gutter vs slide

slide vs gutter

gutter and slide both are nouns.

gutter and slide both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
gutter	Yes	No	Yes	No
slide	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, slide is a hyponym of gutter; that is, slide is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than gutter:

gutter: a channel along the eaves or on the roof; collects and carries away rainwater
slide: sloping channel through which things can descend

Other hyponyms of gutter include chute, slideway, sloping trough, cullis.

gutter (noun)	slide (noun)
a channel along the eaves or on the roof; collects and carries away rainwater	the act of moving smoothly along a surface while remaining in contact with it
a tool for gutting fish	sloping channel through which things can descend
a worker who guts things (fish or buildings or cars etc.)	a transparency mounted in a frame; viewed with a slide projector
misfortune resulting in lost effort or money	a small flat rectangular piece of glass on which specimens can be mounted for microscopic study
	plaything consisting of a sloping chute down which children can slide
	(music) rapid sliding up or down the musical scale
	(geology) the descent of a large mass of earth or rocks or snow etc.

gutter (verb)	slide (verb)
provide with gutters	to pass or move unobtrusively or smoothly
wear or cut gutters into	move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner
flow in small streams	move smoothly along a surface
burn unsteadily, feebly, or low; flicker

Difference between gutter and slide

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