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Gutter vs. Slum — What's the Difference?

Gutter vs. Slum — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Gutter and Slum

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Gutter

A shallow trough fixed beneath the edge of a roof for carrying off rainwater.

Slum

A slum is a highly populated urban residential area consisting of densely packed housing units of weak built quality. The infrastructure in slums is often deteriorated or incomplete, and it's primarily inhabited by impoverished people.

Gutter

The blank space between facing pages of a book or between adjacent columns of type or stamps in a sheet.

Slum

A heavily populated urban area characterized by substandard housing and squalor
Grew up in a slum near downtown.
Lived in the slums by the river.

Gutter

(of a candle or flame) flicker and burn unsteadily.
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Slum

To visit impoverished areas or squalid locales, especially out of curiosity or for amusement.

Gutter

Make channels or furrows in (something)
My cheeks are guttered with tears

Slum

(countable) A dilapidated neighborhood where many people live in a state of poverty.

Gutter

A channel at the edge of a street or road for carrying off surface water.

Slum

Inexpensive trinkets awarded as prizes in a carnival game.

Gutter

A trough fixed under or along the eaves for draining rainwater from a roof. Also called regionally eaves trough, rainspout, spouting.

Slum

(slang) Slumgullion; a meat-based stew.

Gutter

A furrow or groove formed by running water.

Slum

(intransitive) To visit a neighborhood of a status below one's own.

Gutter

A trough or channel for carrying something off, such as that on either side of a bowling alley or that almost level with the water in some swimming pools.

Slum

To saunter about in a disreputable manner.

Gutter

(Printing) The white space formed by the inner margins of two facing pages, as of a book.

Slum

A foul back street of a city, especially one filled with a poor, dirty, degraded, and often vicious population; any low neighborhood or dark retreat; - usually in the plural; as, Westminster slums are haunts for theives.

Gutter

A degraded and squalid class or state of human existence.

Slum

Same as Slimes.

Gutter

To form gutters or furrows in
Heavy rain guttered the hillside.

Slum

To visit or frequent slums, esp. out of curiosity, or for purposes of study, etc. Also called go slumming.

Gutter

To provide with gutters.

Slum

A district of a city marked by poverty and inferior living conditions

Gutter

To flow in channels or rivulets
Rainwater guttered along the curb.

Slum

Visit slums for entertainment or out of curiosity

Gutter

To melt away through the side of the hollow formed by a burning wick. Used of a candle.

Gutter

To burn low and unsteadily; flicker
The flame guttered in the lamp.

Gutter

Vulgar, sordid, or unprincipled
Gutter language.
The gutter press.

Gutter

A prepared channel in a surface, especially at the side of a road adjacent to a curb, intended for the drainage of water.

Gutter

A ditch along the side of a road.

Gutter

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.

Gutter

(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.

Gutter

A large groove (commonly behind animals) in a barn used for the collection and removal of animal excrement.

Gutter

Any narrow channel or groove, such as one formed by erosion in the vent of a gun from repeated firing.

Gutter

(typography) A space between printed columns of text.

Gutter

(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.

Gutter

(philately) An unprinted space between rows of stamps.

Gutter

(British) A drainage channel.

Gutter

The notional locus of things, acts, or events which are distasteful, ill bred or morally questionable.

Gutter

(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.

Gutter

(comics) The spaces between comic book panels.

Gutter

One who or that which guts.

Gutter

To flow or stream; to form gutters.

Gutter

(of a candle) To melt away by having the molten wax run down along the side of the candle.

Gutter

(of a small flame) To flicker as if about to be extinguished.

Gutter

(transitive) To send (a bowling ball) into the gutter, not hitting any pins.

Gutter

(transitive) To supply with a gutter or gutters.

Gutter

(transitive) To cut or form into small longitudinal hollows; to channel.

Gutter

A channel at the eaves of a roof for conveying away the rain; an eaves channel; an eaves trough.

Gutter

A small channel at the roadside or elsewhere, to lead off surface water.
Gutters running with ale.

Gutter

Any narrow channel or groove; as, a gutter formed by erosion in the vent of a gun from repeated firing.

Gutter

Either of two sunken channels at either side of the bowling alley, leading directly to the sunken pit behind the pins. Balls not thrown accurately at the pins will drop into such a channel bypassing the pins, and resulting in a score of zero for that bowl.

Gutter

To cut or form into small longitudinal hollows; to channel.

Gutter

To supply with a gutter or gutters.

Gutter

To become channeled, as a candle when the flame flares in the wind.

Gutter

A channel along the eaves or on the roof; collects and carries away rainwater

Gutter

Misfortune resulting in lost effort or money;
His career was in the gutter
All that work went down the sewer
Pensions are in the toilet

Gutter

A worker who guts things (fish or buildings or cars etc.)

Gutter

A tool for gutting fish

Gutter

Burn unsteadily, feebly, or low; flicker;
The cooling lava continued to gutter toward lower ground

Gutter

Flow in small streams;
Tears guttered down her face

Gutter

Wear or cut gutters into;
The heavy rain guttered the soil

Gutter

Provide with gutters;
Gutter the buildings

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