trough

«trough» in Mova's school dictionary: a long narrow open box that holds water or food for farm… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a trough, troughs)

meaning for a pupil

1) A trough is a long narrow open box that holds water or food for farm animals like pigs, cows or horses. tree →

2) (science) A trough is the low point between two waves, or between two high points on a graph. tree →

3) (weather) A trough is a long area of low air pressure, which often brings rain. tree →

4) A trough is a low or bad time, after a good one, as in «peaks and troughs». tree →

5) (informal) To have your snout in the trough means to take more money or benefits than you should. tree →

sense in the lessons

On the farm, animals drink from a trough. In science lessons about waves (sound, light, water), the crest is the top and the trough is the bottom; the height from the middle to the crest is the amplitude. On line graphs, the lowest dips are troughs. Phrases: «peaks and troughs», «water trough», «feeding trough».

examples

• The pigs pushed their noses into the trough. tree →
• The horse drank from the stone trough by the gate. tree →
• The boat sank into the trough between two huge waves. tree →
• Label the crest and the trough on your wave diagram. tree →
• The graph shows peaks in summer and troughs in winter. tree →
• A trough of low pressure will bring rain tomorrow. tree →
• Business has its peaks and troughs. tree →
• The Worm drew nearer and nearer, till at last it came up to the trough. tree →

note

Said «troff» (rhymes with off), not «trow» or «true». Plural: troughs. Opposite of trough on a wave is «crest» (or «peak»). Spelling trap: ough is said many ways — tough, through, though, trough, bough.

In the corpora

• Jesus was laid in a manger, which is an animal feeding trough.
• And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading-troughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders.
• Blessed shall be thy basket and thy kneading-trough.
• Cursed shall be thy basket and thy kneading-trough.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «trough» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.