trough
Pronunciation
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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/
trough (plural troughs)
- 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.
- 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, […]
- (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.
- 1976, Frederick Bentham, The art of stage lighting (page 233)
- 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.
- (Canada) A gutter under the eaves of a building; an eaves trough.
- The troughs were filled with leaves and needed clearing.
- (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.
- 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.
- (meteorology) A linear atmospheric depression associated with a weather front.
- manger (container for feeding animals)
- French: auge (for food), abreuvoir (for drinking)
- German: Trog, Futtertrog
- Italian: trogolo, abbeveratoio
- Portuguese: cocheira, comedouro, cocho
- Russian: коры́то
- Spanish: comedero, abrevadero
- Italian: canale di scolo
- Russian: кана́ва
- French: gouttière
- German: Dachrinne
- Italian: grondaia, gronda
- Portuguese: calha
- Russian: жёлоб
- Spanish: canaleta
- French: creux
- German: Wellental
- Italian: avvallamento, fossa
- Portuguese: vale
- Russian: впа́дина
- Spanish: valle
- French: thalweg
- Italian: superficie di attraversamento
- Portuguese: cavado
- Russian: ложби́на
- Spanish: vaguada
trough (troughs, present participle troughing; past and past participle troughed)
- To eat in a vulgar style, as if from a trough.
- he troughed his way through three meat pies.
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