trough
A long, narrow container, open on top, for feeding or watering animalsA long, narrow container, open on top, for feeding or watering animals.
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» He put the clothes in the trough.
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Examples
6 sentencesHe put the clothes in the trough.
He slipped from the roof directly into the trough and drowned.
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. — odexed
deDie Wellenlänge ist der Abstand von Wellenberg zu Wellenberg, oder von Wellental zu Wellental. — Yorwba
Meaning
10 sensesA 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 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)
A linear atmospheric depression associated with a weather front.
Tiefdruckrinne, Trog
ложби́наložbína
More meanings 7
(Canada)A gutter under the eaves of a building; an eaves trough.
The troughs were filled with leaves and needed clearing.
Dachrinne
жёлобžólob
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
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.
Any similarly shaped container.
(colloquial)An undivided metal urinal (plumbing fixture)
(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 low turning point or a local minimum of a business cycle.
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