trough
Bedeutung
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- A long, narrow container, open on top, for feeding or watering animals.
- Any similarly shaped container.
- Any similarly shaped container.
- A short, narrow canal designed to hold water until it drains or evaporates.
- (colloquial) An undivided metal urinal (plumbing fixture)
- A gutter under the eaves of a building; an eaves trough.
- 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.
- A long, narrow depression between waves or ridges; the low portion of a wave cycle.
- A low turning point or a local minimum of a business cycle.
- A linear atmospheric depression associated with a weather front.
Frequenz
Ausgesprochen als (IPA)
/tɹɒf/
Etymologie
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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