| 单词 | trough |
| 释义 | trough (once / 1367 pages) 1n 2n If you live on a farm, you already know that a trough is what animals eat out of. The word actually refers to the shape of the container, and can mean anything that is low and hollowed out––a math curve, a depression in the ground. In the olden days, people, like animals, ate from troughs. Gradually, we got fancy enough to divide our food between bowls and plates, but there is some lingering connection between the idea of trough and rough, peasant living. WORD FAMILYtrough: troughs USAGE EXAMPLESThe Republican governor attacked the corporate owners of most of the state’s newspapers as “special interests feeding like pigs at the government trough.” Washington Times(Dec 22, 2016) A manger is a trough used to feed animals. Washington Post(Dec 16, 2016) So any heat, whether in the deepest troughs or near the surface, contributes to the deflection. Economist(Dec 15, 2016) 1 1n a long narrow shallow receptacle Hypo|Hyper cradle, rocker a trough that can be rocked back and forth; used by gold miners to shake auriferous earth in water in order to separate the gold receptacle a container that is used to put or keep things in 2n a concave shape with an open top Syn|Hyper bowl concave shape, concavity, incurvation, incurvature a shape that curves or bends inward 3n a container (usually in a barn or stable) from which cattle or horses feed Syn|Hypo|Hyper manger bunk, feed bunk a long trough for feeding cattle container any object that can be used to hold things (especially a large metal boxlike object of standardized dimensions that can be loaded from one form of transport to another) 4n a channel along the eaves or on the roof; collects and carries away rainwater Syn|Hypo|Hyper gutter chute, slide, slideway, sloping trough sloping channel through which things can descend cullisa gutter in a roof coal chutea chute for coal runwaya chute down which logs can slide water chutechute with flowing water down which toboggans and inner tubes and people slide into a pool channel a passage for water (or other fluids) to flow through 5n a narrow depression (as in the earth or between ocean waves or in the ocean bed) 2Hypo|Hyper swale a low area (especially a marshy area between ridges) depression, natural depression a sunken or depressed geological formation n a treasury for government funds Syn|Hyper public treasury, till exchequer, treasury the funds of a government or institution or individual |
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