Trough

/tɹɒf/

Synonyms for "trough" (268 found)

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Noun(4 words)

adit aerospace aerosphere airair holeair pocketair spaceairspace alveolation alveolus amplitude antinode antrum aqueduct armpit basin billow bore bottombottom glade

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bottoms bowl breaker breakers bump burrow canal canalization canalize carve cavity ceiling chamfer channel chisel chop choppinesschopping seachute comb comber concave concavity conduit corrugate course crack crater crest crimp

Strong matches (80)

crosswind crypt cup cut dado dalede broglie wavedell delve depression diffraction digdig outdike dingle dipdirty waterditch dredge drill

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drive duct eagreeaves troughegresselectromagnetic radiationelectromagnetic waveempty spaceengrave entrance entrenchment excavate excavation exitfavorable windflute fog fold follicle fosse frequencyfrequency bandfrequency spectrumfrontfunnel chestfurrow gap gash gill glen goffer gougegouge outgravity wavegrooveground swellgrove grub guideguided wavegully gutterha haha-hahead windheaveheavy seaheavy swellhigh-pressure area

Noun(9 words)

depressionfeed troughfeeding troughfilling troughflumes gutter gutters hod hods

Verb(1 words)

fill troughs with water

Adjective(1 words)

galvanized trough

Related words (134)

hole hollowhollow shellin phaseincise ingress interference intervale ionosphere jetstream kennel lacuna lift lightlongitudinal wavelop lourlow-pressure arealowerlunar rill

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mechanical wavemine moat nodeout of phaseovercast pass passage passageway peak penstock pentrough periodperiodic wavepit pleat plow pocket popplepunch bowlquarry rabbetradio waveravine ray reinforcement resonanceresonance frequencyriffle rifle ripple rise roll rollerrough waterroughness rut sap scend scoopscoop outscore scrabble scrape scratch seaseismic wavesend shellshock waveshoot shovel sink sinus slit slump socketsound wavesoup space spade strath stratosphere streak striate substratospheresunk fencesurfsurface wavesurge swelltail windtidal boretidal wavetide wavetombtransverse wavetrench tropopause troposphere troughing troughway tsunami tub tunnel turbulence undulation vale valley visibilityvisibility zerovug wadiwater wavewavewave equationwave motionwave numberwavelength wavelet waywhite horseswhitecaps wrinkle

Noun(9 words)

lowlow arealow pointmangerspublic treasuryshute sluice swale till

Adjective(1 words)

plastic trough

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More general

13 entries

channelconcave shapeconcavity containercycle phasedepression exchequergeographic featureincurvation incurvaturenatural depressionreceptacle treasury

More specific

5 entries

feed troughglacial troughrecession troughseasonal troughwater trough

Collocations

5 entries

animal troughfeed troughgeologic troughglacial troughwater trough

Inflections

1 entries

troughs

Derivations

2 entries

troughage troughlike

Sample sentences

17 total sentences available.

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He sits upright, not crouched over his plate like an animal at a feeding trough.

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He put the clothes in the trough.

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He slipped from the roof directly into the trough and drowned.

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The wavelength is the distance from crest to crest, or from trough to trough.

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