Trough vs Between - What's the difference?
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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
In the position or interval that separates (two things), or intermediate in quantity or degree. (See the Usage notes below.)
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Shared in confidence.
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In transit from (one to the other, or connecting places).
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Combined (by effort or ownership).
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One of (representing a choice).
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A kind of needle, shorter than a sharp, with a small rounded eye, used for making fine stitches on heavy fabrics.
As nouns the difference between trough and between
is that trough is a long, narrow container, open on top, for feeding or watering animals while between is a kind of needle, shorter than a sharp, with a small rounded eye, used for making fine stitches on heavy fabrics.As a verb trough
is to eat in a vulgar style, as if eating from a trough.As a preposition between is
in the position or interval that separates (two things), or intermediate in quantity or degree (see the usage notes below).trough
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(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.
References
* Oxford English Dictionary OnlineSee also
* crib * ditch * trenchbetween
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Alternative forms
* betweene (archaic) * betwene (archaic) * (abbreviation)Preposition
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