trough

[US]/trɒf/
[UK]/trɔf/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. a container used for feeding animals, holding water, mixing dough, washing ore, or collecting rainwater; a long, narrow, open container for animals to eat or drink from; a narrow depression or channel in the earth's surface.

Phrases & Collocations

pig trough

feeding trough

water trough

wave trough

Example Sentences

As the wave bore down on us, the trough deepened.

The business cycle is a series of peaks and troughs.

learning a language is a series of peaks and troughs .

An eave trough used to convey rainwater from the roof to the downspout.

The key technology and technics,which use Simons electrolyze trough with a falcial anode to synthesize lithium fluoroalkylphosphates,are discussed in this paper.

An anticyclonic eddy near the Nansha Trough,an anticyclonic eddy east of the Nansha Islands and a weak cyclonic eddy near the Nansha Islands occur in winter,and an anticyclonic eddy near t...

Does along the excitation included angle throws the movement to cause the feedertrough to have the vibration, the trough body movement clever trick is the straight line;

Stress shielding effect of the trihedral fix trough plate,trapezoid compression plate and Tianjin compression plate on the long bone measured with the electrical measuring method.

A new image shows possible "megabreccia" along the center of Mars's Coprates Chasma, a major trough in the Valles Marineris canyon system.

Real-world Examples

Don't be ridiculous. Could we get a trough of these, please?

Source: Desperate Housewives (Audio Version) Season 2

It was an enormous bottomless trough in which the hogs could swill and wallow.

Source: Gone with the Wind

That's the equivalent of a 6-storey building in a city directly facing the Nankai trough.

Source: Environment and Science

The lamp still stood upon the floor where I had placed it when examining the trough.

Source: The Engineer's Thumb Case of Sherlock Holmes

At this point, Templeton showed his nose from his hiding place under Wilbur's trough.

Source: Charlotte's Web

And the Antarctic trough apparently has no ocean water.

Source: CNN Listening January 2020 Collection

You've got all these ridges, troughs.

Source: Human Planet

Wilbur stood in the trough, drooling with hunger.

Source: Charlotte's Web

Wilbur rushed out, ate everything in a hurry, and licked the trough.

Source: Charlotte's Web

Hungrily they gathered round, pushing and scrambling like swine about the trough.

Source: Brave New World

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