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Trough vs Platter - What's the difference?

trough | platter |

As nouns the difference between trough and platter

is that trough is a long, narrow container, open on top, for feeding or watering animals while platter is a tray for serving foods or platter can be one who plats/plaits or braids.

As a verb trough

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

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

    platter

    English

    Etymology 1

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A tray for serving foods.
  • * 1765 , Oliver Goldsmith,
    • While his lov'd partner boastful of her hoard,
    Displays the cleanly platter on the board;
  • The part of a turntable on which a gramophone record rests when being played, commonly made of aluminum, but sometimes of high-impact plastic.
    • See also
    * on a silver platter * silver platter

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who plats/plaits or braids.
    • (Webster 1913)

    Anagrams

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