Definition of trough Trough
/tɹÉĖf/ - [trof] - trough
We found 29 definitions of trough from 9 different sources.
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What does trough mean?
WordNet
NounPlural: troughs |
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| trough - a long narrow shallow receptacle | ||
| receptacle a container that is used to put or keep things in | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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" | ||
| gable roof, saddle roof, saddleback roof, saddleback a double sloping roof with a ridge and gables at each end | ||
| slideway, sloping trough, chute, slide sloping channel through which things can descend | ||
| trough - a container (usually in a barn or stable) from which cattle or horses feed | ||
| manger | ||
| 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 - a concave shape with an open top | ||
| bowl | ||
| trough - a treasury for government funds | ||
| public treasury, till | ||
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Wiktionary 
- trough (Noun)
A long, narrow container, open on top, for feeding or watering animals. - trough (Noun)
Any similarly shaped container. - trough (Noun)
A rectangular container used for washing or rinsing clothes. - trough (Noun)
Ernest threw his paint brushes into a kind of trough he had fashioned from sheet metal that he kept in the sink. - trough (Noun)
A short, narrow canal designed to hold water until it drains or evaporates. - trough (Noun)
A gutter under the eaves of a building; an eaves trough . - trough (Noun)
A channel for conveying water or other farm liquids such as milk from place to place by gravity; any āUā or āVā cross-sectioned irrigation channel. - trough (Noun)
A long, narrow depression between waves or ridges; the low portion of a wave cycle. - trough (Noun)
A linear atmospheric depression associated with a weather front. - trough (Verb)
To eat in a vulgar style, as if eating from a trough.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary š
- trough (n.)
A long, hollow vessel, generally for holding water or other liquid, especially one formed by excavating a log longitudinally on one side; a long tray; also, a wooden channel for conveying water, as to a mill wheel. - trough (n.)
Any channel, receptacle, or depression, of a long and narrow shape; as, trough between two ridges, etc.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ī©
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trough
A long, narrow container, open on top, for feeding or watering animals. -
trough
A long, narrow container, open on top. -
trough
A short, narrow canal designed to hold water until it drains or evaporates. -
trough
A long, narrow depression between waves or ridges. -
trough
A linear atmospheric depression associated with a weather front. -
trough
A water container for animals to drink from.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary š
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trough
trof, n. a long, hollow vessel for water or other liquid: a long tray: a long narrow channel: a concavity or hollow. [A.S. trog; Ger. trog.]
Marine DictionaryUniversal Dictionary of the Marine āļø
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trough
a name given to the hollow, or interval between two high waves, which resembles a broad and deep trench perpetually fluctuating. As the setting of the sea is always produced by the wind, it is evident that the waves, and consequently the trough or hollow space between them, will be at right angles with the direction of the wind. Hence a ship rolls heaviest when she lies in the trough of the sea.
Sailor's Word-BookThe Sailor's Word-Book āµ
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trough
[from the Anglo-Saxon troh]. A small boat broad at both ends. Also, the hollow or interval between two waves, which resembles a broad and deep trench perpetually fluctuating. As the set of the sea is produced by the wind, the waves and the trough are at right angles with it; hence a ship rolls heaviest when she is in the trough of the sea.
Wikipedia 
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meteorology
A trough is an elongated area of comparatively low atmospheric pressure, usually in association with weather fronts.
Convective cells may form in the surrounding area of troughs and give birth to a tropical cyclone. Some tropical or subtropical areas, such as the Philippines or south China are greatly affected by convection cells along a trough. In the mid-latitude westerlies, troughs and ridges often exchange with each other, especially when upper-level winds are in a high-amplitude pattern. For a trough in the westerlies, the region just west of the trough axis is typically an area of convergent winds and descending air - and hence high pressure - while the region just east of the trough axis is an area of fast, divergent winds and low pressure. Tropical waves are a type of trough in easterly currents, a cyclonic northward deflection of the trade winds.
Part of speech
š¤- trough, noun, singular of troughs.
