trunk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹʌŋk/
ipa: /tɹʌŋk/
ipa: [t͡ʃɹʌŋk]
ipa: [tɹʌŋk]
rhymes: -ʌŋk
Forms: form: trunks
Etymology: From Middle English tronke, trunke, from Old French tronc (“alms box, tree trunk, headless body”), from Latin truncus (“a stock, lopped tree trunk”), from truncus (“cut off, maimed, mutilated”). For the verb, compare French tronquer, and see truncate. Doublet of truncus and tronk.
Senses: topics: biology
heading
natural-sciences
glosses: Part of a body.
The usually single, more or less upright part of a tree, between the roots and the branches.
synonyms: bole#Etymology_1
tree trunk
topics: biology
heading
natural-sciences
glosses: Part of a body.
The torso; especially, the human torso.
topics: biology
heading
natural-sciences
glosses: Part of a body.
The conspicuously extended, mobile, nose-like organ of an animal such as a sengi, a tapir or especially an elephant. The trunks of various kinds of animals might be adapted to probing and sniffing, as in the sengis, or be partly prehensile, as in the tapir, or be a versatile prehensile organ for manipulation, feeding, drinking and fighting as in the elephant.
synonyms: proboscis
examples: text: There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy. Mail bags, so I understand, are being put on board. Stewards, carrying cabin trunks, swarm in the corridors.
ref: 1915, G[eorge] A. Birmingham [pseudonym; James Owen Hannay], chapter I, in Gossamer, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, →OCLC, page 01:
topics: heading
glosses: A container.
A large suitcase, chest, or similar receptacle for carrying or storing personal possessions, usually with a hinged, often domed lid, and handles at each end, so that generally it takes two persons to carry a full trunk.
examples: text: To lie, like pawns, lock'd up in chests and trunks
ref: c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
topics: heading
glosses: A container.
A box or chest usually covered with leather, metal, or cloth, or sometimes made of leather, hide, or metal, for holding or transporting clothes or other goods.
examples: text: I'm a stunt; ride in the car with some bump in the trunk.
ref: 2005, “Stay Fly”, in Jordan Houston, Darnell Carlton, Paul Beauregard, Premro Smith, Marlon Goodwin, David Brown, Willie Hutchinson (lyrics), Most Known Unknown, performed by Three 6 Mafia (featuring Young Buck, 8 Ball, and MJG), Sony BMG:
topics: automotive
heading
transport
vehicles
glosses: A container.
The luggage storage compartment of a sedan/saloon-style car.
synonyms: word: boot
word: dicky
topics: automotive
heading
transport
vehicles
glosses: A container.
A storage compartment fitted behind the seat of a motorcycle.
synonyms: topbox
topcase
coordinate_terms: saddlebag
saddle bag
pannier
creel
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
heading
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: A channel for flow of some kind.
A major circuit between telephone switchboards or other switching equipment.
topics: heading
glosses: A channel for flow of some kind.
A chute or conduit, or a watertight shaft connecting two or more decks.
topics: heading
glosses: A channel for flow of some kind.
A long, large box, pipe, or conductor, made of plank or metal plates, for various uses, as for conveying air to a mine or to a furnace, water to a mill, grain to an elevator, etc.
examples: text: He shot Sugar Plums at them out of a Trunk.
ref: 1655, James Howell, “To the Lord Viscount Col. from Madrid”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], 3rd edition, volume (please specify the page), London: […] Humphrey Mos[e]ley, […], →OCLC:
topics: heading
glosses: A channel for flow of some kind.
A long tube through which pellets of clay, peas, etc., are driven by the force of the breath. A peashooter
topics: business
heading
mining
glosses: A channel for flow of some kind.
A flume or sluice in which ores are separated from the slimes in which they are contained.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: In software projects under source control: the most current source tree, from which the latest unstable builds (so-called "trunk builds") are compiled.
examples: text: the trunk of a vein or of an artery, as distinct from the branches
glosses: The main line or body of anything.
topics: transport
glosses: The main line or body of anything.
A main line in a river, canal, railroad, or highway system.
topics: architecture
glosses: The main line or body of anything.
The part of a pilaster between the base and capital, corresponding to the shaft of a column.
glosses: A large pipe forming the piston rod of a steam engine, of sufficient diameter to allow one end of the connecting rod to be attached to the crank, and the other end to pass within the pipe directly to the piston, thus making the engine more compact.
glosses: Ellipsis of swimming trunks.
Derived terms: word: brachiocephalic trunk
word: celiac trunk
word: costocervical trunk
word: elephant's trunk
word: elephant trunk
word: floppy trunk syndrome
word: hand trunk
word: jugular trunk
word: junk in one's trunk
word: junk in the trunk
word: nerve trunk
word: pulmonary trunk
word: steamer trunk
word: subscriber trunk dialling
word: sympathetic trunk
word: the apple does not fall far from the trunk
word: thyrocervical trunk
word: tree trunk
word: trunk breeches
word: trunk briefs
word: trunk call
word: Trunk Cay
word: trunkless
english: decklid
translation: decklid
word: trunklid
word: trunklike
word: trunk-like
word: trunk line
word: trunk-maker
word: trunk novel
word: trunk or treat
word: trunk piston
word: trunk road
word: trunk show
word: trunk sleeve
word: trunky