trough

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Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA: /tɹɒf/
• (America) enPR: trôf, IPA: /tɹɔf/
• (America, cot-caught, Canada) enPR: trŏf, IPA: /tɹɑf/
• (US dialectal) enPR: trôth, IPA: /tɹɔθ/; (cot-caught) IPA: /tɹɑθ/

Noun

trough (plural troughs)

1. A long, narrow container, open on top, for feeding or watering animals.

   One of Hank's chores was to slop the pigs' trough each morning and evening.

2. Any similarly shaped container.
   • 1976, Frederick Bentham, The art of stage lighting (page 233)

     It just clips on the front of the stage without any special trough, has no great power and occupies only one dimmer, […]

   1. (Australia, New Zealand) A rectangular container used for washing or rinsing clothes.

      Ernest threw his paint brushes into a kind of trough he had fashioned from sheet metal that he kept in the sink.

3. A short, narrow canal designed to hold water until it drains or evaporates.

   There was a small trough that the sump pump emptied into; it was filled with mosquito larvae.

4. (Canada) A gutter under the eaves of a building; an eaves trough.

   The troughs were filled with leaves and needed clearing.

5. (agriculture, Australia, New Zealand) A channel for conveying water or other farm liquids (such as milk) from place to place by gravity; any ‘U’ or ‘V’ cross-sectioned irrigation channel.
6. A long, narrow depression between waves or ridges; the low portion of a wave cycle.

   The buoy bobbed between the crests and troughs of the waves moving across the bay.

   The neurologist pointed to a troubling trough in the pattern of his brain-waves.

7. (meteorology) A linear atmospheric depression associated with a weather front.

Synonyms

• manger (container for feeding animals)

Translations

• French: auge (for food), abreuvoir (for drinking)
• German: Trog, Futtertrog
• Italian: trogolo, abbeveratoio
• Portuguese: cocheira, comedouro, cocho
• Russian: коры́то
• Spanish: comedero, abrevadero

Translations

• German: Trog
• Italian: madia, tinozza, mastello
• Portuguese: cocho
• Russian: жёлоб

Translations

• Italian: canale di scolo
• Russian: кана́ва

Translations

• French: gouttière
• German: Dachrinne
• Italian: grondaia, gronda
• Portuguese: calha
• Russian: жёлоб
• Spanish: canaleta

Translations

• French: creux
• German: Wellental
• Italian: avvallamento, fossa
• Portuguese: vale
• Russian: впа́дина
• Spanish: valle

Translations

• French: thalweg
• Italian: superficie di attraversamento
• Portuguese: cavado
• Russian: ложби́на
• Spanish: vaguada

Verb

trough (troughs, present participle troughing; past and past participle troughed)

1. To eat in a vulgar style, as if from a trough.

   he troughed his way through three meat pies.

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