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Trunk (disambiguation)
trunk
n.
1.
Stem, stock, stalk, body, bole.
2.
Body (without the limbs).
3.
Main body.
4.
Proboscis, snout.
5.
Leat, watercourse.
6.
Box, chest, coffer.
7.
(Arch.) Shaft of a column.
trunk
¦ noun
1. the main woody stem of a tree as distinct from its branches and roots.
the main part of an artery, nerve, or other structure from which smaller branches arise.
2. a person's or animal's body apart from the limbs and head.
3. the elongated, prehensile nose of an elephant.
4. a large box with a hinged lid for storing or transporting clothes and other articles.
5. N. Amer. the boot of a car.
6. [as modifier] relating to the main routes of a transport or communication network: a trunk road.
Derivatives
trunkful noun (plural trunkfuls).
trunkless adjective
Origin
ME: from OFr. tronc, from L. truncus.
Trunk
·noun The proboscis of an Insect.
II. Trunk ·noun The proboscis of an Elephant.
III. Trunk ·noun The body of an animal, apart from the head and limbs.
IV. Trunk ·noun A flume or sluice in which ores are separated from the slimes in which they are contained.
V. Trunk ·noun A long tube through which pellets of clay, p/as, ·etc., are driven by the force of the breath.
VI. Trunk ·noun The main body of anything; as, the trunk of a vein or of an artery, as distinct from the branches.
VII. Trunk ·vt To extract (ores) from the slimes in which they are contained, by means of a trunk. ·see Trunk, ·noun, 9.
VIII. Trunk ·noun That part of a pilaster which is between the base and the capital, corresponding to the shaft of a column.
IX. Trunk ·noun The stem, or body, of a tree, apart from its limbs and roots; the main stem, without the branches; stock; stalk.
XI. Trunk ·noun That segment of the body of an insect which is between the head and abdomen, and bears the wings and legs; the thorax; the truncus.
XII. Trunk ·noun 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.
XIII. Trunk ·noun A box or chest usually covered with leather, metal, or cloth, or sometimes made of leather, hide, or metal, for containing clothes or other goods; especially, one used to convey the effects of a traveler.
XIV. Trunk ·noun 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.
Pronunciation examples for trunk
1. Trunk.
The Standby - Food As A Family Affair _ Rebecca LaMalfa _ Talks at Google
2. Shut the goddamn trunk.
The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973)
3. JASON ANDREAS: Or trunk.
Wasteland, Baby! _ Hozier _ Talks at Google
4. That's a small trunk!
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5. REBECCA LAMALFA: Grand Trunk.
The Standby - Food As A Family Affair _ Rebecca LaMalfa _ Talks at Google
Examples of use of trunk
1. Transferring the tree trunk was more complicated.
2. The collision happened on a single–carriageway trunk road.
3. A white Toyota was abandoned there, its trunk unlatched.
4. "I just moved them from the trunk of his car to the trunk of my car, and I immediately drove away," Gravel remembers.
5. Maybe they should have looked in the trunk." Officials said the boys suffocated after climbing into the trunk on their own.