Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

“gutters” is a form of

gutter

UK /ˈɡʌt.ə/ · US /ˈɡʌt.ɚ/ noun, verb, adjective, proper noun

Forms gutters guttering guttered

  1. noun A prepared channel in a surface, especially at the side of a road adjacent to a curb, intended for the drainage of water.
  2. noun A ditch along the side of a road.
  3. noun 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. noun (bowling) A groove down the sides of a bowling lane. “You can decide to use the bumpers to avoid the ball going down the gutter every time.”
  5. noun A large groove (commonly behind animals) in a barn used for the collection and removal of animal excrement.
  6. noun Any narrow channel or groove, such as one formed by erosion in the vent of a gun from repeated firing.
  7. noun (typography) A space between printed columns of text.
  8. noun (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. verb To flow or stream; to form gutters.
  10. verb (of a candle) To melt away by having the molten wax run down along the side of the candle.
  11. verb (of a small flame, or poetically, of eyes) To flicker as if about to be extinguished.
  12. verb (transitive) To send (a bowling ball) into the gutter, not hitting any pins.
  13. verb (transitive) To supply with a gutter or gutters.
  14. verb (transitive) To cut or form into small longitudinal hollows; to channel.
  15. verb (intransitive, uncommon) To worsen considerably. “The students' performance guttered after the school event.”
  16. adjective (informal, derogatory, figuratively) Vulgar, sordid, or low-class.
  17. noun One who or that which guts.
  18. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

cloam trough sewer toilet

Etymology

From Middle English gutter, guttur, goter, from Anglo-Norman guttere, from Old French goutiere (French gouttière), ultimately from Latin gutta (“drop”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A channel at the eaves of a roof for conveying away the rain; an eaves channel; an eaves trough.
  2. noun A small channel at the roadside or elsewhere, to lead off surface water.
  3. verb To cut or form into small longitudinal hollows; to channel. Shak.
  4. verb To supply with a gutter or gutters. [R.] Dryden.

Etymology [OE. gotere, OF. goutiere, F. gouttière, fr. OF. gote, goute, drop, F. goutte, fr. L. gutta.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “gutter”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “gutter” (best matches first).