Definitions for trunk
trʌŋktrunk

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. trunk, tree trunk, bolenoun

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

2. trunknoun

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

3. torso, trunk, bodynoun

   the body excluding the head and neck and limbs

   "they moved their arms and legs and bodies"

4. luggage compartment, automobile trunk, trunknoun

   compartment in an automobile that carries luggage or shopping or tools

   "he put his golf bag in the trunk"

5. proboscis, trunknoun

   a long flexible snout as of an elephant

WiktionaryRate this definition:3.0 / 1 vote

1. trunknoun

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

2. trunknoun

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

3. trunknoun

   The torso.

4. trunknoun

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

5. trunknoun

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

6. trunknoun

   A circuit between telephone switchboards or other switching equipment.

7. trunknoun

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

8. trunknoun

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

9. trunknoun

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

10. trunkadjective

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

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

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Trunknoun

   Etymology: truncus, Lat. tronc, Fr.

   1. The body of a tree.

   He was
   The ivy, which had hid my princely trunk,
   And suckt my verdure out on’t. William Shakespeare.

   About the mossy trunk I wound me soon;
   For high from ground the branches would require
   Thy utmost reach. John Milton, Par. Lost, b. ix.

   Creeping ’twixt ’em all, the mantling vine
   Does round their trunks her purple clusters twine. Dryden.

   Some of the largest trees have seeds no bigger than some diminutive plants, and yet every seed is a perfect plant with a trunk, branches, and leaves, inclosed in a shell. Richard Bentley.

   2. The body without the limbs of an animal.

   The charm and venom which they drunk,
   Their blood with secret filth infected hath,
   Being diffused through the senseless trunk. Fairy Qu. b. ii.

   Thou bring’st me happiness and peace, son John;
   But health, alack, with youthful wings is flown
   From this bare, wither’d trunk. William Shakespeare, Henry IV.

   3. The main body of any thing.

   The large trunks of the veins discharge the refluent blood into the next adjacent trunk, and so on to the heart. John Ray.

   4. [ Tronc, French.] A chest for cloaths; a small chest commonly lined with paper.

   Neither press, coffer, chest, trunk, well, vault, but he hath an abstract for the remembrance of such places. William Shakespeare.

   Some odd fantastick lord would fain
   Carry in trunks, and all my drudgery do. Dryden.

   Where a young man learned to dance, there happened to stand an old trunk in the room, the idea of which had so mixed itself with the turns of all his dances, that, though he could dance excellently well, yet it was only whilst that trunk was there; nor could he perform well in any other place, unless that, or some such other trunk, had its due position in the room. John Locke.

   Your poem sunk,
   And sent in quires to line a trunk:
   If still you be dispos’d to rhyme,
   Go try your hand a second time. Jonathan Swift.

   5. [ Trompe, Fr.] The proboscis of an elephant, or other animal.

   Leviathian that at his gills
   Draws in, and at his trunk spouts out a sea. John Milton.

   When elephant ’gainst elephant did rear
   His trunk, and castles justled in the air,
   My sword thy way to victory had shown. Dryden.

   6. A long tube through which pellets of clay are blown.

   In rolls of parchment trunks, the mouth being laid to the one end and the ear to the other, the sound is heard much farther than in the open air. Francis Bacon, Nat. Hist.

   In a shooting trunk, the longer it is to a certain limit, the swifter and more forcibly the air drives the pellet. John Ray.

2. To Trunkverb

   To truncate; to main; to lop. Obsolete.

   Etymology: trunco, Lat.

   Large streams of blood out of the trunked stock
   Forth gushed, like water streams from riven rock. Fairy Q.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Trunknoun

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

2. Trunknoun

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

3. Trunknoun

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

4. Trunknoun

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

5. Trunknoun

   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. Trunknoun

   the proboscis of an elephant

7. Trunknoun

   the proboscis of an insect

8. Trunknoun

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

9. Trunknoun

   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. Trunknoun

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

11. Trunknoun

    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. Trunknoun

    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. Trunkverb

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

14. Trunkverb

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

FreebaseRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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 DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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 TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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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1. trunk

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EntomologyRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Trunk

   the thorax as a whole: the body.

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. TRUNK

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Trunk is ranked #29366 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Trunk surname appeared 805 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Trunk.
   
   93.6% or 754 total occurrences were White.
   3.4% or 28 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   1.1% or 9 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   0.9% or 8 total occurrences were Asian.

Matched Categories

1. • Body Part
   • Compartment
   • Luggage
   • Snout
   • Stem

British National Corpus

1. Nouns Frequency

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

How to pronounce trunk?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

   British

   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

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   Neerja

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   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

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   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

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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. 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.

2. 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.

3. Ralph Waldo Emerson:

   I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.

4. Ashan Azad:

   I only touched one guy, I smacked him, I saw Haider Anjam take out the wooden cricket bats from the trunk.

5. Casino:

   Nicky A lot of holes in the desert, and a lot of problems are buried in those holes. But you gotta do it right. I mean, you gotta have the hole already dug before you show up with a package in the trunk. Otherwise, you're talking about a half-hour to forty-five minutes worth of digging. And who knows who's gonna come along in that time Pretty soon, you gotta dig a few more holes. You could be there all f***in' night.

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