name
Meaning 1
A surname from German.
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name
A surname from German.
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noun
Part of a body.
The usually single, more or less upright part of a tree, between the roots and the branches.
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Topics: biology, heading, natural-sciences
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Synonyms: bole, tree trunk, stock
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noun
Part of a body.
The torso; especially, the human torso.
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Topics: biology, heading, natural-sciences
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noun
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.
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Topics: biology, heading, natural-sciences
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Synonyms: proboscis
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noun
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.
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Topics: heading
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noun
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.
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Topics: heading
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noun
A container.
The luggage storage compartment of a sedan/saloon-style car.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Canada, US
Topics: automotive, heading, transport, vehicles
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Synonyms: boot, dicky
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noun
A container.
A storage compartment fitted behind the seat of a motorcycle.
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Topics: automotive, heading, transport, vehicles
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Synonyms: topbox, topcase
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noun
A channel for flow of some kind.
A major circuit between telephone switchboards or other switching equipment.
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Usage: US
Topics: communications, electrical-engineering, engineering, heading, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, telecommunications
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noun
A channel for flow of some kind.
A chute or conduit, or a watertight shaft connecting two or more decks.
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Topics: heading
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noun
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.
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Topics: heading
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noun
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
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Usage: archaic
Topics: heading
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noun
A channel for flow of some kind.
A flume or sluice in which ores are separated from the slimes in which they are contained.
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Topics: business, heading, mining
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noun
In software projects under source control: the most current source tree, from which the latest unstable builds (so-called "trunk builds") are compiled.
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Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences, software
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noun
The main line or body of anything.
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noun
The main line or body of anything.
A main line in a river, canal, railroad, or highway system.
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Topics: transport
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noun
The main line or body of anything.
The part of a pilaster between the base and capital, corresponding to the shaft of a column.
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Topics: architecture
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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.
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noun
Ellipsis of swimming trunks.
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Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, in-plural
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verb
To lop off; to curtail; to truncate.
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Usage: obsolete, transitive
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verb
To extract (ores) from the slimes in which they are contained, by means of a trunk.
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Usage: transitive
Topics: business, mining
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verb
To provide simultaneous network access to multiple clients by sharing a set of circuits, carriers, channels, or frequencies.
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Topics: communications, electrical-engineering, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, telecommunications
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noun
a long flexible snout as of an elephant
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: proboscis
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Broader terms: snout, neb
noun
compartment in an automobile that carries luggage or shopping or tools
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: luggage compartment, automobile trunk
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: compartment
Narrower terms: boot
noun
luggage consisting of a large strong case used when traveling or for storage
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: baggage, luggage
Narrower terms: footlocker, locker
noun
the body excluding the head and neck and limbs
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: torso, body
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Broader terms: body part
noun
the main stem of a tree; usually covered with bark; the bole is usually the part that is commercially useful for lumber
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: tree trunk, bole
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: stalk, stem
History
Borrowed from German Trunk, also a Jewish Ashkenazi surname.
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.
Across languages
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