Sekirov Dictionary

trough

/tɹɒf/

noun 10
verb 1
forms 4

noun10

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A long, narrow container, open on top, for feeding or watering animals.
- One of Harriet's chores was to slop the pigs' trough each morning and evening.
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Any similarly shaped container.
- Now, covered concrete troughs to house the cables are laid parallel with the railway lines, cheapening maintenance because of improved accessibility for inspection and repair. — 1961
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(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.
(informal) An undivided metal urinal (plumbing fixture)
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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.
A low turning point or a local minimum of a business cycle.
A linear atmospheric depression associated with a weather front.
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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.
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(Canada) A gutter under the eaves of a building; an eaves trough.
- The troughs were filled with leaves and needed clearing.
(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.

verb1

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To eat in a vulgar style, as if from a trough.
- He troughed his way through three meat pies.

forms

troughed · troughing · troughs · Troughs

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