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What (who) is trough - definition
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Trough (disambiguation)
trough
n.
1.
Long tray.
2.
Wooden channel.
3.
Channel, depression, furrow, hollow.
Trough
·noun Any channel, receptacle, or depression, of a long and narrow shape; as, trough between two ridges, ·etc.
II. Trough ·add. ·noun The transverse section of a cyclonic area where the barometric pressure, neither rising nor falling, has reached its lowest point.
III. Trough ·noun A long, hollow vessel, generally for holding water or other liquid, especially one formed by excavating a log longitudinally on one side; a long tray; also, a wooden channel for conveying water, as to a mill wheel.
trough
¦ noun
1. a long, narrow open container for animals to eat or drink out of.
a similar container, e.g. one for growing plants.
2. a channel used to convey a liquid.
a long hollow in the earth's surface.
3. an elongated region of low barometric pressure.
4. a hollow between two wave crests in the sea.
5. a region around the minimum on a curve of variation of a quantity.
a point of low activity or achievement.
Origin
OE trog, of Gmc origin; related to tree.
Examples of use of trough
1. Russia‘s dollar–based RTS index is down 500 points peak to trough, or over 25 percent.
2. The maximum individual crest–to–trough wave heights can be reliably obtained.
3. Each horse has a water trough and feed basin made of marble.
4. YOKOSUKA, Japan –– At the far end of a long trough, a bulge of water appears.
5. But today‘s career politicians with their snouts in the trough, resign?