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trough

(trôf, trŏf)

a. A long, narrow, generally shallow receptacle for holding water or feed for animals.

b. Any of various similar containers for domestic or industrial use, such as kneading or washing.

2. A gutter under the edge of a roof for carrying off rainwater.

3. A long, narrow depression, as between waves or ridges.

4. A low point in a business cycle or on a statistical graph.

5. Meteorology An elongated region of relatively low atmospheric pressure, often associated with a front.

6. Physics A minimum point in a wave or an alternating signal.

[Middle English, from Old English trog; see deru- in Indo-European roots.]

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trough

(trɒf)

1. a narrow open container, esp one in which food or water for animals is put

2. a narrow channel, gutter, or gulley

3. (Physical Geography) a narrow depression either in the land surface, ocean bed, or between two successive waves

4. (Physical Geography) meteorol an elongated area of low pressure, esp an extension of a depression. Compare ridge⁶

5. a single or temporary low point; depression

6. (General Physics) physics the portion of a wave, such as a light wave, in which the amplitude lies below its average value

7. (Economics) economics the lowest point or most depressed stage of the trade cycle

(intr) informal to eat, consume, or take greedily

[Old English trōh; related to Old Saxon, Old Norse trog trough, Dutch trügge ladle]

ˈtroughˌlike adj

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trough

(trɔf, trɒf or, sometimes, trɔθ, trɒθ)

n.

1. a long, narrow, open receptacle, usu. boxlike in shape, used chiefly to hold water or food for animals.

2. any of several similarly shaped receptacles used for various commercial or household purposes.

3. a channel or conduit for conveying water, as a gutter under the eaves of a building.

4. any long depression or hollow.

5. a long, wide, and deep depression in the ocean floor having gently sloping sides, wider and shallower than a trench.

6. an elongated area of relatively low barometric pressure.

7. the lowest point, esp. in an economic cycle.

[before 900; Middle English; Old English trōh, c. Old Frisian, Old Saxon, Old Norse trog, Old High German troc]

trough

(trôf)

The lowest part of a wave. See more at wave.

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trough

An elongated area of low pressure between two areas of high pressure.

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Noun	1.	trough - a narrow depression (as in the earth or between ocean waves or in the ocean bed) natural depression, depression - a sunken or depressed geological formation swale - a low area (especially a marshy area between ridges)
	2.	trough - a channel along the eaves or on the roof; collects and carries away rainwater gutter channel - a passage for water (or other fluids) to flow through; "the fields were crossed with irrigation channels"; "gutters carried off the rainwater into a series of channels under the street" slideway, sloping trough, chute, slide - sloping channel through which things can descend cullis - a gutter in a roof gable roof, saddle roof, saddleback roof, saddleback - a double sloping roof with a ridge and gables at each end
	3.	trough - a concave shape with an open top bowl concave shape, concavity, incurvation, incurvature - a shape that curves or bends inward
	4.	trough - a treasury for government funds public treasury, till exchequer, treasury - the funds of a government or institution or individual
	5.	trough - a long narrow shallow receptacle receptacle - a container that is used to put or keep things in cradle, rocker - a trough that can be rocked back and forth; used by gold miners to shake auriferous earth in water in order to separate the gold
	6.	trough - a container (usually in a barn or stable) from which cattle or horses feed manger bunk, feed bunk - a long trough for feeding cattle container - any object that can be used to hold things (especially a large metal boxlike object of standardized dimensions that can be loaded from one form of transport to another)

trough

noun manger, crib, water trough The old stone cattle trough still sits by the entrance.

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Translations

جُرْنحَوْض لِعَلَف الماشِيَهغَوْرنِطاق طولي من الضَّغْط المُنْخَفِض

korytoúdolídeprese

trugbølgedalkarlavtryksområderende

Trog Wellental Tief

σκάφη

abrevadero

kaukalo

auge dépression abreuvoir

korito

vályúhullámvölgylégnyomási teknõ

lágòrÿstisvæîi, lægîöldudalurtrog

trogolo abbeveratoio cavo depressione mastello

かいば桶

여물통

lovysžemo slėgio zona

ieplakasilezema spiediena josla

trog

trau bølgedal lavtrykksbelte renne

koryto niż dolina

bebedouro

корыто лохань канава

brázda nízkeho tlaku

korito

tråg

รางอาหารหรือน้ำสำหรับสัตว์

yalakyemlikalçak basınç alanıiki dalga arası çukuru

máng ăn

低压槽槽波谷饲料槽

trough

[trɒf] N

1. (= depression) → depresión f, hoyo m; (between waves, on graph) → seno m; (= channel) → canal m (fig) → parte f baja, punto m más bajo
see also peak A3

2. (Met) → zona f de bajas presiones

3. (for animals) (= feeding trough) → comedero m, pesebre m; (= drinking trough) → abrevadero m, bebedero m; (= kneading trough) → artesa f

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trough

[ˈtrɒf] n

(also drinking trough) → abreuvoir m

(also feeding trough) → auge f

(= low area between waves) → creux m

(= low point) (in trade, business, consumption, evolution) → creux m
to be in a trough [person, industry, market] → être au creux de la vague

(METEOROLOGY) trough of low pressure → dépression f

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trough

(= container) → Trog m; drinking trough → Wassertrog m

(= depression) → Furche f, → Rille f; (between waves, on graph) → Tal nt; (Met) → Trog m; trough of depression → Tiefdrucktrog m

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trough

[trɒf] n

a. (also feeding trough) → mangiatoia, trogolo (also drinking trough) → abbeveratoio; (channel) → canale m

b. (between waves) → cavo; (on graph) → punto più basso (Met) trough of low pressure → area di bassa pressione, depressione f

trough

(trof) noun

1. a long, low, open container for animals' food or water. a drinking-trough for the cattle.

2. a low part between two waves (in the sea etc). The boat went down into a trough.

3. an area of low pressure in the atmosphere, usually causing rain.

trough

→ جُرْن koryto trug Trog σκάφη abrevadero kaukalo abreuvoir korito trogolo かいば桶 여물통 trog trau koryto bebedouro корыто tråg รางอาหารหรือน้ำสำหรับสัตว์ yalak máng ăn 槽

trough

n. canal o zanja.

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where are your four kettles, and your troughs, and your iron coolers?

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This bottom, inclined at an angle of 25 degrees, allowed the metal to flow into the receiving troughs; and the 1,200 converging trenches carried the molten metal down to the central well.

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In front of the house was a great stone trough, so she said to the child: 'Take the pail, Red-Cap; I made some sausages yesterday, so carry the water in which I boiled them to the trough.' Red-Cap carried until the great trough was quite full.

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Don Quixote promised to follow his advice scrupulously, and it was arranged forthwith that he should watch his armour in a large yard at one side of the inn; so, collecting it all together, Don Quixote placed it on a trough that stood by the side of a well, and bracing his buckler on his arm he grasped his lance and began with a stately air to march up and down in front of the trough, and as he began his march night began to fall.

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As we drifted closer the boat would rise on a wave while we sank in the trough, till almost straight above me I could see the heads of the three men craned overside and looking down.

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A multitude of questions and answers having passed between the parties, much to the satisfaction of those who propose them, the god is put tenderly to bed in the trough, and the whole company unite in a long chant, led off by Kolory.

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Then there came up through the floor of the room a three-headed Giant with a trough full of meat, who saluted her as his sister and set down the trough before her.

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Horseshoes, swords, and the heads of halberds, or bills, are often found there ; one place is called the ``Danes' well,'' another the ``Battle flats.'' From a tradition that the weapon with which the Norwegian champion was slain, resembled a pear, or, as others say, that the trough or boat in which the soldier floated under the bridge to strike the blow, had such a shape, the country people usually begin a great market, which is held at Stamford, with an entertainment called the Pear-pie feast, which after all may be a corruption of the Spear-pie feast.

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It was put into a large wooden tray or trough, and set down upon the ground.

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The infant is laid in a wooden trough, by way of cradle.

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She ordered the joiner to make a wooden trough of three hundred feet long, fifty broad, and eight deep; which, being well pitched, to prevent leaking, was placed on the floor, along the wall, in an outer room of the palace.

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But merchants and traders are cowardly rulers at best; they grunt and grub all their days in the trough of money-getting, and I have swung back to aristocracy, if you please.

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