trunk
/tɹʌŋk/
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; Part of a body.; The usually single, more or less upright part of a tree, between the roots and the branches
- plural
- trunks
Meanings
- 1
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
Let's put this in the trunk.
Tatoeba · CK · CC BY 2.0 FR
Put your bag in the trunk.
Tatoeba · CK · CC BY 2.0 FR
- 2
Part of a body.; The usually single, more or less upright part of a tree, between the roots and the branches
- 3
Part of a body.; The torso; especially, the human torso
- 4
Part of a body.; 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
- 5
A container.; 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
- 6
A container.; The luggage storage compartment of a sedan/saloon-style car
- 7
A container.; A storage compartment fitted behind the seat of a motorcycle
- 8
A channel for flow of some kind.; A major circuit between telephone switchboards or other switching equipmentrare
- 9
A channel for flow of some kind.; A chute or conduit, or a watertight shaft connecting two or more decksrare
- 10
A channel for flow of some kind.; 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, etcrare