English-Thai Dictionary

trough

N รางน้ำ  rang-nam

 

trough

SL กิน  kin

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

TROUGH

n.trauf. 1. A vessel hollow longitudinally, or a large log or piece of timber excavated longitudinally on the upper side; used for various purposes.
2. A tray. [This is the same word dialectically altered.]
3. A canoe; the rude boat of uncivilized men.
4. The channel that conveys water, as in mills.
The trough of the sea, the hollow between waves.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

TROUGH

Trough, n. Etym: [OE. trough, trogh, AS. trog, troh; akin to D., G.,& Icel. trog, Sw. tråg, Dan. trug; probably originally meaning, made of wood, and akin to E. tree. Tree, and cf. Trug. ]

 

1. A long, hollow vessel, generally for holding water or other liquid, especially one formed by excavating a log longitudinally on one side; a long tray; also, a wooden channel for conveying water, as to a mill wheel.

 

2. Any channel, receptacle, or depression, of a long and narrow shape; as, trough between two ridges, etc. Trough gutter (Arch. ), a rectangular or V-shaped gutter, usually hung below the eaves of a house. -- Trough of the sea, the depression between two waves.

 

TROUGH-SHELL

TROUGH-SHELL Trough "-shell `, n. (Zoöl.)

 

Defn: Any bivalve shell of the genus Mactra. See Mactra.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

trough

trough |trôf trɔf | ▶noun a long, narrow open container for animals to eat or drink out of: a water trough. • a container of a similar shape used for a purpose such as growing plants or mixing chemicals. • a channel used to convey a liquid. • a long hollow in the earth's surface: a vast glacial trough. • an elongated region of low atmospheric pressure. • a hollow between two wave crests in the sea. • Mathematics a region around the minimum on a curve of variation of a quantity. • a point of low activity, achievement, or satisfaction: learning a language is a series of peaks and troughs. ORIGIN Old English trog, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch trog and German Trog, also to tree .

 

trough shell

trough shell ▶noun a burrowing marine bivalve mollusk with a thin, smooth shell. [Family Mactridae: Spisula and other genera. ]

 

Oxford Dictionary

trough

trough |trɒf | ▶noun 1 a long, narrow open container for animals to eat or drink out of: a water trough. • a container of a similar shape used for a purpose such as growing plants. 2 a channel used to convey a liquid. • a long hollow in the earth's surface: a vast glacial trough. • a hollow between two wave crests in the sea. 3 an elongated region of low barometric pressure. 4 a point of low activity or achievement: seasonal peaks and troughs in the demand for goods and services. • Mathematics a region around the minimum on a curve of variation of a quantity. ▶verb [ no obj. ] informal eat greedily. ORIGIN Old English trog, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch trog and German Trog, also to tree .

 

trough shell

trough shell ▶noun a burrowing marine bivalve mollusc with a thin smooth shell. ●Family Mactridae: Spisula and other genera.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

trough

trough noun 1 a large feeding trough: manger, feeder, bunk, rack, crib, feed box; waterer. 2 a thirty-foot trough: channel, conduit, trench, ditch, gully, drain, culvert, cut, flume, gutter; rain gutter.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

trough

trough noun 1 a large feeding trough: manger, feeding container, feedbox, feeder, fodder rack, crib. 2 a thirty-yard trough: channel, conduit, trench, ditch, gully, drain, culvert, cut, flume, gutter, furrow, groove, depression.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

trough

trough /trɔːf |trɔf / (! -oughは /ɔːf |ɔf /) 名詞 C 1 (家畜用の細長い )飼い葉おけ, 水おけ .2 洗いおけ ; (パン屋の )こね鉢 .3 雨どい .4 (波と波の間の )くぼみ, 谷 .5 〘気象 〙気圧の谷 .6 (景気などの )谷, 底 .