Trough

Quick meaning: Trough is a noun meaning A long, narrow container, open on top, for feeding or watering animals.

Meaning

A long, narrow container, open on top, for feeding or watering animals.

More Meanings

1. Any similarly shaped container.
2. A short, narrow canal designed to hold water until it drains or evaporates.
3. (colloquial) An undivided metal urinal (plumbing fixture)
4. (Canada) A gutter under the eaves of a building; an eaves trough.
5. A long, narrow depression between waves or ridges; the low portion of a wave cycle.
6. (economics) A low turning point or a local minimum of a business cycle.
7. (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.

Example Sentences

He troughed his way through three meat pies.

The troughs were filled with leaves and needed clearing.

One of Harriet's chores was to slop the pigs' trough each morning and evening.

The neurologist pointed to a troubling trough in the pattern of his brain-waves.

Word Forms

• troughs
• troughing
• troughed

Synonyms for trough

Depending on context, synonyms include manger, till, gutter, bowl, basin.

Antonyms for trough

Common opposites include peak.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include gutter, basin, manger, bowl, till, pit.

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