trough
IPA: trˈɔf
noun
- A long, narrow container, open on top, for feeding or watering animals.
- Any similarly shaped container.
- (Australia, New Zealand) A rectangular container used for washing or rinsing clothes.
- A short, narrow canal designed to hold water until it drains or evaporates.
- (colloquial) An undivided metal urinal (plumbing fixture)
- (Canada) A gutter under the eaves of a building; an eaves trough.
- (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.
- (economics) A low turning point or a local minimum of a business cycle.
- (meteorology) A linear atmospheric depression associated with a weather front.
verb
- To eat in a vulgar style, as if from a trough.
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Examples of "trough" in Sentences
- He says we jostle at the same trough.
- A wedge member compresses the dross in the trough.
- The width of the troughs varies from small to big.
- The towpath is mounted above the water in the trough.
- The far edge of the trough is raised over a triangular fillet.
- The inner ridge and trough zone surrounds the central palimpsest.
- Caleb: What level of the government trough is your snout stuckin?
- The trough is parabolic in one direction and straight in the other.
- The knife blade is the edge at the upper end of the trough of water.
- The first roller is partially immersed in liquid adhesive in the trough.
- The liner is replaceable and greatly increases the wear life of the trough.
- Every time I go home to visit family a trip (or 2) to the trough is a must.
- Government filling its trough is what these kinds of regulations are really about.
- Especially when the trough is full of “legitimately” scoffable fodder for the taking.
- Once their time at the trough is done they will then be dispensed with and put on the drip feed of a fat pension.
- We're expecting what we call a trough in the upper atmosphere to take this off to the right and take a sharp turn toward Florida.
- The case for a massive boost to kick demand out of its trough is overwhelming, even if it postpones the moment of budgetary balance.
- That's why I think people opposed to that, and opposed to devolution when the status quo has served us so ill, are backward, regressive, often ill-intentioned and probably have an interest (snout in trough - wise) in keeping the current system in view of its long term failure,.