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''Water-related meanings''
- A is a long, thin trough, usually one that runs straight.
- A (sometimes referred to as a Ditch ) runs along a Street Or Road (if there is a Sidewalk , the gutter is often between the road and the sidewalk) and carries water away from the thoroughfare into a Sewer .
- A (sometimes referred to as an '''eavestrough''', '''guttering''', or '''rain gutter'''), is a narrow channel which runs along the eaves of a building and serves to collect Rain Water and direct it down away from the roof to prevent drips off the roof edges.
''Other''
- In Bowling , the are long grooves on either side of a lane which are slightly wider than a bowling ball, and into which a ball can easily roll. If it does, the ball cannot strike any pins, and the player receives no points for that throw.
- In Editorial Design , the is the line where two pages come together in a Two-page Spread .
- In Typography a is the space between columns of printed text. This has been adapted into Comics Jargon to describe the narrow spaces between panels.
- In Comics , the is the space between the panels, and, according to Scott McCloud , is where all of the real action happens in a comic.
- In Internet Forums , the is a specialized forum where few to none of the forum's general rules apply, allowing approved Gutter members to post questionable content that would normally merit deletion in the general forum.
- The popular image of a drunk or bum lying in such a trench gave rise to the . Related to this popular usage are the Idiom s "to be in the gutter", meaning "to be down on one's Luck " and "having one's mind in the gutter", meaning "having vulgar thoughts".
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