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Adjective of 'trough'?

I'm just curious because, so far, I haven't been able to find the adjective of 'trough' in any dictionaries I've come across. My interest relates to meteorology for example in how to describe a trough-like dip in isobars.

Thanks for any help. Regards,
Martin Watson
  

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[nq:1]I'm just curious because, so far, I haven't been able to find the adjective of 'trough' in any dictionaries I've come across. [/nq] Are those like Mars bars? Michael Hamm AM, Math, Wash.

  • [nq:1]I'm just curious because, so far, I haven't been able to find the adjective of 'trough' in any dictionaries I've come across.
  • [/nq] Are those like Mars bars?
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[nq:1]I'm just curious because, so far, I haven't been able to find the adjective of 'trough' in any dictionaries I've come across. My interest relates to meteorology for example in how to describe a trough-like dip[/nq]^^
[nq:1]in isobars.[/nq]
Are those like Mars bars?
Michael Hamm
AM, Math, Wash. U. St. Louis
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[nq:1]I'm just curious because, so far, I haven't been able to find theadjective of 'trough' in any dictionaries I've come across. My interest relates to meteorology for example in how to describe a trough-like dip in isobars.[/nq]
Troughful, like a chocolate troughful.
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[nq:1]I'm just curious because, so far, I haven't been able to find the adjective of 'trough' in any dictionaries I've come across. My interest relates to meteorology for example in how to describe a trough-like dip in isobars. Thanks for any help. Regards, Martin Watson[/nq]
Troughily isobode with a northerly blustery, yess!

(Back to you, Mike.)

Ross Howard
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[nq:1]I'm just curious because, so far, I haven't been able to find the adjective of 'trough' in any dictionaries I've come across. My interest relates to meteorology for example in how to describe a trough-like dip in isobars.[/nq]
Well, if there's a dip in the isobars, it's a trough. If UK meteorologists ever needed an adjective, it
would be "troughy". As in "... that straight westerly's
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[nq:2]I'm just curious because, so far, I haven't been able ... dip in isobars. Thanks for any help. Regards, Martin Watson[/nq]
[nq:1]Troughily isobode with a northerly blustery, yess! (Back to you, Mike.)[/nq]
Oh my Goodwin sandstorms, yes! Deep depressy for the marinade over Iceland and the Tescode; Scilly, Scilly Fisherfriends where anglers fear to Sole; Yar bloated in the anticyclode;
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[nq:2]I'm just curious because, so far, I haven't been able ... example in how to describe a trough-like dip in isobars.[/nq]
[nq:1]Well, if there's a dip in the isobars, it's a trough. If UK meteorologists ever needed an adjective, it would be "troughy". As in "... that straight westerly's beginning to look a little troughy over Ireland." Philip Eden (wearing his meteorologist hat)[/nq]
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[nq:1]I'm just curious because, so far, I haven't been able to find the adjective of 'trough' in any dictionaries I've come across. My interest relates to meteorology for example in how to describe a trough-like dip in isobars. Thanks for any help. Regards, Martin Watson[/nq]
Deep trough? Shallow trough?

dg (domain=ccwebster)
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[nq:2]I'm just curious because, so far, I haven't been able ... example in how to describe a trough-like dip in isobars.[/nq]
[nq:1]Well, if there's a dip in the isobars, it's a trough. If UK meteorologists ever needed an adjective, it would be "troughy". As in "... that straight westerly's beginning to look a little troughy over Ireland."[/nq]
The Oxford English Dictionary has "troughy",
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[nq:1]adjective[/nq]
[nq:2]Troughily isobode with a northerly blustery, yess! (Back to you, Mike.)[/nq]
[nq:1]Oh my Goodwin sandstorms, yes! Deep depressy for the marinade over Iceland and the Tescode; Scilly, Scilly Fisherfriends ... North and Sow's earserious in the Minches, tummy-heavie on the boozzie of the deep, what a Lundy morning![/nq]
Deep, deep mummylode! Marblious Da Vinci C
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[nq:2]Well, if there's a dip in the isobars, it's a ... straight westerly's beginning to look a little troughy over Ireland."[/nq]
[nq:1]The Oxford English Dictionary has "troughy", but it also mentions the adjectives "trough-like" and "trough-shaped". Webster's Third ... but Random House Webster's Unabridged has "troughlike" and no "troughy". To me "troughy" seems less dignified than "troughl

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