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Born vs Trough - What's the difference?

born | trough |

As nouns the difference between born and trough

is that born is while trough is a long, narrow container, open on top, for feeding or watering animals.

As a verb trough is

to eat in a vulgar style, as if eating from a trough.

born

English

(wikipedia born)

Etymology 1

From the verb (term).

Verb

(head)
  • ; given birth to.

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • Well suited to (some behaviour or occupation), as though from birth.
  • * 1942 , Storm Jameson, Then we shall hear singing: a fantasy in C major
    • I ought really to have called him my sergeant. He's a born' sergeant. That's as much as to say he's a ' born scoundrel.
    Derived terms
    * born in a barn * born leader * born loser * born killer * born-again * firstborn * highborn * low-born * newborn * stillborn * twice-born
    See also
    * borne

    Etymology 2

    Dialectal variant of (burn).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Geordie) A stream.
    • References
    *

    Verb

  • (Geordie) With fire.
    • References
    *

    Statistics

    *

    Anagrams

    * English irregular past participles 1000 English basic words ----

    trough

    English

    (wikipedia trough)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A long, narrow container, open on top, for feeding or watering animals.
    • One of Hank's chores was to slop the pigs' trough each morning and evening.
  • Any similarly shaped container.
  • # (Australia, New Zealand) A rectangular container used for washing or rinsing clothes.
  • Ernest threw his paint brushes into a kind of trough he had fashioned from sheet metal that he kept in the sink.
  • A short, narrow canal designed to hold water until it drains or evaporates.
    • There was a small trough that the sump pump emptied into; it was filled with mosquito larvae.
  • (Canada) A gutter under the eaves of a building; an eaves trough.
    • The troughs were filled with leaves and needed clearing.
  • (agriculture, Australia, New Zealand) A channel for conveying water or other farm liquids (such as milk) from place to place by gravity; any ‘U’ or ‘V’ cross-sectioned irrigation channel.
  • A long, narrow depression between waves or ridges; the low portion of a wave cycle.
    • The buoy bobbed between the crests and troughs of the waves moving across the bay.
    The neurologist pointed to a troubling trough in the pattern of his brain-waves.
  • (meteorology) A linear atmospheric depression associated with a weather front.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To eat in a vulgar style, as if eating from a trough
    • he troughed his way through 3 meat pies.

    References

    * Oxford English Dictionary Online

    See also

    * crib * ditch * trench