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Etymology
[edit]From Middle English trogh, from Old English troh, trog (“a trough, tub, basin, vessel for containing liquids or other materials”), from Proto-West Germanic *trog, from Proto-Germanic *trugą, *trugaz, from Proto-Indo-European *drukós, enlargement of *dóru (“tree”).
See also West Frisian trôch, Dutch trog, German Trog, Danish trug, Swedish tråg; also Middle Irish drochta (“wooden basin”), Old Armenian տարգալ (targal, “ladle, spoon”). More at tree.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /tɹɒf/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- (US) enPR: trôf, IPA(key): /tɹɔf/
- (Canada) IPA(key): /tɹɒf/
- (US, dialectal) enPR: trôth, IPA(key): /tɹɔθ/
- (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /tɹɑθ/
- Rhymes: -ɒf
Noun
[edit]trough (plural troughs)
- 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.
- 1961 November, “Talking of Trains: The North Eastern's new rail-mounted piling unit”, in Trains Illustrated, page 646:
- Now, covered concrete troughs to house the cables are laid parallel with the railway lines, cheapening maintenance because of improved accessibility for inspection and repair.
- 1976, Frederick Bentham, The art of stage lighting, page 233:
- It just clips on the front of the stage without any special trough, has no great power and occupies only one dimmer, […]
- (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.
- 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.
- (colloquial) An undivided metal urinal (plumbing fixture)
- (Canada) A gutter under the eaves of a building; an eaves trough.
- The troughs were filled with leaves and needed clearing.
- (agriculture, 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 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.
- (economics) A low turning point or a local minimum of a business cycle.
- Antonym: peak
- (meteorology) A linear atmospheric depression associated with a weather front.
Synonyms
[edit]- manger (container for feeding animals)
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]a long, narrow, open container for feeding animals
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a long, narrow container open at the top
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short, narrow drainage canal
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a gutter under the eaves of a building
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a long, narrow depression between waves or ridges
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a linear atmospheric depression associated with a weather front
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Verb
[edit]trough (third-person singular simple present troughs, present participle troughing, simple past and past participle troughed)
- To eat in a vulgar style, as if from a trough.
- He troughed his way through three meat pies.
References
[edit]- Oxford English Dictionary Online
See also
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[edit]Middle English
[edit]Noun
[edit]trough
- Alternative form of trogh
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