Chip Gaines

Getting up at four in the morning to tend the farm while the world is quiet - feeding animals, mucking stalls, gathering eggs, filling water troughs, checking fences, letting animals out into the field - is a high point to my day.

American Entertainer

Charles Koch

Far too many well-connected businesses are feeding at the federal trough. By addressing corporate welfare as well as other forms of welfare, we would add a whole new level of understanding to the notion of entitlement reform.

American Businessman

Barkha Dutt

The crests and troughs in Covid-19 cases and the spikes and falls of daily infographics by which we now measure the wellness of our lives have been based mostly on city-driven data.

Indian Journalist

Siri Hustvedt

I've come to understand that migraine is a part of the personality. I have migraine troughs. These often follow high productivity. I have a hypo-manic phase, then I'll crash.

American Novelist

Paul Harvey

Cut out the free feed for the boss hogs at the public trough and the spill-over they've been leaving us. We'll manage.

American Journalist

Steve Hanke

It turns out that the rich are much better placed to feed at the public trough. The poor get crumbs.

American Economist

Michael Lee-Chin

Life is not linear; you have ups and downs. It's how you deal with the troughs that defines you.

Jamaican Businessman

Ben Kingsley

There have not been any troughs as regards my work. There's never been a trough of my assurance.

English Actor

Karl Shapiro

Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name.

American Poet

Diogenes

I threw my cup away when I saw a child drinking from his hands at the trough.

Greek Philosopher

Trough is commonly used when talking about feeding or watering farm animals.

Farm Settings

Trough refers to a real, physical object that is usually rectangular and open on top.

Physical Object

In economics, a trough represents a period when economic activity is at its lowest.

Economic Context

Though it describes economic lows, it's not always about money; it can be any low point.

Metaphorical Usage

A trough in physics refers specifically to the lowest part of a wave, opposite the crest.

Wave Anatomy

The word trough can create a vivid image in descriptions of the ocean or sea states.

Descriptive Language

Trough often describes natural or man-made depressions in the ground caused by water.

Land Formation

Don't confuse 'trough' with 'through'; 'trough' involves a low or hollow area.

Common Confusion

 name if I could hear that again it would be hugely helpful Odie farming now Odie farming you want to know about the social structure of giraffe trough I interesting they're not territorial and they don't really have a set herd structure they're quite social creatures they'll gather together in these herds and then sometimes I'll just wander off

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 kind of the trajectory of a technology's lifespan. And just for fun, we put a bunch of technologies on it, to show whether they were kind of rising for the first high peak, or whether they were about to crash into the trough of disillusionment,

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 knew there was a coelacanth and the rivers there and he said no and I said well one day I was watching and studying and fiddling with these bones and all of a sudden it came to me maybe it had no two sockets maybe had a giant trough

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 been dug straight into the sand with no supporting structure and it regularly collapses these balls just keep caving in on us cows need a lot of water and getting it out of the ground and up to the trough his serious physical work

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 especially in the developing world, to treat people. So slow down, slow down the speed of the epidemic, and then in the troughs, in between waves, jump on, double down, step on it, and find every case, trace every contact,

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 They have a trough and a crest, and consist not of moving water, but the movement of energy through water. The difference is in where this energy comes from. For normal ocean waves, it comes from wind.

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 Something can be yin or yang depending on, well, depending on lots of things. So, while wheat that's growing is yang, when it's being reaped, it's yin. A wave's crest is yang, and the trough is yin.

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 the attacking trough workers drive on into the nest as news of the attack reaches the corral queen she withdraws to the deepest chambers

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 the attacking trough workers drive on into the nest as news of the attack reaches the corral Queen she withdraws to the deepest

Trough

A long container from which animals eat or drink.

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A low point or point of depression between two high points, especially in economics.

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A hollow in a wave.

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Usage tips

A channel, gully, or valley, typically one that is carved by water.

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Farm Settings

Physical Object

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