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trough
English
Etymology
From Middle English trough, trowgh, trow, trou?, trogh, from Old English troh, trog (“a trough, tub, basin, vessel for containing liquids or other materials”), from Proto-Germanic *trug?, *trugaz (compare West Frisian trôch, Dutch trog, German Trog, Swedish tråg), from Proto-Indo-European *dru-kó (compare Middle Irish drochta (“wooden basin”), Old Armenian ?????? (targal, “ladle, spoon”), enlargement of *dóru (“tree”)). More at tree.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /t??f/
- (US) enPR: trôf, IPA(key): /t??f/
- (US, cot–caught merger, Canada) enPR: tr?f, IPA(key): /t??f/
- (US dialectal) enPR: trôth, IPA(key): /t???/; (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /t???/
- Rhymes: -?f
Noun
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.
- 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.
- 1976, Frederick Bentham, The art of stage lighting (page 233)
- 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.
- (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.
- (meteorology) A linear atmospheric depression associated with a weather front.
Synonyms
- manger (container for feeding animals)
Derived terms
- water trough
Translations
Verb
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
- Oxford English Dictionary Online
See also
- crib
- ditch
- trench
Anagrams
- Rought, rought
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adj
English
Noun
adj (plural adjs)
- Alternative spelling of adj.
Anagrams
- JAD, Jad
Hungarian
Alternative forms
- adjál
Etymology
ad +? -j
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [????]
- Hyphenation: adj
- Rhymes: -???
Verb
adj
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