Definizione monolingua

trough

trough (third-person singular simple present troughs, present participle troughing, simple past and past participle troughed)

1. To eat in a vulgar style, as if eating from a trough

   he troughed his way through 3 meat pies.

trough (plural troughs)

1. A long, narrow container, open on top, for feeding or watering animals.

   One of Hanks chores was to slop the pigs trough each morning and evening.

2. Any similarly shaped container.

   Ernest threw his paint brushes into a kind of trough he had fashioned from sheet metal that he kept in the sink.

3. (Canada) A gutter under the eaves of a building; an eaves trough.

   The troughs were filled with leaves and needed cleaning.

4. 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.

5. A long, narrow depression between waves or ridges.

   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.

6. (meteorology) A linear atmospheric depression associated with a weather front.
7. (Australian, New Zealand) A rectangular container used for washing clothes, a channel for conveying water or other farm liquids (such as milk) from place to place by gravity, or any general U or V shaped channel conveying water for irrigation purposes.

Definizione dizionario trough

	trogolo
	A long, narrow, open container for feeding animals

canale

depressione

fossa

mangiatoia

mastello

per mezzo di ciò

saccatura

tinozza

Altri significati:

A linear atmospheric depression associated with a weather front

A long, narrow container open at the top

To eat in a vulgar style, as if eating from a trough

(meteorology) A linear atmospheric depression associated with a weather front.

A short, narrow canal designed to hold water until it drains or evaporates.

A long, narrow depression between waves or ridges.

(Canadian) A gutter under the eaves of a building; eaves trough.

(Australia, New Zealand) A rectangular container used for washing clothes, a channel for conveying water or other farm liquids (such as milk) from place to place by gravity, or any general 'U' or 'V' shaped channel conveying water for irrigation purposes.

A gutter under the eaves of a building

A long, narrow depression between waves or ridges

Any similarly shaped container.

Short, narrow drainage canal

A long, narrow container, open on top, for feeding or watering animals.