trough

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

1. A long, narrow container, open on top, for feeding or watering animals.
2. Any similarly shaped container.
3. (Australia, New-Zealand) Any similarly shaped container.
4. A short, narrow canal designed to hold water until it drains or evaporates.
5. (colloquial) An undivided metal urinal (plumbing fixture)
6. (Canada) A gutter under the eaves of a building; an eaves trough.
7. (Australia, New-Zealand) 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.
8. A long, narrow depression between waves or ridges; the low portion of a wave cycle.
9. A low turning point or a local minimum of a business cycle.
10. A linear atmospheric depression associated with a weather front.

Verb

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

Concepts

abreuvoir

auge

creux

mangeoire

écuelle

fossé

gouttière

minimum

pétrin

au travers

crèche

en métal

en travers

étiage

godet

huche à pétrir

maie

point bas

pour cette raison

creux d’une vague

rift

thalweg

sillon sous-marin

à travers

bac

⛴️

chenal

cuve

cuvette

dépression

Opposé de

peak

Synonymes

manger

tub

groove

bowl

gutter

tray

channel

pan

till

ditch

water trough

public treasury

chute

hollow

washtub

furrow

depression

scoop

cup

drain

duct

eaves

feeding trough

flume

gain

hod

hopper

ice

🧊

metal

🤘

nick

penstock

pipeline

pits

pool

pot

raceway

rack

rink

runway

rut

sink

skip

slideway

slot

sluice

spout

strake

sulcus

swimming pool

tank

Traductions

Trog

trog

artesa

eetbak

cocho

drenkbak

trogolo

σκάφη

bak

krib

Mulde

gamela

truogolo

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/tɹɒf/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: trogh

Hérité de ancien anglais: troh

Appartenant à frison occidental: trôch

Appartenant à néerlandais: trog

Appartenant à allemand: Trog

Appartenant à danois: trug

Appartenant à suédois: tråg

Appartenant à moyen irlandais: drochta

Appartenant à Classical Armenian: տարգալ

In summary

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.