gutter
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a channel along the eaves or on the roof; collects and carries away rainwater
Types & categories
Parts & wholes
- gable roof part holonym
Related & opposite
- gutter derivation
Sense 2 verb
burn unsteadily, feebly, or low; flicker
The cooling lava continued to gutter toward lower ground
Types & categories
- burn hypernym
Sense 3 noun
misfortune resulting in lost effort or money
his career was in the gutter
Types & categories
- bad luck hypernym
Sense 4 verb
flow in small streams
Tears guttered down her face
Types & categories
- course hypernym
Sense 5 noun
a worker who guts things (fish or buildings or cars etc.)
Types & categories
- worker hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 6 verb
wear or cut gutters into
The heavy rain guttered the soil
Types & categories
- dig into hypernym
Sense 7 noun
a tool for gutting fish
Types & categories
- hand tool hypernym
Related & opposite
- gut derivation
Sense 8 verb
provide with gutters
gutter the buildings
Types & categories
- ply hypernym
Related & opposite
- gutter derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | gutter |
| 1 | part holonym | Parts & wholes | gable roof |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | channel |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | slideway |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | cullis |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | burn |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | bad luck |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | course |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | gut |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | gut |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | worker |
| 6 | hypernym | Types & categories | dig into |
| 7 | derivation | Related & opposite | gut |
| 7 | hypernym | Types & categories | hand tool |
| 8 | derivation | Related & opposite | gutter |
| 8 | hypernym | Types & categories | ply |