trough
trough
Definition
trough (trôf, träf)
noun
- a long, narrow, open container of wood, stone, etc. for holding water or food for animals
- any similarly shaped vessel, as one for kneading or washing something
- a channel or gutter, esp. one under the eaves of a building, for carrying off rainwater
- a long, narrow hollow or depression, as between waves
- a low in any cycle, esp. in an economic cycle
- a long, narrow area of low barometric pressure
Etymology: ME < OE trog, akin to Ger < IE *druk- < base *deru-, tree: basic sense, “hollowed wooden object”
trough
Synonyms
trough
n.
trough Finance Definition
The
period when a bear market is ending and prices begin to rise. On a price chart,
a trough looks like the bottom half of the letter o.
trough
Usage Examples
Preposition: of
- wave: Down in the trough of the wave, then up again on the crest; that was Paul's experience.
- flower: Eventually I found him over a bay window of the shop in a trough of flowers trying to climb up.
Converse of object
- knead: Your basket and your kneading trough will be blessed.
- feed: On the green there is a large ancient reservoir feeding a trough.
- fill: In each half was a stone trough filled with flowing water from the spring.
- install: Our aim is to install the trough in the later stages of road construction in the later part of 2003.
Adjective modifier
- thundery: Thundery troughs over France gave a lot of storms there during the day.
- showery: Showery troughs were lying over Ireland and we had a shower about 10 GMT.
- parabolic: Companies such as Solar Millenium AG, headquartered in Erlangen, Germany, now market solar chimney power plants, along with parabolic troughs.
- glacial: Landscape Key Characteristics Broad flat glacial trough between the hills of west Fermanagh.
- frontal: For the next four days a series of frontal troughs associated with a sequence of Atlantic lows brought unsettled conditions to Shetland.
- alpine: Thyme Walk and Alpine Trough Garden The thyme gives a fragrance as you step on it to pass by the alpine troughs.
Modifies a noun
- plasma: Nonetheless, the majority had adequate lopinavir trough plasma levels ( 95 % ) in the third trimester.
- concentration: In well controlled add-on trials, no correlation has been demonstrated between trough plasma concentrations of topiramate and its clinical efficacy.
Noun used with modifier
- aqueduct: The bottom of the aqueduct trough has been lined with concrete.
- feeding: Born in a manger, an animals ' feeding trough, publicly crucified thirty years later!
- granite: The old granite water trough still stands on the lawn.
- drinking: Then keeping close to the wall on the left cross another stile by a cattle drinking trough.
- cattle: Fields which are grazed are usually provided with cattle troughs.
- horse: Many of the people prefer to go further down the hill to a common horse trough, which is on the public road.
trough Quotes
Heap high the groaning platter with pink fillets, sucking pig and thick gammon, celestial chef. Be generous with the crackling. Let your hand slip with the gravy trough, dispensing plenty.
An accountof the decadence occupying the trough between the two world wars introduces us to a moronic inferno of insipidityand decay.
Browse dictionary entries near trough
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- troubleshooter
- troublemaker
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- troubadour
- trou-de-loup
- trotyl
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- trounce
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- trouper
- troupial
- trousers
- trousseau
- trout
- trout lily
- trout-perch
- trouvère
