different between bonnet vs trunk

English

Alternative forms

• (Scottish brimless hat): bunnet

Etymology

From Middle English bonet, from Middle French bonet (Modern French bonnet), from Old French bonet (“material from which hats are made”), from Frankish *bunni (“that which is bound”), from Proto-Germanic *bundij? (“bundle”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?end?- (“to tie”). Compare also Late Latin abbonis, obbonis (“ribbon of a headdress”), also of Germanic origin, from Frankish *obbunni, from *ob- (“above, over”) + *bunni. Cognate with Old High German gibunt (“band, ribbon”), Middle Dutch bont (“bundle, truss”), Gothic ???????????????????????????? (gabundi, “bond”). More at over, bundle.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?b?n.?t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?b?n.?t/
• Rhymes: -?n?t

Noun

bonnet (plural bonnets)

1. A type of hat, once worn by women or children, held in place by ribbons tied under the chin.
2. A traditional Scottish woollen brimless cap; a bunnet.
3. (by extension) The polishing head of a power buffer, often made of wool.
4. (Australia, Britain, New Zealand, South Africa, automotive) The hinged cover over the engine of a motor car; a hood.
5. (nautical) A length of canvas attached to a fore-and-aft sail to increase the pulling power.
6. (obsolete, slang) An accomplice of a gambler, auctioneer, etc., who entices others to bet or to bid.
7. The second stomach of a ruminant.
8. Anything resembling a bonnet (hat) in shape or use.
   1. A small defence work at a salient angle; or a part of a parapet elevated to screen the other part from enfilade fire.
   2. A metallic canopy, or projection, over an opening, as a fireplace, or a cowl or hood to increase the draught of a chimney, etc.
   3. A frame of wire netting over a locomotive chimney, to prevent escape of sparks.
   4. A roofing over the cage of a mine, to protect its occupants from objects falling down the shaft.
   5. In pumps, a metal covering for the openings in the valve chambers.
   6. (mycology) A mushroom of the genus Mycena.

Synonyms

• (Scottish brimless hat): tam o'shanter
• (cover over the engine of a motor car): hood (US, Canada)

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Scottish Gaelic: bonaid

Translations

Verb

bonnet (third-person singular simple present bonnets, present participle bonneting, simple past and past participle bonneted)

1. (transitive) To put a bonnet on.
2. (obsolete) To take off the bonnet or cap as a mark of respect; to uncover.
3. (dated, transitive) To pull the bonnet or cap down over the head of.

   Synonym: block

See also

• boot

Anagrams

• Benton, bent on

French

Etymology

From Middle French bonet, from Old French bonet (“material from which hats are made”), from Frankish *bunni (“that which is bound”), from Proto-Germanic *bundij? (“bundle”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?end?- (“to tie”). Compare also Late Latin abbonis, obbonis (“ribbon of a headdress”), also of Germanic origin, from Frankish *obbunni, from *ob- (“above, over”) + *bunni. Cognates: see above, English bonnet. More at over, bundle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?.n?/

Noun

bonnet m (plural bonnets)

1. beanie
2. hat, cap
3. bonnet (for baby)
4. a knitted hat, usually woollen
5. cup (of bra)

Derived terms

• blanc bonnet, bonnet blanc
• bonnet blanc, blanc bonnet
• bonnet d'âne
• bonnet de nuit
• bonnet phrygien
• bonnet rouge
• gros bonnet
• opiner du bonnet

Descendants

• ? Portuguese: boné
• ? Spanish: bonete

Further reading

• “bonnet” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

From Middle English tronke, trunke, borrowed 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.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /t???k/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /t???k/, [t?????k], [t???k]
• Rhymes: -??k

Noun

trunk (plural trunks)

1. (heading, biological) Part of a body.
   1. The usually single, more or less upright part of a tree, between the roots and the branches: the tree trunk.
   2. The torso.
   3. 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.
2. (heading) A container.
   1. 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.

      • 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.

   2. 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.
   3. (US, Canada, automotive) The luggage storage compartment of a sedan/saloon style car; a boot
3. (heading) A channel for flow of some kind.
   1. (US, telecommunications) A circuit between telephone switchboards or other switching equipment.
   2. A chute or conduit, or a watertight shaft connecting two or more decks.
   3. 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.
   4. (archaic) A long tube through which pellets of clay, peas, etc., are driven by the force of the breath. A peashooter
      • 13 March, 1623, James Howell, "To the Lord Viscount Col. from Madrid" in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ

        He shot Sugar Plums at them out of a Trunk.

   5. (mining) A flume or sluice in which ores are separated from the slimes in which they are contained.
4. (software engineering) In software projects under source control: the most current source tree, from which the latest unstable builds (so-called "trunk builds") are compiled.
5. The main line or body of anything.
   1. (transport) A main line in a river, canal, railroad, or highway system.
   2. (architecture) The part of a pilaster between the base and capital, corresponding to the shaft of a column.
6. 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.
7. (in the plural) Short for swimming trunks.

Synonyms

• (luggage storage compartment of a sedan/saloon style car): boot (UK, Aus), dicky (India)
• (upright part of a tree): tree trunk
• (nose of an elephant): proboscis

Hyponyms

• (a large suitcase; a chest for holding goods): footlocker

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• trunk in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• trunk in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Verb

trunk (third-person singular simple present trunks, present participle trunking, simple past and past participle trunked)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To lop off; to curtail; to truncate.
2. (transitive, mining) To extract (ores) from the slimes in which they are contained, by means of a trunk.
3. (telecommunications) To provide simultaneous network access to multiple clients by sharing a set of circuits, carriers, channels, or frequencies.

Anagrams

• K-turn