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🇩🇪German Source WordCode: DE

Trog

Pronunciation / Transliteration: troːk

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Trough/trɒf/
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🇩🇪 Example Sentence in German:

"Das Vieh trinkt aus dem Trog."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A long, narrow open container for animals to eat or drink from.

    "The horses gathered around the wooden trough to drink fresh water."
  2. 2

    An elongated area of low atmospheric pressure, or the lowest point in a wave, economic cycle, or fluctuation.

    "Economists predict that the current market slump has finally reached its trough."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from Old English 'trog', meaning a wooden vessel or tub, originating from Proto-Germanic '*trugaz'. Over centuries, the meaning expanded metaphorically from a long, narrow open container for feeding animals or holding water to describe any elongated depression, such as between waves or in economic activity.

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