Definitions for trunk
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Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. trunk, tree trunk, bole(noun)

   the main stem of a tree; usually covered with bark; the bole is usually the part that is commercially useful for lumber

2. trunk(noun)

   luggage consisting of a large strong case used when traveling or for storage

3. torso, trunk, body(noun)

   the body excluding the head and neck and limbs

   "they moved their arms and legs and bodies"

4. luggage compartment, automobile trunk, trunk(noun)

   compartment in an automobile that carries luggage or shopping or tools

   "he put his golf bag in the trunk"

5. proboscis, trunk(noun)

   a long flexible snout as of an elephant

Wiktionary(3.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. trunk(Noun)

   The (usually single) upright part of a tree, between the roots and the branches: the tree trunk.

   Etymology: From trunke, from tronc, from truncus, from truncus.

2. trunk(Noun)

   A large suitcase, usually requiring two persons to lift and with a hinged lid.

   Etymology: From trunke, from tronc, from truncus, from truncus.

3. trunk(Noun)

   The torso.

   Etymology: From trunke, from tronc, from truncus, from truncus.

4. trunk(Noun)

   The extended and articulated nose or nasal organ of an elephant.

   Etymology: From trunke, from tronc, from truncus, from truncus.

5. trunk(Noun)

   The luggage storage compartment of a sedan/saloon style car.

   Etymology: From trunke, from tronc, from truncus, from truncus.

6. trunk(Noun)

   A circuit between telephone switchboards or other switching equipment.

   Etymology: From trunke, from tronc, from truncus, from truncus.

7. trunk(Noun)

   a chute or conduit, or a watertight shaft connecting two or more decks.

   Etymology: From trunke, from tronc, from truncus, from truncus.

8. trunk(Noun)

   in software projects under source control: the most current source tree, from which the latest unstable builds (so-called "trunk builds") are compiled.

   Etymology: From trunke, from tronc, from truncus, from truncus.

9. trunk(Noun)

   A main line in a river, canal, railroad, or highway system.

   Etymology: From trunke, from tronc, from truncus, from truncus.

10. trunk(Adjective)

    Pertaining to a main line in a river, canal, railroad, or highway system.

    Etymology: From trunke, from tronc, from truncus, from truncus.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Trunk(noun)

   the stem, or body, of a tree, apart from its limbs and roots; the main stem, without the branches; stock; stalk

2. Trunk(noun)

   the body of an animal, apart from the head and limbs

3. Trunk(noun)

   the main body of anything; as, the trunk of a vein or of an artery, as distinct from the branches

4. Trunk(noun)

   that part of a pilaster which is between the base and the capital, corresponding to the shaft of a column

5. 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

6. Trunk(noun)

   the proboscis of an elephant

7. Trunk(noun)

   the proboscis of an insect

8. Trunk(noun)

   a long tube through which pellets of clay, p/as, etc., are driven by the force of the breath

9. 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

10. Trunk(noun)

    a flume or sluice in which ores are separated from the slimes in which they are contained

11. 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

12. 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

13. Trunk(verb)

    to lop off; to curtail; to truncate; to maim

14. Trunk(verb)

    to extract (ores) from the slimes in which they are contained, by means of a trunk. See Trunk, n., 9

Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Trunk

   Trunk or torso is an anatomical term for the central part of the many animal bodies from which extend the neck and limbs. The trunk includes the thorax and abdomen.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Trunk

   trungk, n. the stem of a tree: the body of an animal apart from the limbs: the main body of anything: anything long and hollow: the proboscis of an elephant: the shaft of a column, the dado or body of a pedestal: a water-course of planks leading from the race to the water-wheel: a large hollow piston in which a connecting-rod plays: a portable box or chest for clothes, &c., esp. on a journey: a flume, penstock.—adjs. Trunc′al, pertaining to the trunk, principal; Trunked, having a trunk: (Spens.) beheaded.—ns. Trunk′-fish, the coffer-fish; Trunk′ful, as much as will fill a trunk; Trunk′-hose, -breech′es, large hose or breeches formerly worn over the lower part of the body and the upper part of the legs; Trunk′-line, the main-line of a railway, canal, &c.; Trunk′-road, a main-road; Trunk′-sleeve (Shak.), a sleeve with the upper part puffed; Trunk′-work, work involving secrecy as by means of a trunk. [O. Fr. tronc—L. truncus, a stock—truncus, maimed.]

Dictionary of Nautical Terms(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. trunk

   (See RUDDER-TRUNK.) Also, a large species of turtle. Also, a place for keeping fish in. Also, an iron hoop with a bag, used to catch crabs and lobsters.--Fire-trunks. Funnels fixed in fire-ships under the shrouds, to convey the flames to the masts, rigging, and sails.

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Entomology(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Trunk

   the thorax as a whole: the body.

British National Corpus

1. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'trunk' in Nouns Frequency: #2778

How to pronounce trunk?

1. Alex

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of trunk in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of trunk in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of trunk in a Sentence

1. Tom Robbins:

   When she was a small girl, Amanda hid a ticking clock in an old, rotten tree trunk. It drove woodpeckers crazy. Ignoring tasty bugs all around them, they just about beat their brains out trying to get at the clock. Years later, Amanda used the woodpecker experiment as a model for understanding capitalism, Communism, Christianity, and all other systems that traffic in future rewards rather than in present realities.

2. Isabel Maples:

   Perishable foods should not be out for more than one hour when it's hot out, and that includes the time traveling to the beach if the food is unrefrigerated in your vehicle's trunk.

3. Lucinda Marker:

   The rehab months were unbelievable, it was like Paul Gaylord was Paul Gaylord, learning how to do everything again. We learned how to lift the wheelchair into the trunk of a car together. We became a team at living life. It really brought us so much closer together.

4. Pat Stayton:

   Both of the dogs reacted to the trunk of the silver Nissan that the defendant had driven and that the blue laundry basket was recovered from, indicating that the dogs were responding to the scent of human decomposition in the vehicle.

5. Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill:

   The shocking discovery of 2,411 medically preserved fetal remains in Illinois, left in a garage and in the trunk of a car, was horrifying to anyone with normal sensibilities.

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