What's the difference between guttering and puttering?

Guttering


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gutter

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 .

Puttering


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Putter

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Echocardiographic studies and radiological measurements of heart volume were performed in 30 female track athletes, 17 female shot-putters or javelin throwers, 12 nonathletic women and 8 female patients with arterial hypertension.
  • (2) Thomas Putter, director of Allianz Infrastructure, said this afternoon: "We believe that our offers fully reflect the value inherent in the business and we cannot justify an increase in our offers to our investors."
  • (3) On the poop deck of a party boat puttering slowly out into the Adriatic stands a gently balding and teetotal Canadian in studious specs and sandals.
  • (4) An economy that continues to putter along with high unemployment and mediocre growth will keep his approval ratings in negative territory.
  • (5) The Dow has puttered along at about a half-percentage-point down from Friday.
  • (6) Outside, the crowd puttered towards the exit, a recognisable song playing them out.
  • (7) smiles Jude Sayer, our guide to Norwich, as we stand by the river Wensum watching the motor boats puttering towards Wroxham.
  • (8) But before we do that, there's time to hand out a couple of minor gongs: The Award For The Team Top at Christmas Blowing It In The Most Spectacular Fashion: A few candidates for this, though no one has been top at the end of Christmas Day and finished outside the top four since 1972, with the exception of John Gregory's Aston Villa in 1998-99, who won just five of their 20 post Crimbo fixtures to putter sadly into sixth come May.
  • (9) He also found the sand on the 461-yard 10th, and again saved with the putter, by now his only friend.
  • (10) Under the guidance of PUTTER and REINEBOTH a first dispensary for tuberculous patients was established and became the prototype of similar institutions in Germany and other countries.
  • (11) In this paper the long term effect of conservative non-surgical treatment in two body-builders and one shot-putter is discussed, who reported the partial rupture while performing bench lifts with barbells.
  • (12) But, then I think about some of his expressed views about philosophers, especially in Small Gods and wonder what he really makes of us,” said South, citing Pratchett’s dictum that “whenever you see a bunch of buggers puttering around talking about truth and beauty and the best way of attacking Ethics, you can bet your sandals it’s all because dozens of other poor buggers are doing all the real work around the place.” “Of course, some of these observations hit close to home,” South added.
  • (13) The Australian also offered as good an argument as any for hideous, long-handled putters not really proving the answer to bother on the greens despite suggestions to the contrary.
  • (14) In almost every case, the regression functions for the shot-putters show an approximately linear relationship between the morphological variables and the result of the shot-putt.
  • (15) "At 18 you should putt well and he's a good putter.
  • (16) In the way that a scent lingers, I can still feel my Honda 125 puttering away while waves of heat from the endless sunshine and exhausts bounced to and fro between those venerable curving walls.
  • (17) In January, the website Grantland (which is owned by ESPN Internet Ventures , a subsidiary of the Walt Disney Company ) published an article – ostensibly about the inventor of a golf putter – that resulted in a prurient quest to uncover the subject's trans status, and which may have contributed to the article's subject's suicide.
  • (18) A minute later Enriqué tries a curler but the execeution isn't as good as his imagination and it putters two yards wide.
  • (19) The New Zealand shot putter Valerie Adams is also competing as she seeks to recover her best form after surgery.
  • (20) It is not a collective panic in the chancelleries of the west that Johnson might make some inappropriate joke about Putin’s chest muscles or Soviet-era female shot-putters at a time of heightened political tension.

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