OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 20168

trough

/tɹɒf/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
abrevadero • batea • comedero • pesebre
A long, narrow container, open on top, for feeding or watering animals.
One of Harriet's chores was to slop the pigs' trough each morning and evening.
canal
A short, narrow canal designed to hold water until it drains or evaporates.
There was a small trough that the sump pump emptied into; it was filled with mosquito larvae.
canaleta
A gutter under the eaves of a building; an eaves trough.
The troughs were filled with leaves and needed clearing.
valle
A long, narrow depression between waves or ridges; the low portion of a wave cycle.
The buoy bobbed between the crests and troughs of the waves moving across the bay.
The neurologist pointed to a troubling trough in the pattern of his brain-waves.
vaguada
A linear atmospheric depression associated with a weather front.
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