Groove vs. Trough — What's the Difference?

A long narrow furrow or channel.

A long, narrow, generally shallow receptacle for holding water or feed for animals.

The spiral track cut into a phonograph record for the stylus to follow.

Any of various similar containers for domestic or industrial use, such as kneading or washing.

(Informal) An interesting or enjoyable rhythm in a piece of music, especially in jazz or popular music.

A gutter under the edge of a roof for carrying off rainwater.

(Informal) A settled routine

A long, narrow depression, as between waves or ridges.

A situation or an activity that one enjoys or to which one is especially well suited

A low point in a business cycle or on a statistical graph.

A very pleasurable experience.

(Meteorology) An elongated region of relatively low atmospheric pressure, often associated with a front.

To cut a groove or grooves in.

(Physics) A minimum point in a wave or an alternating signal.

(Baseball) To throw (a pitch) over the middle of home plate, where it is likely to be hit.

A long, narrow container, open on top, for feeding or watering animals.

To take great pleasure or satisfaction; enjoy oneself

Any similarly shaped container.

To be affected with pleasurable excitement.

A rectangular container used for washing or rinsing clothes.

To react or interact harmoniously.

A short, narrow canal designed to hold water until it drains or evaporates.

A long, narrow channel or depression; e.g., such a slot cut into a hard material to provide a location for an engineering component, a tyre groove, or a geological channel or depression.

(Canada) A gutter under the eaves of a building; an eaves trough.

A fixed routine.

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.

The middle of the strike zone in baseball where a pitch is most easily hit.

A long, narrow depression between waves or ridges; the low portion of a wave cycle.

(music) A pronounced, enjoyable rhythm.

(economy) low turning point or a local minimum of a business cycle

A good feeling (often as in the groove).

(meteorology) A linear atmospheric depression associated with a weather front.

(mining) A shaft or excavation.

To eat in a vulgar style, as if from a trough.

(motorsport) A racing line, a path across the racing circuit's surface that a racecar will usually track on. (Note: There may be multiple grooves on any particular circuit or segment of circuit)

A long, hollow vessel, generally for holding water or other liquid, especially one formed by excavating a log longitudinally on one side; a long tray; also, a wooden channel for conveying water, as to a mill wheel.

(transitive) To cut a groove or channel in; to form into channels or grooves; to furrow.

Any channel, receptacle, or depression, of a long and narrow shape; as, trough between two ridges, etc.

(intransitive) To perform, dance to, or enjoy rhythmic music.

The transverse section of a cyclonic area where the barometric pressure, neither rising nor falling, has reached its lowest point.

A furrow, channel, or long hollow, such as may be formed by cutting, molding, grinding, the wearing force of flowing water, or constant travel; a depressed way; a worn path; a rut.

A narrow depression (as in the earth or between ocean waves or in the ocean bed)

Hence: The habitual course of life, work, or affairs; fixed routine.

A channel along the eaves or on the roof; collects and carries away rainwater

A shaft or excavation.

A concave shape with an open top

To cut a groove or channel in; to form into channels or grooves; to furrow.

A treasury for government funds

A long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process (such as erosion) or by a tool (as e.g. a groove in a phonograph record)

A long narrow shallow receptacle

A settled and monotonous routine that is hard to escape;

A container (usually in a barn or stable) from which cattle or horses feed

(anatomy) any furrow or channel on a bodily structure or part

Make a groove in, or provide with a groove;

Hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove;