TROUGH

Trough

A 'trough' is an elongated region of relatively low atmospheric pressure, often associated with fronts.

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trough

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.
  2. Any similarly shaped container.
    1. 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. A gutter under the eaves of a building; an eaves trough.
    The troughs were filled with leaves and needed clearing.
  5. 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.
  1. A linear atmospheric depression associated with a weather front.

Verb

  1. To eat in a vulgar style, as if eating from a trough
    he troughed his way through 3 meat pies.


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