Crossword clues for trunk
trunk
- Place for a spare
- Elephant feature
- Spare room?
- Phone line
- Traveler's large tote
- Sequoia support
- Brit's "boot"
- Bottom, slangily
- Ventriloquist's need, often
- Tree support
- Torso — box
- Spare's place
- Spare-tire locale
- Spare location
- Site of a branch meeting?
- Prominent part of an elephant
- Place for road trip luggage
- Place for a donut
- Part of a tree — part of an elephant
- Main stem of a sycamore
- Jumbo feature
- Jack location
- Elephant's uprooter
- Elephant's nose
- Elephant part
- Driver's suitcase spot
- Container a contortionist might climb into
- Car or tree feature
- Back of the car
- Babar's snout
- Auto storage area
- "That Metal Show" host Eddie
- Spare holder
- Spare carrier
- Link aggregation, in computing
- Big case
- Jack's place
- Ventriloquist's prop
- Magician's prop
- Place to put bags
- Front of an elephant or back of a car
- Jack holder
- A long flexible snout as of an elephant
- Compartment in an automobile that carries luggage or shopping or tools (`boot' is British usage)
- The body excluding the head and neck and limbs
- Luggage consisting of a large strong case used when traveling or for storage
- The bole is usually the part that is commercially useful for lumber
- The main stem of a tree
- Usually covered with bark
- Elephant's proboscis
- Torso — part of an elephant — case
- Dumbo's proboscis
- Elephant's nasal extension
- Proboscis
- Tree part
- Actor's traditional birthplace
- Large storage box
- Large luggage box
- Box tree, in part
- Torso - box
- Branch headquarters?
- Mammoth feature
- Place for sweaters
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Trunk \Trunk\, n. [F. tronc, L. truncus, fr. truncus maimed, mutilated; perhaps akin to torquere to twist wrench, and E. torture. Trunk in the sense of proboscis is fr. F. trompe (the same word as trompe a trumpet), but has been confused in English with trunk the stem of a tree (see Trump a trumpet). Cf. Truncate.]
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The stem, or body, of a tree, apart from its limbs and roots; the main stem, without the branches; stock; stalk.
About the mossy trunk I wound me soon, For, high from ground, the branches would require Thy utmost reach.
--Milton. The body of an animal, apart from the head and limbs.
The main body of anything; as, the trunk of a vein or of an artery, as distinct from the branches.
(Arch) That part of a pilaster which is between the base and the capital, corresponding to the shaft of a column.
(Zo["o]l.) 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.
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(Zo["o]l.)
The proboscis of an elephant.
The proboscis of an insect.
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A long tube through which pellets of clay, p?as, etc., are driven by the force of the breath.
He shot sugarplums them out of a trunk.
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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.
Locked up in chests and trunks.
--Shak. (Mining) A flume or sluice in which ores are separated from the slimes in which they are contained.
(Steam Engine) 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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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.
Trunk engine, a marine engine, the piston rod of which is a trunk. See Trunk, 10.
Trunk hose, large breeches formerly worn, reaching to the knees.
Trunk line, the main line of a railway, canal, or route of conveyance.
Trunk turtle (Zo["o]l.), the leatherback.
Trunk \Trunk\, v. t. [Cf. F. tronquer. See Truncate.]
To lop off; to curtail; to truncate; to maim. [Obs.] ``Out of the trunked stock.''
--Spenser.(Mining) To extract (ores) from the slimes in which they are contained, by means of a trunk. See Trunk, n., 9.
--Weale.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., "box, case," from Old French tronc "alms box in a church," also "trunk of a tree, trunk of the human body, wooden block" (12c.), from Latin truncus "trunk of a tree, trunk of the body," of uncertain origin, perhaps originally "mutilated, cut off." The meaning "box, case" is likely to be from the notion of the body as the "case" of the organs. English acquired the "main stem of a tree" and "torso of the body" senses from Old French in late 15c. The sense of "luggage compartment of a motor vehicle" is from 1930. Railroad trunk line is attested from 1843; telephone version is from 1889.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (lb en heading biological) ''Part of a body.'' 2 # The (usually single) upright part of a tree, between the roots and the branches: the tree trunk. 3 # The torso. 4 # The extended and articulated nose or nasal organ of an elephant. 5 # The proboscis of an insect. 6 (lb en heading) ''A container.'' 7 # A large suitcase, usually requiring two persons to lift and with a hinged lid. 8 # 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. 9 # (lb en US Canada automotive) The luggage storage compartment of a sedan/saloon style car. 10 (lb en heading) ''A channel for flow of some kind.'' 11 # (lb en US telecommunications) A circuit between telephone switchboards or other switching equipment. 12 # A chute or conduit, or a watertight shaft connecting two or more decks. 13 # 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. 14 # (lb en archaic) A long tube through which pellets of clay, pas, etc., are driven by the force of the breath. 15 # (lb en mining) A flume or sluice in which ores are separated from the slimes in which they are contained. 16 (lb en software engineering, jargon) In software projects under source control: the most current source tree, from which the latest unstable builds (so-called "trunk builds") are compiled. 17 The main line or body of anything. 18 # (lb en transport) A main line in a river, canal, railroad, or highway system. 19 # (lb en architecture) The part of a pilaster between the base and capital, corresponding to the shaft of a column. 20 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. 21 Shorts used for swimming (swim trunks). vb. 1 (context obsolete English) To lop off; to curtail; to truncate. 2 (context mining English) To extract (ores) from the slimes in which they are contained, by means of a trunk.
WordNet
n. the main stem of a tree; usually covered with bark; the bole is usually the part that is commercially useful for lumber [syn: tree trunk, bole]
luggage consisting of a large strong case used when traveling or for storage
the body excluding the head and neck and limbs; "they moved their arms and legs and bodies" [syn: torso, body]
compartment in an automobile that carries luggage or shopping or tools; "he put his golf bag in the trunk" [syn: luggage compartment, automobile trunk]
a long flexible snout as of an elephant [syn: proboscis]
Wikipedia
The trunk ( North America and Jamaica) or boot (Commonwealth English) of a car is the vehicle's main storage compartment. In South Asia the trunk is usually called a dickie/dicky or slang diggy.
Trunk may refer to:
In biology:
- Elephant trunk, the proboscis of an elephant
- Trunk (anatomy), synonym for torso
- Trunk (botany), a tree's central superstructure
Containers:
- Trunk (car), a large storage compartment
- Trunk (luggage)
- Trunk (motorcycle), a storage compartment
Computing:
- Trunk (software), in revision control
- Virtual LAN, a trunk port
Other uses:
- "Trunks" were a group of airlines officially sanctioned by the United States Civil Aeronautics Board in the years prior to deregulation consisting of "the Big Four" airlines and the smaller BN, CS, CO, NA, NE, NW, WA along with Capital Airlines, Colonial Airlines, and Mid-Continent Airlines, permitted to operate a system of air route networks.
- Trunk, 2013 album by Ulf Lundell
- Trunk line, in telecommunications, a system of shared network access
- Trunk shot, auto-trunk camera work
- Trunk Records, a record label
- Trunk road, a major road, usually connecting two or more population or commercial centers
- Trunk show, a merchandising event
In botany, trunk (or bole) refers to the main wooden axis of a tree, which is an important diagnostic feature in tree identification, and which often differs markedly from the bottom of the trunk to the top, depending on the species. The trunk is the most important part of the tree for timber production.
Trunks occur both in "true" woody plants as well as non-woody plants such as palms and other monocots, though the internal physiology is different in each case. In all plants, trunks thicken over time due to formation of secondary growth (or in monocots, pseudo-secondary growth). Trunks can be vulnerable to damage, including sunburn. Trunks which are cut down in logging are generally called logs and if cut to a specific length bolts.
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A trunk, also known as a travel trunk, is a large cuboid container for holding clothes and other personal belongings, generally about 30 inches to 36 inches (76 cm to 91 cm) long with varying widths of 16 to 22 inches (41 to 56 cm) and various heights. They were most commonly used for extended periods away from home, such as for boarding school, or long trips abroad. Most trunks are now used as either furniture such as glass-covered coffee-tables or decorative storage for everything from blankets and linens to memorabilia and military paraphernalia. Trunks are differentiated from chests by their more rugged construction due to their intended use as luggage, instead of the latter's pure storage.
Among the many styles of trunks there are Jenny Lind, Saratoga, monitor, steamer or Cabin, barrel- staves, octagon or bevel-top, wardrobe, dome-top, barrel-top, wall trunks, and even full dresser trunks. These differing styles often only lasted for a decade or two as well, and—along with the hardware—can be extremely helpful in dating an unmarked trunk.
In the field of software development, trunk refers to the unnamed branch (version) of a file tree under revision control. The trunk is usually meant to be the base of a project on which development progresses. If developers are working exclusively on the trunk, it always contains the latest cutting-edge version of the project, but therefore may also be the most unstable version. Another approach is to split a branch off the trunk, implement changes in that branch and merge the changes back into the trunk when the branch has proven to be stable and working. Depending on development mode and commit policy the trunk may contain the most stable or the least stable or something-in-between version. Other terms for trunk include baseline, mainline, and master, though in some cases these are used with similar but distinct senses – see Revision control: Common vocabulary. The trunk is also sometimes loosely referred to as HEAD, but properly head refers not to a branch, but to the most recent commit on a given branch, and both the trunk and each named branch has its own head.
Often main developer work takes place in the trunk and stable versions are branched, and occasional bug-fixes are merged from branches to the trunk. When development of future versions is done in non-trunk branches, it is usually done for projects that do not change often, or where a change is expected to take a long time to develop until it will be ready for incorporating in the trunk.
Trunk is a 2013 Ulf Lundell album.
Usage examples of "trunk".
Carrying three of the children, Nila the elephant ambled past with her trunk curled around a bundle of hay.
He travelled by jeep through an invariable terrain of architectonic vegetation where no wind lifted the fronds of palms as ponderous as if they had been sculpted out of viridian gravity at the beginning of time and then abandoned, whose trunks were so heavy they did not seem to rise into the air but, instead, drew the oppressive sky down upon the forest like a coverlid of burnished metal.
The arrowheads were barbless mild steel, honed to a needlepoint for penetration, and one of the guerrillas had stood off thirty paces and sunk one of these arrows twenty inches into the fleshy fibrous trunk of a baobab tree.
We also saw on our way the trunk of a tree barked in long strips and splintered deeply.
And a wooden cottage with a thatched roof and barkless tree trunks for a doorframe would certainly have offended his sensibilities.
At this major crossroads was a gallows tree, a huge oak held together by brass hoops bolted around the pitted and barkless trunk it had been dead for the last ten years.
Perched on a jutting eminence, and half shrouded in the bushes which clothed it, the silent fisherman took his place, while his fly was made to kiss the water in capricious evolutions, such as the experienced angler knows how to employ to beguile the wary victim from close cove, or gloomy hollow, or from beneath those decaying trunks of overthrown trees which have given his brood a shelter from immemorial time.
One could almost hear the tittering laughter of women: berouged strumpets, the storytellers leered, playthings of Yankee financiers, scarlet women who had packed their trunks with fine dresses they expected to wear at dances in Richmond.
He heard something moving in front of him, the dead leaves betraying each step, and he stepped forward as quickly as he dared, craning his neck to see beyond the thick trunks just before him.
This agreed to, Herbert, Neb, and Pencroft, after having torn three sticks from the trunk of a young fir, followed Top, who was bounding about among the long grass.
And certainly, pedestrians, hindered at each step by bushes, caught by creepers, barred by trunks of trees, did not shine beside those supple animals, who, bounding from branch to branch, were hindered by nothing on their course.
And yet suddenly there it was in his hand, wet and coarse and strong, and when they caught hold of the branchless trunk of a hundred-year-old oak that stood in back of the hotel, he was able to tie Madge on.
Leaving the nearly branchless trunk for somebody else to roll in, Catalan took aim at the next ballyhoo and brought it down too.
The trees were giants, rising branchless to far above their heads, the trunks aglow with moss.
Its trunk, branchless for sixty feet, was too thick to climb, but he found a younger and slimmer tree, up which he could squirm and from its upper branches traverse to the other.