trough

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /tɹɒf/    美 /tɹɔθ/|/tɹɑθ/|/tɹɔf/

英文释义

名词 n.
  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.
    — Now, covered concrete troughs to house the cables are laid parallel with the railway lines, cheapening maintenance because of improved accessibility for inspection and repair.
  3. Any similarly shaped container.; A rectangular container used for washing or rinsing clothes. Australia,New-Zealand
    — Ernest threw his paint brushes into a kind of trough he had fashioned from sheet metal that he kept in the sink.
  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. An undivided metal urinal (plumbing fixture) colloquial
  6. A gutter under the eaves of a building; an eaves trough. Canada
    — The troughs were filled with leaves and needed clearing.
  7. 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. Australia,New-Zealand
  8. 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.
  9. A low turning point or a local minimum of a business cycle.
  10. A linear atmospheric depression associated with a weather front.
动词 v.
  1. To eat in a vulgar style, as if from a trough.
    — He troughed his way through three meat pies.

词形变化

troughs plural troughs present,singular,third-person troughing participle,present troughed participle,past troughed past

词汇关系

近义词
manger
衍生词
book trough eavestrough glacial trough Gunn-Peterson trough kneading trough Langmuir-Blodgett trough LB trough pentrough pneumatic trough slake trough Sylhet Trough trougher troughful trough lake troughless troughlike trough lolly trough-shell trough shell trough valley troughway troughwise troughy washtrough water trough wine trough winetrough

词源

词源 1
PIE word
*dóru
From Middle English trogh, from Old English troh, trog (“a trough, tub, basin, vessel for containing liquids or other materials”), from Proto-West Germanic *trog, from Proto-Germanic *trugą, *trugaz, from Proto-Indo-European *drukós, enlargement of *dóru (“tree”).
See also West Frisian trôch, Dutch trog, German Trog, Danish trug, Swedish tråg; also Middle Irish drochta (“wooden basin”), Old Armenian տարգալ (targal, “ladle, spoon”). More at tree.
词源 2
PIE word
*dóru
From Middle English trogh, from Old English troh, trog (“a trough, tub, basin, vessel for containing liquids or other materials”), from Proto-West Germanic *trog, from Proto-Germanic *trugą, *trugaz, from Proto-Indo-European *drukós, enlargement of *dóru (“tree”).
See also West Frisian trôch, Dutch trog, German Trog, Danish trug, Swedish tråg; also Middle Irish drochta (“wooden basin”), Old Armenian տարգալ (targal, “ladle, spoon”). More at tree.
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