Word Finder - trough

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A long, narrow container, open on top, for feeding or watering animals.

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One of Hank's chores was to slop the pigs' trough each morning and evening.

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Any similarly shaped container.

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A short, narrow canal designed to hold water until it drains or evaporates.

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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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A gutter under the eaves of a building; an eaves trough.

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The troughs were filled with leaves and needed clearing.

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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.

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A long, narrow depression between waves or ridges; the low portion of a wave cycle.

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The buoy bobbed between the crests and troughs of the waves moving across the bay.

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A linear atmospheric depression associated with a weather front.

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

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he troughed his way through three meat pies.

In the main it is a broad trough, wider towards the north than towards the south, and unsymmetrical, Hudson Bay occupying much of its north-eastern part, while to the west broad plains rise gradually to the foot-hills of the Rocky Mountains, the eastern member of the Cordillera which follows the Pacific coast of America.

The West Atlantic Trough lying on the western side of the Central Rise widens in the north into the North American Basin, and its, greatest depths appears to be in the Porto Rico Trench, where in 1882 Capt.

But next morning I went to the trough, and lo, he had disappeared!

Alex had broken the ice off the top of the water trough by the time she got there and every stall was filled with fresh hay.

Iron ships' plates have recently been coated with copper in sections (to prevent the adhesion of barnacles), by building up a temporary trough against the side of the ship, making the thoroughly cleansed plate act both as cathode and as one side of the trough.

The Daniell type consists of a teak trough divided into five cells by slate partitions coated with marine glue.

The chain dips below the water, then rises into the furnace and passes down into the other trough on its way out.

The Cape Trough runs northward from this basin.

It occupies the lower portion of the trough between the Adirondacks and the Green Mountains.

I think I forgot to turn the water off when I filled the trough.

Taking the Atlantic as our simplest type, we may say that the surface of an ocean basin resembles that of a mighty trough or syncline, buckled up more or less centrally in a medial ridge, which is bounded by two long and deep marginal hollows, in the cores of which still deeper grooves sink to the profoundest depths.

Water trickles continuously into the trough, and the centrifugal action holds it as an inside lining against the rim, where it slowly evaporates.

She plodded slowly away from her feed trough.

It runs a remarkably straight course westward through a narrow trough from Daolatyar to Obeh, amidst the bleak wind-swept uplands of the highest central elevations in Afghanistan.

They both lost their footing at the top of one wave and tumbled into a valley, bouncing against the rubbery trough.

The wetter off touches the top of the neck of the bottle with a moistened piece of iron and by tapping the blowing iron detaches the bottle and drops it into a wooden trough.

In Mexico and South America, instead of the pan, a wooden dish or trough, known as " batea," is used.

A current of great electromotive force (intensity or voltage) passed through the coil D, induces, by means of the core and frame, a current of enormous quantity (volume or amperage), but very small electromotive force, in the metal in the trough.

It is a long and narrow trough, which is separated from the older rocks of the Ardennes by a great reversed fault, the faille du midi.

She buried a gloved hand in the snow and extracted the half tire that served as a watering trough.

The sun had melted a thin layer of water over the ice in the water trough.

Thus by heating spirits of salt he obtained "marine acid air" (hydrochloric acid gas), and he was able to collect it because he happened to use mercury, instead of water, in his pneumatic trough.

Deep down in the trough of the Chitral river, about midway between its source and its junction with the Kabul at Jalalabad, is.

Probably there is a breakdown of the wave somewhat like the breaking of a water-wave when the crest gains on the next trough.

In the southern half of the trough the folding of the Coal Measures is intense; in the northern half it is much less violent.

The structure is complicated by a thrust-plane which brings a mass of older beds upon the Coal Measures in the middle of the trough.

The depression of the Rhine is a trough lying between two faults or system of faults.

In the Roman period a larger stone was used, with a rectangular slab (96) sliding on it, in which a long trough held the grain and let it slip out below for grinding.

They may be regarded as a long trough of younger rocks let down by parallel dislocations between the older masses to the south and north.

It is a long trough, of nearly semicircular section, the whole bottom being exposed to the firegases.

A.horizontal shaft runs length-ways through the trough, and is provided with stirring blades, arranged in such a manner that they constantly scrape the bottom, so that the salts cannot burn fast upon it, and are at the same time moved forward towards one of the ends of the trough where they are automatically removed by means of a chain of buckets.

The bottom of the trough is covered with mercury.

Thyme Walk and Alpine trough Garden The thyme gives a fragrance as you step on it to pass by the alpine troughs.

The old granite water trough still stands on the lawn.

Then keeping close to the wall on the left cross another stile by a cattle drinking trough.

Many of the people prefer to go further down the hill to a common horse trough, which is on the public road.

Similarly, bituminous underlay can become adhered to the underside of the valley trough after periods of hot weather.

The idea that they would do so without bending the rules or sticking their noses in the trough was utterly unrealistic.

A depression when of great extent is termed a " basin," when it is of a more or less round form with approximatelyequal diameters, a " trough " when it is wide and elongated with gently sloping borders, and a " trench " when narrow and elongated with steeply sloping borders, one of which rises higher than the other.

To the east the whole chain is bounded by a profound trough in the ocean bed, which extends southwestward, east of the Kermadec Islands, towards New Zealand.

The lower end is bent into the shape of a hook, and dips into a pneumatic trough.

In the middle of this trough came an unexpected turn of events which resulted in another windfall in publishing royalties.

Down in the trough of the wave, then up again on the crest; that was Paul 's experience.

Eventually I found him over a bay window of the shop in a trough of flowers trying to climb up.

In each half was a stone trough filled with flowing water from the spring.

Thyme Walk and Alpine Trough Garden The thyme gives a fragrance as you step on it to pass by the alpine troughs.

In well controlled add-on trials, no correlation has been demonstrated between trough plasma concentrations of topiramate and its clinical efficacy.

Born in a manger, an animals ' feeding trough, publicly crucified thirty years later !

A tsunami wave can begin either way, with a crest or with a trough.

Just make a little trough (the package will tell you how deep), sprinkle in the seeds and cover lightly with soil.