Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun trough

6 senses of trough

Sense 1
trough -- (a narrow depression (as in the earth or between ocean waves or in the ocean bed))
       => natural depression, depression -- (a sunken or depressed geological formation)

Sense 2
gutter, trough -- (a channel along the eaves or on the roof; collects and carries away rainwater)
       => channel -- (a passage for water (or other fluids) to flow through; "the fields were crossed with irrigation channels"; "gutters carried off the rainwater into a series of channels under the street")

Sense 3
bowl, trough -- (a concave shape with an open top)
       => concave shape, concavity, incurvation, incurvature -- (a shape that curves or bends inward)

Sense 4
public treasury, trough, till -- (a treasury for government funds)
       => treasury, exchequer -- (the funds of a government or institution or individual)

Sense 5
trough -- (a long narrow shallow receptacle)
       => receptacle -- (a container that is used to put or keep things in)

Sense 6
manger, trough -- (a container (usually in a barn or stable) from which cattle or horses feed)
       => 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))