TROUGH Synonyms

• a path over which electrical signals can pass

• a passage for water (or other fluids) to flow through

• a long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process (such as erosion) or by a tool (as e.g. a groove in a phonograph record)

• a deep and relatively narrow body of water (as in a river or a harbor or a strait linking two larger bodies) that allows the best passage for vessels

• (often plural) a means of communication or access

• a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance

• a television station and its programs

• a way of selling a company's product either directly or via distributors

• transmit or serve as the medium for transmission

• direct the flow of

• send from one person or place to another

• a long narrow excavation in the earth

• any small natural waterway

• forsake

• throw away

• sever all ties with, usually unceremoniously or irresponsibly

• make an emergency landing on water

• crash or crash-land

• cut a trench in, as for drainage

• a long shallow trench in the ground (especially one made by a plow)

• a slight depression or fold in the smoothness of a surface

• hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove

• make wrinkled or creased

• cut a furrow into a columns

• a long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process (such as erosion) or by a tool (as e.g. a groove in a phonograph record)

• a settled and monotonous routine that is hard to escape

• (anatomy) any furrow or channel on a bodily structure or part

• make a groove in, or provide with a groove

• hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove

• any of several malignant neoplasms (usually of the skin) consisting of melanocytes

• a sizeable hole (usually in the ground)

• a concavity in a surface (especially an anatomical depression)

• the hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that contains the seed

• (Christianity) the abode of Satan and the forces of evil; where sinners suffer eternal punishment

• an enclosure in which animals are made to fight

• (commodity exchange) the part of the floor of a commodity exchange where trading in a particular commodity is carried on

• (auto racing) an area at the side of a racetrack where the race cars are serviced and refueled

• a trap in the form of a concealed hole

• a surface excavation for extracting stone or slate

• lowered area in front of a stage where an orchestra accompanies the performers

• a workplace consisting of a coal mine plus all the buildings and equipment connected with it

• set into opposition or rivalry

• mark with a scar

• remove the pits from

• a groove or furrow (especially one in soft earth caused by wheels)

• a settled and monotonous routine that is hard to escape

• applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or period of heightened sexual arousal and activity

• be in a state of sexual excitement; of male mammals

• hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove

• a ditch dug as a fortification having a parapet of the excavated earth

• a long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor

• any long ditch cut in the ground

• impinge or infringe upon

• fortify by surrounding with trenches

• cut or carve deeply into

• set, plant, or bury in a trench

• cut a trench in, as for drainage

• dig a trench or trenches

• a container (usually in a barn or stable) from which cattle or horses feed

• a round vessel that is open at the top; used chiefly for holding grains or liquids

• a concave shape with an open top

• a dish that is round and open at the top for serving foods

• the quantity contained in a bowl

• a large structure for open-air sports or entertainments

• a large ball with finger holes used in the sport of bowling

• a wooden ball (with flattened sides so that it rolls on a curved course) used in the game of lawn bowling

• a small round container that is open at the top for holding tobacco

• the act of rolling something (as the ball in bowling)

• roll (a ball)

• hurl a cricket ball from one end of the pitch towards the batsman at the other end

• engage in the sport of bowling

• unstratified soil deposited by a glacier; consists of sand and clay and gravel and boulders mixed together

• a treasury for government funds

• a strongbox for holding cash

• work land as by ploughing, harrowing, and manuring, in order to make it ready for cultivation

• a treasury for government funds