trough
Meaning of trough
noun
- 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.
- Any similarly shaped container.
- 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.
- A gutter under the eaves of a building; an eaves trough.
The troughs were filled with leaves and needed clearing.
- 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 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.
- A linear atmospheric depression associated with a weather front.
- To eat in a vulgar style, as if from a trough.
he troughed his way through three meat pies.
Information about trough
- The plural form of trough is: troughs.
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Hyphenation of trough
trough
- It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
- trough is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
trough synonyms
Meaning gutter:
Meaning bowl:
Meaning public treasury:
Meaning manger:
Translation of trough
- French: auge, creux, abreuvoir
- Spanish: abrevadero, comedero, canaleta, depresión, tempestad, borrasca, tormenta
Anagrams of trough
Words that rhyme with trough
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