(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 .
Lave
Definition:
(v. t.) To wash; to bathe; as, to lave a bruise.
(v. i.) To bathe; to wash one's self.
(v. t.) To lade, dip, or pour out.
(n.) The remainder; others.
Example Sentences:
(1) The additional fact that magnetite in lave flows also provides a persistent handed site for surface catalysis offers a further argument for the experimental investigation of this specific biopoetic environment.
(2) IFN alpha was localized to fetal chorionic villous syncytiotrophoblast throughout normal pregnancy, as well as to extravillous trophoblast in the placental bed and chorion lave.
(3) The number of mRNAov per tubular gland cell was also determined for egg-laving hen.
(4) The families were not significantly different in their functioning when compared to family norms established by Olson, Portner, and Lavee (1985).
(5) It is shown that the models used by Lave and Lave and by Steinwald and Neuhauser to generate empirical evidence can give different policy recommendations depending on the relative size of the proprietary and nonprofit bed stocks.
(6) Singer’s Los Angeles-based firm Lavely & Singer represents more than a dozen of the women affected, the director Bryan Singer and the actors John Travolta and Charlie Sheen.
(7) A framework for developing such rules based upon minimizing costs of false-positives and false-negatives was presented in a seminal paper by Lave and Omenn (1986, Nature (London), 324, 29-34).
(8) Lavely & Singer has written to various website operators and internet service providers (ISPs) demanding that the images be taken down under the DMCA.
(9) This is what the message said, printed in capitals (I’ve left the original spelling): “This is a lave [leave] area.