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noun
1.
a long, narrow, open receptacle, usually boxlike in shape, used chiefly to hold water or food for animals.
2.
any of several similarly shaped receptacles used for various commercial or household purposes.
3.
a channel or conduit for conveying water, as a gutter under the eaves of a building for carrying away rain water.
4.
any long depression or hollow, as between two ridges or waves.
5.
EXPANDOceanography. a long, wide, and deep depression in the ocean floor having gently sloping sides, wider and shallower than a trench. Compare trench (def. 4).
6.
Meteorology. an elongated area of relatively low pressure.
7.
COLLAPSEthe lowest point, especially in an economic cycle.
Origin:
before 900; Middle English; Old English trōh; cognate with Dutch, German, Old Norse trog
before 900; Middle English; Old English trōh; cognate with Dutch, German, Old Norse trog
Related forms
trough·like, adjective
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Trough
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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World English Dictionary
| trough (trɒf) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a narrow open container, esp one in which food or water for animals is put |
| 2. | a narrow channel, gutter, or gulley |
| 3. | a narrow depression either in the land surface, ocean bed, or between two successive waves |
| 4. | meteorol Compare ridge an elongated area of low pressure, esp an extension of a depression |
| 5. | a single or temporary low point; depression |
| 6. | physics the portion of a wave, such as a light wave, in which the amplitude lies below its average value |
| 7. | economics the lowest point or most depressed stage of the trade cycle |
| —vb | |
| 8. | informal (intr) to eat, consume, or take greedily |
| [Old English trōh; related to Old Saxon, Old Norse trog trough, Dutch trügge ladle] | |
| 'troughlike | |
| —adj | |
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Word Origin & History
trough
O.E. trog, from P.Gmc. *trugoz (cf. O.Fris., O.S., O.N. trog, M.Du. troch, Du. trog, O.H.G. troc, Ger. trog), perhaps ultimately from PIE *drukos, from base *dru- "wood, tree" (see tree). Originally pronounced in Eng. with a hard -gh- (as in Scottish loch); pronunciation shifted
EXPANDto -f-, but spelling remained.
COLLAPSE
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Science Dictionary
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