Meaning of trunk | Babel Free

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1. trunk (tree trunk)
2. A surname from German.
3. Part of a body.
4. The usually single, more or less upright part of a tree, between the roots and the branches.
5. trunk (main channel)
6. short trousers or pants worn by boys or men, especially the type used for swimming. swimming-trunks; He wore only a pair of bathing -trunks. kortbroek, swembroek سِرْوال قَصير للحَمّام къси гащета calções plavky; trenýrky die (Bade-)Hose badebukser ανδρικό μαγιόtraje de baño ujumispüksid شلوارک؛ شورت ورزشی uimahousut maillot de bain בֶּגֶד-יָם जांघिया bokserice úszónadrág celana pendek íþróttabuxur, sundskÿla pantaloncini 水泳パンツ 반바지 glaudės sporta biksītes; peldbikses seluar renang zwembroekba...
   especially
7. The torso; especially, the human torso.
8. torso
9. The main woody axis of a tree.
10. 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.
11. frustum
12. The body of a human or other vertebrate, excluding the head and limbs.
13. A container.
14. 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.
15. team (of mules, etc.)
16. A proboscis, especially the long prehensile proboscis of an elephant.
17. 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.
18. A main body, apart from tributaries or appendages.
19. The luggage storage compartment of a sedan/saloon-style car.
    Canada, US
20. A trunk line.
21. A storage compartment fitted behind the seat of a motorcycle.
22. A chute or conduit.
23. A channel for flow of some kind.
    US
24. A major circuit between telephone switchboards or other switching equipment.
    US
25. Nautical a. A watertight shaft connecting two or more decks.
    Nautical
26. A chute or conduit, or a watertight shaft connecting two or more decks.
27. Nautical Any of certain structures projecting above part of a main deck, as:a. A covering over the hatches of a ship.
    Nautical
28. 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.
29. A covered compartment for luggage and storage, generally at the rear of an automobile.
30. A long tube through which pellets of clay, peas, etc., are driven by the force of the breath. A peashooter
    archaic
31. A flume or sluice in which ores are separated from the slimes in which they are contained.
32. In software projects under source control: the most current source tree, from which the latest unstable builds (so-called "trunk builds") are compiled.
33. The main line or body of anything.
34. A main line in a river, canal, railroad, or highway system.
35. The part of a pilaster between the base and capital, corresponding to the shaft of a column.
36. 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.
37. Ellipsis of swimming trunks.
    abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, in-plural

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Examples

“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.”

“To lie, like pawns, lock'd up in chests and trunks”

“I'm a stunt; ride in the car with some bump in the trunk.”

“He shot Sugar Plums at them out of a Trunk.”

“the trunk of a vein or of an artery, as distinct from the branches”

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