Palabra Inglés del Día

gutter

cuneta

Definiciones

inglés > español
gutter
1. s. Alcantarilla
2. s. Canaleta
3. adj. Vulgar
4. adj. Mezquino
5. adj. Amarillista
inglés > inglés
gutter
1. s. A prepared channel in a surface, especially at the side of a road adjacent to a curb, intended for the drainage of water.
2. s. A ditch along the side of a road.
3. s. A duct or channel beneath the eaves of a building to carry rain water; eavestrough.
The gutters must be cleared of leaves a few times a year.
4. s. (bowling) A groove down the sides of a bowling lane.
5. s. A large groove (commonly behind animals) in a barn used for the collection and removal of animal excrement.
6. s. Any narrow channel or groove, such as one formed by erosion in the vent of a gun from repeated firing.
7. s. (typography) A space between printed columns of text.
8. s. (printing) One of a number of pieces of wood or metal, grooved in the centre, used to separate the pages of type in a form.
9. s. (philately) An unprinted space between rows of stamps.
10. s. (British) A drainage channel.
11. s. The notional locus of things, acts, or events which are distasteful, ill bred or morally questionable.
12. s. (figuratively) A low, vulgar state.
Get your mind out of the gutter.
What kind of gutter language is that? I ought to wash your mouth out with soap.
13. v. To flow or stream; to form gutters.
14. v. (of a candle) To melt away by having the molten wax run down along the side of the candle.
15. v. (of a small flame) To flicker as if about to be extinguished.
16. v. To send (a bowling ball) into the gutter, not hitting any pins.
17. v. To supply with a gutter or gutters.
18. v. To cut or form into small longitudinal hollows; to channel.
19. s. One who or that which guts.
español > inglés
cuneta
1. n-f. roadside ditch
2. n-f. ditch
3. n-f. gutter