Rut vs Trough - What's the difference?
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(zoology) Sexual desire or oestrus of cattle, and various other mammals
Roaring, as of waves breaking upon the shore; rote.
to be in the annual rut
to have sexual intercourse
To mount or cover during copulation.
A furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground, as from the passage of many wheels along a road
A fixed routine, procedure, line of conduct, thought or feeling (See also rutter)
A dull routine
To make a furrow
A long, narrow container, open on top, for feeding or watering animals.
Any similarly shaped container.
# (Australia, New Zealand) A rectangular container used for washing or rinsing clothes.
A short, narrow canal designed to hold water until it drains or evaporates.
(Canada) A gutter under the eaves of a building; an eaves trough.
(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.
(meteorology) A linear atmospheric depression associated with a weather front.
To eat in a vulgar style, as if eating from a trough
Rut is a related term of trough.
As a proper noun rut
is , cognate to ruth.As a noun 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.rut
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Verb
- (Dryden)
Etymology 2
16th century. Probably from (etyl) route ‘road’Noun
(en noun)- Dull job, no interests, no dates. He's really in a rut .
Verb
(rutt)Anagrams
* * English terms with multiple etymologies ----trough
English
(wikipedia trough)Noun
(en noun)- One of Hank's chores was to slop the pigs' trough each morning and evening.
- Ernest threw his paint brushes into a kind of trough he had fashioned from sheet metal that he kept in the sink.
- There was a small trough that the sump pump emptied into; it was filled with mosquito larvae.
- The troughs were filled with leaves and needed clearing.
- 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.
Verb
(en verb)- he troughed his way through 3 meat pies.
