Meaning

10 senses
  1. 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.

    Trog, Futtertrog, Mulde

    коры́тоkorýto, лоха́ньloxánʹ, корму́шкаkormúška

    кори́тоkorýto

    a long narrow shallow receptacle

  2. Any similarly shaped container.

  3. Any similarly shaped container.

    (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.

  4. 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.

    Graben, Rinne

    кана́ваkanáva, жёлобžólob

  5. (colloquial)An undivided metal urinal (plumbing fixture)

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

    The troughs were filled with leaves and needed clearing.

    Dachrinne

    жёлобžólob

  7. (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.

  8. 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.

    Wellental

    впа́динаvpádina, котлови́наkotlovína

    a narrow depression (as in the earth or between ocean waves or in the ocean bed)

  9. A low turning point or a local minimum of a business cycle.

  10. A linear atmospheric depression associated with a weather front.

    Tiefdruckrinne, Trog

    ложби́наložbína

Examples

6 sentences
  1. He put the clothes in the trough.

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  2. He slipped from the roof directly into the trough and drowned.

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  3. The wavelength is the distance from crest to crest, or from trough to trough.

    ruДлина волны — это расстояние от гребня до гребня или от впадины до впадины.

    deDie Wellenlänge ist der Abstand von Wellenberg zu Wellenberg, oder von Wellental zu Wellental.

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  4. Tom filled the trough.

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  5. He sits upright, not crouched over his plate like an animal at a feeding trough.

    ruОн сидит прямо, а не сгорбившись над тарелкой, словно животное во время кормежки.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
a long, narrow, open container for feeding animals:
Русский
By meaning 5
a long, narrow, open container for feeding animals:
a long, narrow container open at the top:
short, narrow drainage canal:
a long, narrow depression between waves or ridges:
a linear atmospheric depression associated with a weather front:
Deutsch
By meaning 5
a long, narrow, open container for feeding animals:
short, narrow drainage canal:
a gutter under the eaves of a building:
a long, narrow depression between waves or ridges:
a linear atmospheric depression associated with a weather front:

Forms

plural: troughs
Singulartrough
Pluraltroughs

regular

Synonyms

5 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a channel along the eaves or on the roof; collects and carries away rainwater:gutter
  • a container (usually in a barn or stable) from which cattle or horses feed:manger
  • a treasury for government funds:public treasurytill
  • a concave shape with an open top:bowl

Antonyms

1 antonyms

Word family

22 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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