Difference between Trough and Bowl

What is the difference between Trough and Bowl?

Trough as a verb is to eat in a vulgar style, as if eating from a trough while Bowl as a verb is to roll or throw (a ball) in the correct manner in cricket and similar games and sports.

Trough

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To eat in a vulgar style, as if eating from a trough

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A long, narrow container, open on top, for feeding or watering animals. Any similarly shaped container. (Canadian) A gutter under the eaves of a building; eaves trough. A short, narrow canal designed to hold water until it drains or evaporates. A long, narrow depression between waves or ridges. A linear atmospheric depression associated with a weather front. (Australia, New Zealand) A rectangular container used for washing clothes, a channel for conveying water or other farm liquids (such as milk) from place to place by gravity, or any general 'U' or 'V' shaped channel conveying water for irrigation purposes.

Bowl

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To roll or throw (a ball) in the correct manner in cricket and similar games and sports.To throw the ball (in cricket and similar games and sports).

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A roughly hemispherical container used to hold, mix or present food, such as salad, fruit or soup, or other items.As much as is held by a bowl.The ball rolled by players in the game of lawn bowls.(also pudding bowl or bowl cut) A haircut in which straight hair is cut at an even height around the edges, forming a bowl shape.A round crater (or similar) in the ground.The action of bowling a ball.(in plural bowls but used with a singular verb) The game of bowls.an important annual game, such as the Orange Bowl, the Rose Bowl, or the Super Bowl

Example sentence: A few years ago, the city council of Monza, Italy, barred pet owners from keeping goldfish in curved bowls... saying that it is cruel to keep a fish in a bowl with curved sides because, gazing out, the fish would have a distorted view of reality. But how do we know we have the true, undistorted picture of reality?

We hope you now know whether to use Trough or Bowl in your sentence.

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