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trough

IPA(Pronunciation)

/tɹɒf/

Noun

Australia New-Zealand Canada

A long, narrow container, open on top, for feeding or watering animals. / Any similarly shaped container. / (Australia, New Zealand) A rectangular container used for washing or rinsing clothes.

Japanese Meaning

動物の給餌や給水に使われる、上部が開いた長く狭い容器 / 同様の形状の容器 / （オーストラリア、ニュージーランド）衣類の洗濯やすすぎに用いられる長方形の容器

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The horses clustered around the wooden trough, eagerly lapping up the cool water.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

馬たちは木製の、動物の餌や水を与えるための上が開いた長くて細い容器の周りに集まり、冷たい水を夢中で舐めていた。

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

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

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Sense（2）

Any similarly shaped container.

Sense（3）

(Australia, New Zealand) A rectangular container used for washing or rinsing clothes.

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Sense（4）

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

There was a small trough that the sump pump emptied into; it was filled with mosquito larvae.

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Sense（5）

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

The troughs were filled with leaves and needed clearing.

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Sense（6）

(agriculture, 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.

Sense（7）

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

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

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Sense（8）

(economy) low turning point or a local minimum of a business cycle

Sense（9）

(meteorology) A linear atmospheric depression associated with a weather front.

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