water.
  • (n.) Any narrow channel or groove; as, a gutter formed by erosion in the vent of a gun from repeated firing.
  • (v. t.) To cut or form into small longitudinal hollows; to channel.
  • (v. t.) To supply with a gutter or gutters.
  • (v. i.) To become channeled, as a candle when the flame flares in the wind.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This is basically a large tank (the bigger the better) that collects rain from the house guttering and pumps it into the home, to be used for flushing the loo.
  • (2) These lanes encourage cyclists to 'ride in the gutter' which in itself is a very dangerous riding position – especially on busy congested roads as it places the cyclist right in a motorist's blind spot.
  • (3) The size of presynaptic release site structures was determined by examining serial transverse sections through entire terminal branches with the transmission electron microscope; the size of postsynaptic release site structures was determined by examining terminal gutters with the scanning electron microscope after the removal of terminal branches.
  • (4) Yes, Goldsmith is to be held in contempt: a man of decency would have rejected this gutter strategy.
  • (5) More time in bed, more time with the kids, more time to read, see your mum, hang out with friends, repair the guttering, make music, fix lunch, walk in the park.
  • (6) Had they bothered to inquire of a veteran from the ranks, they might have heard how exasperating it is to see the dainty long-range patriots of Labour thrashing it out with the staunch gutter jingoists of the Conservative party – and barely a non-commissioned vet among them.
  • (7) No clear gross or histological distinctions between the ventricular "candle gutterings" and "tumors" have been identified.
  • (8) Most transposed ovaries were located along the paracolic gutters near the iliac crests, creating an extrinsic mass effect on adjacent bowel.
  • (9) Golf balls, bottles, fireworks, umbrellas and even cast iron rain gutter was thrown at republicans marching along Royal Avenue.
  • (10) !— she wants you to put out the bins and clear the gutters of leaves like you’ve been promising to do for six months.
  • (11) A one-piece integral tube and plate with a slit-valve mechanism designed to regulate post-operative intraocular pressure had a very variable response in 27 eyes, with mean pressures similar to those after unligated tube and gutters.
  • (12) Blood gutters brightly against his green gown, yet the man doesn't shudder or stagger or sink but trudges towards them on those tree-trunk legs and rummages around, reaches at their feet and cops hold of his head and hoists it high, and strides to his steed, snatches the bridle, steps into the stirrup and swings into the saddle still gripping his head by a handful of hair.
  • (13) In the second, density would decrease from the crest border, where the value was that of the gutter edge, to the fold end, where the value would be 50% lower.
  • (14) Following the sting, Ferguson apologised for a “serious lapse of judgment” and told the US talkshow host Oprah Winfrey she had been drinking and was “in the gutter at that moment”.
  • (15) The characteristics of the innervation revealed by the cholinesterase activity, concentrated in the synaptic gutters and the direct study of the nerve fibres, show focal, mono-axonal 'en plaques' endings, typical of the phasic motor system.
  • (16) The flame of ultra Serb nationalism appears to be guttering, although it could be replaced with a quieter long-lasting resentment.
  • (17) For larger exposure of the artery, the foramen transversarium of C1 must be unroofed and the artery dissected in the guttering of the posterior arch of the atlas.
  • (18) In a surgical technique termed ovarian transposition, the ovary is repositioned to the iliac fossa or paracolic gutter outside the radiation field.
  • (19) That “trollumnist” Mark Latham, that “misogynist”, “venal”, “crazy-eyed moron” whose views should be “rejected and dismantled and kicked into the gutter where they belong” has resigned from the Australian Financial Review.
  • (20) This comes from a man who insisted on a mass cull of badgers against scientific advice , who stripped away the last regulations protecting the soil from erosion , who believed that “ the purpose of waterways is to get rid of water ” and sought to turn our rivers into featureless gutters ,and who championed the pesticides that appear to be destroying bees and other animals .