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Definition: Trunk |
TrunkNoun1. The main stem of a tree; usually covered with bark; the bole is usually the part that is commercially useful for lumber. 2. Luggage consisting of a large strong case used when traveling or for storage. 3. The body excluding the head and neck and limbs; "they moved their arms and legs and bodies". 4. Compartment in an automobile that carries luggage or shopping or tools (`boot' is British usage). 5. A long flexible snout as of an elephant. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "trunk" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Etymology: Trunk \Trunk\, noun. [French expression tronc, from Latin expression truncus, from truncus maimed, mutilated; perhaps akin to torquere to twist wrench, and English torture. Trunk in the sense of proboscis is from French trompe (the same word as trompe trumpet), but has been confused in English with trunk the stem of tree (see Trump trumpet). Compare to Truncate.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Aerospace | = bus. (references) |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of trunks, foretells journeys and ill luck. To pack your trunk, denotes that you will soon go on a pleasant trip. To see the contents of a trunk thrown about in disorder, foretells quarrels, and a hasty journey from which only dissatisfaction will accrue. Empty trunks foretell disappointment in love and marriage. For a drummer to check his trunk, is an omen of advancement and comfort. If he finds that his trunk is too small for his wares, he will soon hear of his promotion, and his desires will reach gratification. For a young woman to dream that she tries to unlock her trunk and can't, signifies that she will make an effort to win some wealthy person, but by a misadventure she will lose her chance. If she fails to lock her trunk, she will be disappointed in making a desired trip. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Electrical Engineering | In crossbar systems, a circuit extending between frames of a switching unit and terminated in a switching device on each frame. Source: European Union. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | The main stem of the vine between the soil and the first branches. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A vertical watertight casing running from upper to lower deck, whereby access can be gained from above upper deck to a compartment below lower deck without disturbing adjacent spaces between the two decks. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| A tree stem once it has grown to substantial thickness, roughly, capable of yielding saw timber, veneer logs or large poles. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Geography | Column or cloudy cone under the base of a Cumulonimbus with a spout. Source: European Union. (references) |
Medicine | A cancer toxin with some similarity in its amino acid sequence to lymphotoxin(about 30% homology). It is derived from activated macrophages and, like lymphokine, it has cytotoxic activity against tumor cells, but little or no activity against normal cells. Source: European Union. (references) |
| The main stem from which branches spring. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Mining | A. A long, narrow, inclined box in which fine ore is separated from impurities b. A launder for conveying slimes, etc c. To separate slimes by means of a trunk for further treatmen. (references) |
Post & Telecom | A circuit connecting a sub-centre with its parent switching centre. Source: European Union. (references) |
| The connecting circuit between selectors of different rank in an automatic exchange, or two parts of a manual exchange. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| A line connecting two exchanges in the same multi-exchange area. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| A circuit or channel connecting two exchanges or two switching devices; a circuit capable of being switched at both ends and provided with the necessary terminating and signalling equipment. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Slang in 1811 | TRUNK. A nose. How fares your old trunk? does your nose still stand fast? an allusion to the proboscis or trunk of an elephant. To shove a trunk: to introduce one's self unasked into any place or company. Trunk-maker like; more noise than work. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In botany, trunk refers to the main structural member of a tree that is supported by and directly attached to the roots and which in turn supports the branches. The trunk is also often called the bole. The trunk is covered by the bark, which is an important diagnostic feature in tree identification, and which often differs markedly from the bottom of the trunk to the top, depending on the species. The trunk, or bole, is the most important part of the tree for timber production. Also see log.
The trunk or torso of the human body is the body without the head, arms and legs.
In American English, the trunk of a car is a compartment used for storage space, usually placed at the car's rear.
In telecommunication, the term trunk has the following meanings:
1. In a communications network, a single transmission channel between two points that are switching centers or nodes, or both.
2. [A] circuit between switchboards or other switching equipment, as distinguished from circuits which extend between central office switching equipment and information origination/termination equipment.
Note: Trunks may be used to interconnect switches, such as major, minor, public and private switches, to form networks.
Source: from Federal Standard 1037C and from MIL-STD-188 and from the Code of Federal Regulations, Telecommunications Parts 0-199
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Trunk."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| TR | English | Trunk | Meteorology & Standards, International Organizations |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: TrunkSynonyms: automobile trunk (n), body (n), bole (n), boot (n), luggage compartment (n), proboscis (n), torso (n), tree trunk (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Cause | Rudiment. egg, germ, embryo, bud, root, radix radical, etymon, nucleus, seed, stem, stock, stirps, trunk, tap-root, gemmule, radicle, semen, sperm. |
Clothing | Shoe, pump, boot, slipper, sandal, galoche, galoshes, patten, clog; sneakers, running shoes, hiking boots; high-low; Blucher boot, wellington boot, Hessian boot, jack boot, top boot; Balmoral; arctics, bootee, bootikin, brogan, chaparajos; chavar, chivarras, chivarros; gums, larrigan, rubbers, showshoe, stogy, veldtschoen, legging, buskin, greave, galligaskin, gamache, gamashes, moccasin, gambado, gaiter, spatterdash, brogue, antigropelos; stocking, hose, gaskins, trunk hose, sock; hosiery. |
Paternity | House, stem, trunk, tree, stock, stirps, pedigree, lineage, line, family, tribe, sept, race, clan; genealogy, descent, extraction, birth, ancestry; forefathers, forbears, patriarchs. |
Receptacle | Chest, box, coffer, caddy, case, casket, pyx, pix, caisson, desk, bureau, reliquary; trunk, portmanteau, band-box, valise; grip, grip sack; skippet, vasculum; boot, imperial; vache; cage, manger, rack. |
Whole | Bulk, mass, lump, tissue, staple, body, compages; trunk, torso, bole, hull, hulk, skeleton greater part, major part, best part, principal part, main part; essential part; (importance).; lion's share, Benjamin's mess; the long and the short; nearly, all, almost all. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Trunk |
| English words defined with "trunk": trunk lid. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "trunk": CLR trunk ♦ elephant trunk ♦ intermachine trunk testing, intraoffice trunk ♦ record completing trunk, recording completing trunk ♦ special grade network trunk ♦ tie trunk, trunk roadway, trunk utilisation report, trunk utilization report. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "trunk": valise. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Trunk" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. German (drink), Swedish (trunk). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I ambushed him, hit him in the head with a frying pan and put him in the trunk so he wouldn't get hurt (Who Framed Roger Rabbit; writing credit: Gary K. Wolf; Jeffrey Price) Kathleen, before you start counting the rings around my trunk, I think you should thank your lucky stars that a cheap, parasitic slug, such as yourself, is allowed even to cohabitate under the same roof with a woman of my caliber and credentials (Filthy Rich; writing credit: Barry E. Blitzer; Linda Bloodworth-Thomason) Now I aska you one. What has a trunk, but no key, weighs 2,000 pounds and lives in a circus (Duck Soup; writing credit: Bert Kalmar ; Harry Ruby) In my trunk. (The Faculty; writing credit: David Wechter; Bruce Kimmel) Paulie! Get the bolt cutters from out of the trunk! (The Sopranos; writing credit: Isabel Clara-Simo; Ramón De España) | |
Lyrics | We'll pack a lunch And stuff you in the trunk Earl (Goodbye Earl; performing artist: Dixie Chicks) Is a suitcase and a trunk (House of the Rising Sun; performing artist: The Animals) | |
Clever | We treat this world of ours as though we had a spare in the trunk. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Trunk to Cairo (1966) Case of the Elephant's Trunk (1965) The Trunk (1960) Punch Trunk (1953) Trunk Conveyor (1952) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Smallpox lesions on skin of trunk. Photo taken in Bangladesh. Credit: CDC. |  | Great Caspar Signal - built around tree trunk Note boatswain chair transporting man to top 135-foot signal --- main wood scaffold supports instrument Tree trunk supports small scaffolding and observer at top Western terminus of 39th Parallel Survey. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Station Pen in Washington Triangulation party of O. B. French - occupied by J. S. Hill Instrument was mounted on tree trunk Instrument remained steady in azimuth but unsteady in level. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | A "lava tree" formed by lava cooling around the tree trunk - some like this one. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Jurassic Park? Nope - just a moss-covered tree trunk. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | ACE Basin National Estuarine Research Reserve. Flood gate for rice trunk. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |
 | Thick trunk of Chrysothamnus neausosus ssp. hololeuicusRabbit brushBrush, Wildflower. Credit: Roger Rosentreter. |  | Medicine - Military - Equipment : Results of trunk test after dropping containers to assess damage to different types. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | She threw herself down beside the battered little trunk and wept. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Man carrying trunk across plank. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Tree trunk" by Janos Rusiczki Commentary: "Sad looking tree wannabe..." | "Trunk of tree" by Sean Fenning Commentary: "Country road tree." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
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Lao-Tzu | A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | In the midst of the grass you notice an uprooted trunk, lying on the ground, but still growing green |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | At the willow he knew there would be shade, at least one hard bar of absolute shade thrown by the trunk, since the sun had passed its zenith |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Rapid movements of the arms, legs, and trunk may also occur. (references) | |
The spasms usually involve the muscles of the neck, trunk, and extremities. (references) | ||
The ataxia gradually worsens and slowly spreads to the arms and then the trunk. (references) | ||
Business | Trunk roads are managed by the Highways Agency. (references) | |
This is particularly necessary for trunk roads that generate shadow tolls. (references) | ||
The total number of distribution and trunk cable is approximately 43,000Km. and 15,000Km. Respectively. (references) | ||
Economic History | Sri Lanka | These trunk roads presently are not wide enough for standard two-way traffic. (references) |
Kazakhstan | Areas to be modernized in the framework of this program include: wireless communications, paging, and trunk communications. (references) | |
Australia | On a larger scale, of the latest to make an entry into the trunk routes, Impulse Airlines and Virgin Blue, only Virgin remains. (references) | |
Human Rights | Macedonia | On August 13, police severely beat four ethnic-Albanian men at the Skopje hospital reportedly after finding weapons in the trunk of their car. (references) |
Political Economy | PAKISTAN | Under the WTO Agreement on Basic Telecommunications Services, Pakistan made commitments to provide market access and national treatment for all local, domestic long distance and international basic voice telecommunications services and private leased circuit services as of January 1, 2004. E-mail, Internet, electronic information services, data communication network services, trunk radio services, cellular mobile telephone services, audiotex, voice mail and card-pay services, close user group for banking operations, international satellite operators for domestic data communication, paging services, vehicle tracking system and global mobile personal communication systems are now open for 100 percent foreign ownership at the onset of the investment, which has to be reduced to 60 percent within five years. (references) |
Travel | Indonesia | Phone service is good along the main business thoroughfares and the newer residential areas, which are served by fiber optic trunk lines. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | PROBOSCIS, n. The rudimentary organ of an elephant which serves him in place of the knife-and-fork that Evolution has as yet denied him. For purposes of humor it is popularly called a trunk. Asked how he knew that an elephant was going on a journey, the illustrious Jo. Miller cast a reproachful look upon his tormentor, and answered, absently: "When it is ajar," and threw himself from a high promontory into the sea. Thus perished in his pride the most famous humorist of antiquity, leaving to mankind a heritage of woe! No successor worthy of the title has appeared, though Mr. Edward bok, of The Ladies' Home Journal, is much respected for the purity and sweetness of his personal character. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Trunk" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 94.14% of the time. "Trunk" is used about 699 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 94.14% | 658 | 9,954 |
| Noun (proper) | 4.29% | 30 | 63,341 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.14% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.29% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 0.14% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 699 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "trunk" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Trunk | Last name | 200 | 34,522 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "trunk": Air trunk ♦ analog trunk ♦ analogue trunk ♦ atrioventricular trunk ♦ automobile trunk ♦ Brachiocephalic Trunk ♦ cabin trunk ♦ carve one's name on the trunk of a tree ♦ celiac trunk ♦ CLR trunk ♦ daytime trunk control ♦ elephant trunk ♦ elephant's trunk ♦ intermachine trunk testing ♦ intraoffice trunk ♦ killer trunk ♦ pulmonary trunk ♦ radial trunk road ♦ record completing trunk ♦ recording completing trunk ♦ saratoga trunk ♦ special grade network trunk ♦ subscriber trunk dialling ♦ Terrestrial Trunk Radio ♦ tie trunk ♦ tree trunk ♦ trunk air route ♦ trunk barring circuit ♦ trunk call ♦ trunk circuit ♦ trunk connections ♦ trunk cover ♦ Trunk engine ♦ trunk group ♦ trunk gyration ♦ trunk hose ♦ trunk lid ♦ trunk line ♦ trunk of an elephant ♦ Trunk piston ♦ trunk restricting device ♦ trunk road ♦ trunk route ♦ trunk sewer ♦ Trunk steamer ♦ trunk system ♦ Trunk turtle ♦ trunk utilisation report ♦ trunk utilization report ♦ wardrobe trunk. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "trunk": trunk-call, trunk-like, trunk-line call, trunk-load, trunk-owning, trunk-road, trunk-roads, trunk-seized, trunk-thick. | |
Ending with "trunk": tree-trunk, whole-trunk. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
trunk | 319 | flip flop show trunk | 23 |
monkey trunk | 189 | antique trunk | 22 |
tree trunk | 115 | antique steamer trunk | 21 |
college trunk | 100 | da in junk trunk | 21 |
trunk bay | 80 | wood trunk | 20 |
junk in the trunk | 78 | trunk restoration | 19 |
steamer trunk | 73 | car trunk | 18 |
storage trunk | 63 | bay john st trunk | 18 |
trunk coffee table | 57 | carbon fiber trunk | 18 |
eddie trunk | 55 | trunk bike rack | 17 |
trunk organizer | 54 | doll trunk | 16 |
down pull trunk | 51 | motorcycle trunk | 15 |
trunk hardware | 37 | pop trunk | 15 |
wicker trunk | 35 | line numbers phone trunk | 14 |
elephant trunk | 34 | commercial monkey trunk | 14 |
flip flop trunk | 33 | trunk tracker | 14 |
tack trunk | 30 | monkey suburban trunk | 14 |
trunk show | 28 | luggage trunk | 13 |
trunk table | 27 | junk trunk | 13 |
camp trunk | 25 | da junk n trunk | 13 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "trunk"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | stam (stem, tree-trunk, tribe), koffer. (various references) | |
Albanian | trung (body, bole, log, lump, opaque, skid, stem, stock, stump, torso), vend për plaçkat, valixhe (case, luggage, suitcase, travelling bag), sënduk (box, chest, coffer, hutch), portbagazh (boot), noçkë (ankle, knuckle, nose, Snoot, snout), mbathje sporti (trunks), linjë kryesore (artery), kryesor (arch, arterial, basal, capital, Cardinal, central, chief, focal, foremost, fundamental, general, governing, grand, great, key, keynote, leading, main, major, pivotal, predominant, premier, primal, primary, prime, principal, topmost), feçkë (proboscis, snout), bagazh (baggage, luggage, trap). (various references) | |
Arabic | قناة (aqueduct, canal, channel, chase, conduit, cut, ditch, duct, gutter, passage, path, pipe, rut, sluiceway, spile, trough, tube, water course, waterway), حقيبة كبيرة, ساق (bole, drive, leg, shank), سروال سباحة, صندوق السيارة (boot), جسم الفيل, جسم إنسان, جذع (body, mutilate, mutilation, stem, stock), رأس (apex, bean, cos, head, noggin, pate, point, poll, preside, superintend, tip, top, vertex), بنطلون رياضي قصير, بدن (body). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | торсо (torso), пън (billet, block, log, nog, stock, stub, stump), пътнически сандък, багажник (boot, luggage carrier, rack), магистрала (artery, magistral, parkway, thoroughfare, throughput, turnpike), вентилационна тръба (flue, uptake), голям куфар (portmanteau), дънер (butt, kerf, log, stock, stump), шахта (chute, pit, shaft, well), съществена част (linchpin), труп (body, cadaver, carcase, corpse, corpus, log, nog, stiff, subject, torso), туловище (barrel), централна част, хобот (proboscis, snout), ствол (bole, quill, shaft, shank, stem, stock), стъбло (peduncle, pivot, scape, shaft, shank, stalk, stock, tige), къси бричове от 16-17 век (trunk hose). (various references) | |
Catalan | maleta, bagul. (various references) | |
Chinese | 軀干 (torso), 軀幹 , 箱 (box, chest), 笥 (hamper), 篋 (portfolio), 树干 (trunks), 主幹 (core, main). (various references) | |
Czech | trup (body, Hull, shell, torso), peò, kufr (boot, case, suitcase), kmen stromu, chobot. (various references) | |
Danish | stamme (stem), kuffert. (various references) | |
Dutch | stam (clan, ethnic group, race, radical, root, stem, tree-trunk, tribe), slurf (proboscis), koffer (suitcase, valise), boomstam (stem, tree-trunk), bagageruimte (baggage rack, boot, rack). (various references) | |
Esperanto | trunko (stem), torso, rostro (proboscis), kofrujo, kofro, arbotrunko (stem, tree-trunk). (various references) | |
Faeroese | sevil (proboscis), kuffert (suitcase, valise), bulur (stem). (various references) | |
Farsi | چمدان بزرگ , کنده درخت , تنه (Body, Bulk, Corpus, Frame, Jostle, Push, Shove, Stem, Stock), صندوق (Bin, Box, Case, Chest, Coffer), خرطوم بینی انسان , بدنه ستون , بدنه (Body, Framework, Shaft). (various references) | |
Finnish | runko (frame, fuselage, hull, skeleton, stem). (various references) | |
French | tronc, malle, coffre, torse, trompe, souche (tribe), fût. (various references) | |
German | Koffer (bag, bags, case, chest, suitcase, trunks), Stamm (clan, ethnic group, permanent staff, permanent workforce, phylum, race, regular customers, regular team-members, regulars, root, stem, strain, tribe, troop), Rumpf (body, carcass, fuselage, hulk, Hull, nacelle, shell, torso), Rüssel (beak, proboscis, snout), Kofferraum (boot, luggage space), Torso (skeleton, torso), Baumstamm (bole, log, stem, tree trunk). (various references) | |
Greek | μπαούλο (chest), κιβώτιο (box, case, chest, container), κορμός (backbone, bust, flitch billet, shank, stem, web), προβοσκίδα (proboscis). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מזודה (bag, portmanteau, suitcase, valise), גוף (being, body, corpus, element, essence, matter, person, self), גו (back, torso), גזע (breed, race, stem, stock, strain), גדם (amputee, one handed, stub, stump). (various references) | |
Hungarian | törzs (body, clan, Hull, kin, parent stock, phylum, shaft, shank, staff, stem, stock, stub, stump, tribe). (various references) | |
Indonesian | peti (box, case, chest, hutch, kit, quod), celana pendek (short), batangan (bar, barrier, boom, by the bar, cross beam), batang (corpse, log, pole, rod, stem, stick), bagasi (baggage, luggage rack). (various references) | |
Irish | trunc. (various references) | |
Italian | tronco (body, bole, frustum, log, stem, stock, torso, tree-trunk), baule (portmanteau), torso (hull, rump, torso), bagagliaio (baggage car, boot, luggage van, luggage-van, rumble). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 胴体 (body, torso). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | トランク , くかん (bitter suffering, body, coldest time of the year, physique, section, torso), どうたい (as one flesh or body, body, conductor, movement, moving body, simultaneously, torso, vital), どうなか (torso), どう (body, change, child, confusion, copper, foolishness, frame, how, how about, ibid., in what way, labor, motion, prefix to building meaning "magnificent", servant, the said, the same, work), かん (admiration, advise, appearance, best, building, can, cap, casket, coffin, cold season, coldest days of the year, crown, designating, diadem, emotion, emperor, encourage, farewell, feeling, first, free time, guesthouse, hall, heaven, hotel, house, impression, initiating on coming of age, inn, intuition, just, kan, leave, leisure, letter, look, love of peace, midwinter, naming, nerves, offer, peerless, perception, pipe, recommend, reel, right, sensation, spare time, spectacle, strong, temper, the sixth sense, tin, top character radical, tube, volume, warship, writing brush), じゅかん (official Confucian teacher, shaft), みき (sacred wine or sake, sake offered to the gods). (various references) | |
Korean | 간선 (trunks). (various references) | |
Manx | kishtey (box, box container, carton, case, casket, chest, cist, crate, pot, pyx, rock pool, suitcase), ard-linney (main, trunk line). (various references) | |
Mohawk | karonta. (various references) | |
Norwegian | kuffert. (various references) | |
Occitan | tronc (bole, tree trunk), soc (bole, tree trunk), mala (mail, tree trunk). (various references) | |
Papiamen | maleta, baúl. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | unktray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | tronco (body, bole, bulk, frustum, tree-trunk), baú (box), mala (bag, box, chest, handbag, portmanteau, suitcase), mala grande. (various references) | |
Romanian | tulpinã (haulm, scape, shank, stalk, stem, stock), trup (body, bone, clod, corpus, frame), trunchi (block, frustrum, shaft, shank, stem, stock, stool, stub, stump, torso), trompã (proboscis, tube), tors (purr, spun, torso), sipet (coffer), portbagaj (carrier, luggage carrier, rack), ladã (box, case, chest, coffer, crate), geamantan (portmanteau, suit case, suitcase, valise), cufãr (box, chest, coffer), coloanã (column, javelin, page, pillar, puncheon, shaft), chiloţi de sport (bloomers), buştean (horse-block, hub, log, lump, stub, stump, timber), arterã principalã (thoroughfare). (various references) | |
Russian | чемодан (bag, portmanteaux, suitcase, valise), шина (bus, highway, splint, tire, tyre). (various references) | |
Scottish | stoc (a stock, a trumpet, stock, store), com (body, cavity of the chest). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | trup (belly, body, hull, scape, shank), torzo (bole, torso), surla (proboscis), stablo (bole, scape), sanduk (box, chest, crate, hull, hutch, locker), prtljažnik, međumesni, glavni (arch, basic, capital, cardinal, chief, general, head, key, leading, magistral, main, major, paramount, premier, prime, principal, salient). (various references) | |
Shona | musinga. (various references) | |
Spanish | tronco (barrel, body, bole, frustum, log, pair, stem, stock, tree-trunk), baúl, maleta (baggage, case, ham, portmanteau, suitcase, take, valise), portaequipajes (grid), maletero (boot, porter). (various references) | |
Sranan | pagara, kofru. (various references) | |
Swedish | koffert, trunk (connection), trädstam (bole, tree trunk), stam (clan, counterfoil, family, stem, stock, tribe), snabel (proboscis). (various references) | |
Turkish | bavul (hold all, suitcase, valise). (various references) | |
Turkmen | korpus (r) (body, torso), hortum, gцwre (torso). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | стовбур (body, bole, shaft, stem), тулуб (body, carcass, torso), магістраль (artery, pipeline, turnpike), багажник (carrier), дорожня скриня. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | rương (chest, saratoga), người (ball, soapy, thee), cột (column, pillar). (various references) | |
Welsh | trwnc (lye, urine), coffr (chest, coffer), boncyff (stock, stump), arch (ark, behest, bidding, coffin, petition, request, waist). (various references) | |
Yucatec | chun (base, basis, beginning, commencement, lineage, origin, start, stem). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | lagab. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | caudex, codex, manibus, manu, manui, manum, manumque, manus, manuum, matrix, trunco, truncum, truncus. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | tronc. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "trunk": trunked, trunkfish, trunkfishes, trunkful, trunkfuls, trunks, trunksful. (additional references) | |
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"Trunk" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: grunk, Strunk, thunk, torun, tranc, trank, trenk, Trinko, Trnka, tronc, Troubk, truk, Trumka, trun, trunc, trunck, truncy, trund, trune, Truno, truns, trunt, trunx, tunc. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "trunk" (pronounced tru"ngk) |
| 4 | -r u" ng k | drunk, shrunk. |
| 3 | -u" ng k | bunk, chunk, clunk, debunk, Dunk, flunk, funk, hunk, junk, monk, plunk, punk, skunk, Spunk, stunk, sunk. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "k-n-r-t-u" | |
-1 letter: knur, runt, turk, turn. | |
-2 letters: nut, run, rut, tun, urn. | |
-3 letters: nu, un, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "k-n-r-t-u" | |
+1 letter: trunks. | |
+2 letters: outrank, trunked, turnkey. | |
+3 letters: bankrupt, drunkest, junketer, outdrank, outdrink, outdrunk, outranks, strucken, trinkums, trucking, truckman, truckmen, trunkful, turnkeys, turnpike. | |
+4 letters: antiquark, bankrupts, buckthorn, frankfurt, junketeer, junketers, knurliest, outdrinks, outranked, sunstroke, sunstruck, truckings, truckline, truckling, trunkfish, trunkfuls, trunksful, tuckering, turnpikes, undertake, undertook. | |
+5 letters: antiquarks, bankruptcy, bankrupted, buckthorns, frankfurts, groupthink, junketeers, keratinous, knackwurst, knockwurst, moonstruck, nutcracker, outbarking, outranking, outrocking, outworking, soundtrack, subnetwork, sunstrokes, trucklines, turfskiing, turnbuckle, turtleneck, underskirt, undertaken, undertaker, undertakes, undertrick. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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