What's the difference between drainpipe and gutter?

Drainpipe


Definition:

  • (n.) A pipe used for carrying off surplus water.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I just spent five days there, taking photos of the nature and listening rain drops on the leaves and drainpipe.
  • (2) Even so, the authors have decided not to hold an official launch in any of the crap 50, in case linguistic subtleties are lost on, say, Wolverhampton, where smells "permeate the town like the stench of a trapped animal slowly decaying in a drainpipe".
  • (3) If you haven't yet put water butts at the base of your drainpipes, why not?
  • (4) At a nearby house with yellow danger tape around it, the base of a drainpipe registered 22.1 microsieverts per hour.
  • (5) Bathwater and sludge in bathroom drainpipes may be an important habitat of Exophiala species.
  • (6) If your drainpipes that take rainwater off the roof of your home aren't connected to the sewerage system – and millions of properties aren't – you can apply for a rebate of between £17 and £50 a year.
  • (7) Staff at Hanson Academy turned away 152 pupils when they arrived for school on Tuesday morning, and a further 63 pupils were barred on Wednesday for a variety of breaches including the wrong trousers (drainpipes not allowed), the wrong shoes (trainers not allowed) and no tie.
  • (8) Samples of bathwater from 14 homes and 22 public bathhouses and sludge in drainpipes from 19 household bathrooms were plated out onto potato dextrose agar supplemented with chloramphenicol.
  • (9) Our practical experience ranges from coastal erosion and 18th century drainpipes being overwhelmed by heavier rainfall, through to book collections damaged by pests now surviving warmer winters."
  • (10) They were drainpipes, out of fashion, and I was the laughing stock of the school.
  • (11) The project was more or less complete – down to ornamental drainpipes and wooden-latticed balconies – when war broke out.
  • (12) Here’s the author William T Vollman on a visit in 2013: “Right by the pachinko parlour [the] scintillation counter read 4.2 microsieverts per hour — about 10 times the level of that mildly dangerous drainpipe in Hisanohama.
  • (13) With Friends, it strikes me as a case of ‘I’m a shareholder, get me out of here.’ “Both are up to their eyeballs in writing annuities, where new business is disappearing like a rat up a drainpipe.
  • (14) They lower her in and her two burly sons (in drainpipes and teddy-boy quiffs) shovel earth on top.
  • (15) De Halve Maan is in the final weeks of testing the beer pipeline: four separate polyethylene tubes that look like ordinary drainpipes.
  • (16) Buy pair of copper-coloured drainpipe jeans in Carnaby Street instead, but am made to return them because, apparently, they look "queer".
  • (17) The author of these words arrives in town in the late afternoon, driving a black Volvo 4X4, and dressed in togs that suggest the principal character from some noir thriller yet unmade, most of which match the colour of his car: a fedora hat, waistcoat, and daringly drainpipe trousers, set off with a white wing-collar shirt.
  • (18) Gaddafi was being pulled from a drainpipe just before Nasr fell.
  • (19) The reporting of MI6 help [for the 1996 plot], of Gaddafi being pulled out of a drainpipe and buggered with a bayonet - nobody cared,” she said.

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 .

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