dilute vs gutter

dilute

noun
  • An animal having a lighter-coloured coat than is usual. 

verb
  • To cause the value of individual shares or the stake of a shareholder to decrease by increasing the total number of shares. 

  • To become attenuated, thin, or weak. 

  • To weaken, especially by adding a foreign substance. 

  • To make thinner by adding solvent to a solution, especially by adding water. 

adj
  • Of an animal: having a lighter-coloured coat than is usual. 

  • Having a low concentration. 

  • Weak; reduced in strength by dilution; diluted. 

gutter

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

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

  • A duct or channel beneath the eaves of a building to carry rain water; eavestrough. 

  • A groove down the sides of a bowling lane. 

  • A ditch along the side of a road. 

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

  • A space between printed columns of text. 

  • An unprinted space between rows of stamps. 

  • One of a number of pieces of wood or metal, grooved in the centre, used to separate the pages of type in a form. 

  • A drainage channel. 

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

  • A low, vulgar state. 

  • The spaces between comic book panels. 

  • One who or that which guts. 

verb
  • To flow or stream; to form gutters. 

  • To flicker as if about to be extinguished. 

  • To melt away by having the molten wax run down along the side of the candle. 

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

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

  • To supply with a gutter or gutters. 

How often have the words dilute and gutter occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )