trough

Etymology
From, from , , from , from , , from , enlargement of.

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Pronunciation




Noun

 * 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.
 * 1) Any similarly shaped container.
 * 2)  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.
 * 1) 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.
 * 1)  An undivided metal urinal (plumbing fixture)
 * 2)  A gutter under the eaves of a building; an eaves trough.
 * The troughs were filled with leaves and needed clearing.
 * 1)  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.
 * 2) 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.
 * 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.


 * 1)  A low turning point or a local minimum of a business cycle.
 * 2)  A linear atmospheric depression associated with a weather front.
 * 1)  A linear atmospheric depression associated with a weather front.

Synonyms

 * (container for feeding animals)

Translations

 * Albanian: ,
 * Arabic: فِنْطَاس
 * Armenian:, կերակրատաշտ,
 * Basque: ganbela
 * Belarusian: кары́та
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:, obi
 * Chickasaw: piini'
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 料槽,
 * Chuvash: такана
 * Crimean Tatar: oluq
 * Czech: koryto,
 * Danish: trug
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: trogo
 * Finnish:
 * French: (for food),  (for drinking)
 * Galician: barcal, manxadoiro, pexegueira, presel, (for food),,  (for drinking), ,
 * German:, ,
 * Alemannic German: Barme
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: φάτνη
 * Hebrew: (shòket)
 * Hungarian:
 * Ingrian: allas
 * Irish: trach
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: かいばおけ
 * Korean: 구유
 * Latvian:
 * Macedonian: ко́рито
 * Maori:, hake
 * Mongolian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: trau
 * Nynorsk: trau
 * Old English: trog
 * Oromo: bidiruu
 * Persian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:, comedouro,
 * Romanian:, , vălău
 * Russian:, ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: amar
 * Serbo-Croatian:, корито,
 * Sicilian: abbiviraturi, ,
 * Slovak:, žľab, hrant
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: kóryto
 * Upper Sorbian: korto
 * Spanish: comedero (for food), (for drinking)
 * Swedish:, , matho,  vattenho
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Vietnamese:, máng ăn


 * Bulgarian:
 * Chickasaw: piini'
 * Danish: kar, trug
 * Finnish:
 * Galician:, ,
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Ingrian: allas
 * Italian:, ,
 * Latin: linter
 * Macedonian: ко́рито
 * Norwegian:, trau
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: amar
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * * Sicilian:, vacila, ,
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: kóryto
 * Swedish:


 * Danish:
 * Galician: suarego
 * German: ,
 * Italian: canale di scolo
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Sicilian: canali, canaluni, lavanaru
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Danish:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: canlón
 * German:
 * Hebrew:
 * Italian: ,
 * Latvian: rene, tekne, notekrene
 * Norwegian: takrenne
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Sicilian: canala, canalata
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Danish: bølgedal
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Italian: ,
 * Latvian: dziļvaga, ieplaka
 * Macedonian: па́дина
 * Maori: ngao, awaawa
 * Norwegian: bølgedal
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Sicilian: vaḍḍuni, fossu
 * Slovak:, údolie, úval, úžľabina
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: vågdal
 * Tagalog: lambak


 * Catalan: tàlveg
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish: lavtryksudløber, trug
 * Finnish: matalapaineen alue
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Italian: superficie di attraversamento
 * Norwegian: lavtrykksrenne
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Dutch:
 * Georgian:

Verb

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