Noun: trough
| Singular | trough |
| Plural | troughs |
Sample Sentences
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One of Harriet's chores was to slop the pigs' trough each morning and evening.
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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. [1961 November, “Talking of Trains: The North Eastern's new rail-mounted piling unit”, in Trains Illustrated, page 646:]
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It just clips on the front of the stage without any special trough, has no great power and occupies only one dimmer, […] [1976, Frederick Bentham, The art of stage lighting, page 233:]
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Ernest threw his paint brushes into a kind of trough he had fashioned from sheet metal that he kept in the sink.
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There was a small trough that the sump pump emptied into; it was filled with mosquito larvae.
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The troughs were filled with leaves and needed clearing.
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The buoy bobbed between the crests and troughs of the waves moving across the bay.
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The neurologist pointed to a troubling trough in the pattern of his brain-waves.
Nouns inflected like trough
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. PIE word
2. *dóru
3. 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”).
4. 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. See: Middle English Nouns '
trogh', Dutch Nouns '
trog', German Nouns '
Trog', Danish Nouns '
trug', Swedish Nouns '
tråg'.
Verbs referencing "trough"
German Nouns
Trog, Dutch Nouns
trog, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
trau, English Nouns
trogue, Swedish Nouns
tråg.