Difference between Trough and Gutter

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.

Gutter

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: suitable for the gutter; vulgar, disreputable

Part of speech: verb

Definition: to flow or stream; to form guttersto melt away or fail from becoming channeled on one sideto flicker as if about to be extinguished

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A ditch along the side of a road.A duct or channel beneath the eaves of a building to carry rain water.A grooves down the sides of a bowling lane.A large groove (commonly behind animals) in a barn used for the collection and removal of animal excrement.A space between printed columns of text.Something distasteful or morally questionable.A drainage channel(Stamp Collecting) an unprinted space between rows of stamps.

Example sentence: When elites see a homeless person in the gutter, they assume he's saving a parking place.