Synonyms of the word

trough

• n. A long, narrow container, open on top, for feeding or watering animals.
• n. Any similarly shaped container.
• n. A short, narrow canal designed to hold water until it drains or evaporates.
• n. (Canada) A gutter under the eaves of a building; an eaves trough.
• n. (agriculture, Australia, New Zealand) A channel for conveying water or other farm liquids (such as milk)…
• n. A long, narrow depression between waves or ridges; the low portion of a wave cycle.
• n. (meteorology) A linear atmospheric depression associated with a weather front.
• v. To eat in a vulgar style, as if from a trough.

bowl

• n. A roughly hemispherical container used to hold, mix or present food, such as salad, fruit or soup, or…
• n. As much as is held by a bowl.
• n. A haircut in which straight hair is cut at an even height around the edges, forming a bowl shape.
• n. A round crater (or similar) in the ground.
• n. The part of a spoon that holds content, as opposed to the handle.
• n. A part of a pipe or bong packed with marijuana for smoking.
• n. (sports, theater) An elliptical-shaped stadium or amphitheater resembling a bowl.
• n. (American football) A postseason football competition, a bowl game (i.e. Rose Bowl, Super Bowl).
• n. (typography) A rounded portion of a glyph that encloses empty space, as in the letters d and o.
• n. The ball rolled by players in the game of lawn bowls.
• n. The action of bowling a ball.
• n. (in the plural, but used with a singular verb) The game of bowls.
• v. (transitive) To roll or throw (a ball) in the correct manner in cricket and similar games and sports.
• v. (intransitive) To throw the ball (in cricket and similar games and sports).
• v. To roll or carry smoothly on, or as on, wheels.
• v. To pelt or strike with anything rolled.

channel

• n. The physical confine of a river or slough, consisting of a bed and banks.
• n. The natural or man-made deeper course through a reef, bar, bay, or any shallow body of water.
• n. The navigable part of a river.
• n. A narrow body of water between two land masses.
• n. That through which anything passes; means of conveying or transmitting.
• n. A gutter; a groove, as in a fluted column.
• n. (nautical, in the plural) Flat ledges of heavy plank bolted edgewise to the outside of a vessel, to increase…
• n. (electronics) A connection between initiating and terminating nodes of a circuit.
• n. (electronics) The narrow conducting portion of a MOSFET transistor.
• n. (communication) The part that connects a data source to a data sink.
• n. (communication) A path for conveying electrical or electromagnetic signals, usually distinguished from…
• n. (communication) A single path provided by a transmission medium via physical separation, such as by multipair…
• n. (communication) A single path provided by a transmission medium via spectral or protocol separation, such…
• n. (broadcasting) A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies, usually in conjunction with a predetermined…
• n. (broadcasting) A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies used for transmitting television.
• n. (storage) The portion of a storage medium, such as a track or a band, that is accessible to a given reading…
• n. (technic) The way in a turbine pump where the pressure is built up.
• n. (business, marketing) A distribution channel.
• n. (Internet) A particular area for conversations on an IRC network, analogous to a chatroom and often dedicated…
• n. (Internet) An obsolete means of delivering up-to-date Internet content.
• n. A psychic or medium who temporarily takes on the personality of somebody else.
• v. To direct the flow of something.
• v. To assume the personality of another person, typically a historic figure, in a theatrical or paranormal…
• n. (nautical) The wale of a sailing ship which projects beyond the gunwale and to which the shrouds attach…

concavity

• n. (uncountable) The state of being concave.
• n. (countable) A concave structure or surface.

container

• n. Someone who contains; something that contains.
• n. An item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported.
• n. A very large, typically metal, box used for transporting goods (also cargo container).
• n. (by extension) someone who holds people in their seats or in a (reasonably) calm state.
• n. (computing) A file format that can hold various types of data.
• n. (object-oriented programming) An abstract data type whose instances are collections of other objects.
• n. (computing, graphical user interface) Any user interface component that can hold further (child) components.

depression

• n. (psychology) In psychotherapy and psychiatry, a state of mind producing serious, long-term lowering of…
• n. (geography) An area that is lower in topography than its surroundings.
• n. (psychology) In psychotherapy and psychiatry, a period of unhappiness or low morale which lasts longer…
• n. (meteorology) An area of lowered air pressure that generally brings moist weather, sometimes promoting…
• n. (economics) A period of major economic contraction.
• n. (economics, US) Four consecutive quarters of negative, real GDP growth. See NBER.
• n. (biology, physiology) A lowering, in particular a reduction in a particular biological variable or the…

exchequer

• n. A treasury.
• n. An available fund of money, especially one for a specific purpose.

gutter

• n. A prepared channel in a surface, especially at the side of a road adjacent to a curb, intended for the…
• n. A ditch along the side of a road.
• n. A duct or channel beneath the eaves of a building to carry rain water; eavestrough.
• n. (bowling) A groove down the sides of a bowling lane.
• n. A large groove (commonly behind animals) in a barn used for the collection and removal of animal excrement.
• n. Any narrow channel or groove, such as one formed by erosion in the vent of a gun from repeated firing.
• n. (typography) A space between printed columns of text.
• n. (philately) An unprinted space between rows of stamps.
• n. (Britain) A drainage channel.
• n. The notional locus of things, acts, or events which are distasteful, ill bred or morally questionable.
• n. (figuratively) A low, vulgar state.
• v. To flow or stream; to form gutters.
• v. (of a candle) To melt away by having the molten wax run down along the side of the candle.
• v. (of a small flame) To flicker as if about to be extinguished.
• v. (transitive) To send (a bowling ball) into the gutter, not hitting any pins.
• v. (transitive) To supply with a gutter or gutters.
• v. (transitive) To cut or form into small longitudinal hollows; to channel.
• n. One who or that which guts.

incurvation

• n. The act of acquiring or being given a curved form; a curving or bending; any instance of this.
• n. (obsolete) Bowing in reverence or worship.
• n. The state of being curved or bent; any curved shape or formation; curvature; a curve; a bend.
• n. A curving inwards; the condition of being curved inwards.

manger

• n. A trough for animals to eat from.

receptacle

• n. A container.
• n. (botany) The part of the flower stalk (peduncle or pedicel) to which the floral parts are attached; a…
• n. (phycology) A structure at the end of a branch of an alga containing conceptacles (reproductive organs).
• n. (electricity, US) A contact device installed at an outlet for the connection of an attachment plug (typically…

till

• prep. (now dialectal) To.
• prep. Until, up to, as late as (a given time).
• prep. (dialectal) In order that, to enable.
• conj. Until, until the time that.
• n. A cash register.
• n. A removable box within a cash register containing the money.
• n. The contents of a cash register, for example at the beginning or end of the day or of a cashier's shift.
• n. (obsolete) A tray or drawer in a chest.
• v. (transitive) To develop so as to improve or prepare for usage; to cultivate (said of knowledge, virtue,…
• v. (transitive) To work or cultivate or plough (soil); to prepare for growing vegetation and crops.
• v. (intransitive) To cultivate soil.
• v. (obsolete) To prepare; to get.
• n. glacial drift consisting of a mixture of clay, sand, pebbles and boulders.
• n. (dialect) manure or other material used to fertilize land.
• n. A vetch; a tare.

treasury

• n. A place where treasure is stored safely.
• n. A place where state or royal money and valuables are stored.
• n. A collection of artistic or literary works.
• n. (obsolete) A treasure.