trough
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Danh từ
noun- 1.
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.
- 2.
Any similarly shaped container.
- 3.
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.
- 4.
(colloquial)An undivided metal urinal (plumbing fixture)
- 5.
(Canada)A gutter under the eaves of a building; an eaves trough.
The troughs were filled with leaves and needed clearing.
- 6.
(Australia, New Zealand)(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.
- 7.
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.
- 8.
(economics) A low turning point or a local minimum of a business cycle.
- 9.
(meteorology) A linear atmospheric depression associated with a weather front.
Động từ
verb- 1.
To eat in a vulgar style, as if from a trough.
He troughed his way through three meat pies.
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dóru From Middle English trogh, from Old English troh, trog, from *trog, from Proto-Germanic *trugą, *trugaz, from Proto-Indo-European *drukós, enlargement of *dóru (tree).