trough
Phonetic
US /trɔːf/UK /trɒf/
Translations
NOUNA long, narrow container, open on top, for feeding or watering animals., Any similarly shaped container., Any similarly shaped container.
A rectangular container used for washing or rinsing clothes., A short, narrow canal designed to hold water until it drains or evaporates., A gutter under the eaves of a building; an eaves trough., 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., low turning point or a local minimum of a business cycle, A linear atmospheric depression associated with a weather front.
VERBTo eat in a vulgar style, as if from a trough.
Variants
- troughs: Third Person Singular, Plural
- troughing: Present Participle
- troughed: Past Participle, Past Tense
Examples
Timmer was more intrigued by what he saw in Texas, where strengthening low-altitude winds and a trough of moisture were set to coalesce in the afternoon.
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But Timmer was more intrigued by what he saw in Texas, where strengthening low-altitude winds and a trough of moisture were set to coalesce in the afternoon.
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When one wave’s peak met another’s trough, though, the light’s intensity would fall
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