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trunk
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)
- (heading, biological) Part of a body.
- The usually single, more or less upright part of a tree, between the roots and the branches: the tree trunk.
- The torso.
- 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.
- (heading) 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- (US, Canada, automotive) The luggage storage compartment of a sedan/saloon style car; a boot
- 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.
- (heading) A channel for flow of some kind.
- (US, telecommunications) A circuit between telephone switchboards or other switching equipment.
- A chute or conduit, or a watertight shaft connecting two or more decks.
- 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.
- (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.
- 13 March, 1623, James Howell, "To the Lord Viscount Col. from Madrid" in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ
- (mining) A flume or sluice in which ores are separated from the slimes in which they are contained.
- (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.
- The main line or body of anything.
- (transport) A main line in a river, canal, railroad, or highway system.
- (architecture) The part of a pilaster between the base and capital, corresponding to the shaft of a column.
- 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.
- (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)
- (transitive, obsolete) To lop off; to curtail; to truncate.
- (transitive, mining) To extract (ores) from the slimes in which they are contained, by means of a trunk.
- (telecommunications) To provide simultaneous network access to multiple clients by sharing a set of circuits, carriers, channels, or frequencies.
Anagrams
- K-turn
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twissel
English
Alternative forms
- twistle, twissell
Etymology
From Middle English twisel, twisil, from Old English twisel (“forked, double”), from Old English twisla (“confluence, junction”), from Proto-Germanic *twisil? (“fork, bifurcation”), from Proto-Indo-European *dwis- (“twice, in two”). Cognate with German Zwiesel (“fork”).
Adjective
twissel (comparative more twissel, superlative most twissel)
- (obsolete) Double; twofold.
Synonyms
- duplicate, twosome; see also Thesaurus:twofold
Noun
twissel (plural twissels)
- (rare) A double fruit or a pair of like things growing on a tree.
- 16thC, George Turberville, The Louer, in 1810, Samuel Johnson (series editor & biographies), Alexander Chalmers (additional biographies), The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume II, page 599,
- As from a tree we sundrie times espie / A twissell grow by Nature's subtile might / And beeing two, for cause they grow so nie / For one are tane, and so appeare in sight;
- 16thC, George Turberville, The Louer, in 1810, Samuel Johnson (series editor & biographies), Alexander Chalmers (additional biographies), The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume II, page 599,
- (rare) That part of a tree where the branches separate from the trunk or bole; a fork.
Anagrams
- Wiltses, witless
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