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Definition: Trunks |
TrunksNoun1. Trousers that end at or above the knee. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "trunks" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Trunks is a fictional character in the Animes Dragon Ball Z and Dragon Ball GT. He is the Halfbreed Saiyan son of Vegeta and Bulma.
Future Trunks
This is the first Trunks we ever see in Dragon Ball Z, and he is from a future alternate dimension, where the evil Android 17 and Android 18 are using the Earth as a playground, doing what they wish, due to being the strongest beings at the time. In this alternate future, Vegeta died in the fight against the Androids, along with all of the Z Fighters apart from Gohan, who is his first mentor and martial arts teacher. As a result Trunks did not know his father at all, as he was only an infant at the time, and so when he finally meets his father in the past, he is seen to be constantly trying to impress him.
Future Trunks travels back in time in order to warn Goku about the Android threat in the future, but upon arrival he is greeted by the Mecha-Frieza with his father King Cold. They had come to Earth in order to seek revenge upon Goku's loved ones. Trunks, then a young teenager, did not look like much of a threat to Frieza, and he freely told him so. Frieza was then given three oppurtunities to kill Trunks, but Trunks was able to block and dodge the attacks with ease. Trunks then performs what he calls his Burning Attack, which is followed up by his sword. Frieza was once again in more than one place at the same time. Had Trunks not shown up at that time the people of Earth would have surely been killed, because Goku was still on the way to Earth at this time.
When they train in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber together Trunks surpasses Vegeta in power, due to being a Halfbreed Saiyan. Throughout the year that was spent in the Time Chamber, Trunks realised Vegeta's real sense of Saiyan pride. With this knowledge in mind, Trunks hid his true power level to spare what pride Vegeta had left. Trunks had managed to reach what is called a Ultimate Super Saiyan, where the Saiyan is still Super Saiyan 1, but have trained a lot and are on their way to Super Saiyan 2. In this form, if they power up enough, their muscles will expand a lot and because of this their speed decreases.
Trunks is the first Saiyan to take on Perfect Cell with the intention of destroying him, although Trunks' power was enough to deal significant damage to Cell, Trunks was too bulky and slow, and this gave Cell the upper hand. Trunks quickly realised that he was too slow and gave up hope right before Cell's eyes. The battle hungry Bio Android, however, was entrigued at how strong Trunks had become in such a short period of time and posed a challege to the strongest fighters on Earth (Z Fighters, Vegeta and Android 16) to train as much as they could over a period of nine days. Then at the end of these nine days all the fighters of Earth must compete in the Cell Games. Trunks then left the battlefield and spread the word about the Cell Games, then when he reaches Kami Tower he declares a position in the "Hyperbolic Time Chamber" and trains for a whole year in one day.
When Trunks emerges from his training he is powerful enough to compete in the games and although he wouldn't be able to take on Cell alone, he is definitely strong enough to return to his time and destroy Android 17 and Android 18. With nothing to lose Trunks left with all the fighters of Earth to where Cell awaits. Trunks never gets the opportunity to kill Perfect Cell and during the fight between Gohan and the Bio Android, Trunks is impaled through the chest with a powerful energy blast and left for dead.
Trunks remains dead until he is revived by Dende's new Shen Long at Kami's Tower well after Perfect Cell is dead. After the celebrations Trunks says his goodbyes and returns to his time and dimension. After reuniting with his mother, Bulma, Trunks sees a News update on Android 17 and Android 18 and quickly powers up. Meanwhile the Androids are about to kill another innocent man, when all of a sudden Trunks hurtles a very accurate energy attack, narrowly missing Android 17. The cocky Androids foolishly underestimate Trunks and try to rush him. Trunks easily dodges all their attacks and punishes them duely, when he obliterates Android 18 in a point blank energy blast. Android 17 looks on in disbelief and his feelings soon turn to hatred when the outpowered Android charges Trunks again, but he too is terminated with ease.
The completely unscathed Trunks returns to his home and everything seems at peace with the Earth except for one thing, Cell. The determined Bio Android in his weakest form, still roaming around for the now non-existant Androids, comes across Trunks and Bulma saying their goodbyes before the Time Machine. Trunks is about to leave when he senses Cell and sends Bulma away, Trunks then turns toward Cell and begins to taunt him with his knowledge from the alternate past. Trunks informs Cell that he has killed the Androids from the current time, and that the Androids of the alternate past have been destroyed as well, so all of his hopes for Perfection are crushed.
The weak and cocky Cell approaches the Halfbreed Saiyan under the false impression that he is as weak as Trunks was when he initially went back in time and warned Goku. The fight then begins and Cell is clearly outclassed as Trunks avoids Cell's every attack. Trunks then takes action by grabbing Cell's tail and swinging him around in a circle, building up momentum, and then hurtling him high into the air. Cell then realises that he has no hope against the new Trunks, and begins to prepare a Kamehameha Wave large enough to destroy the planet, knowing all too well that he could survive in space. Cell begins the formalities of the attack but is interrupted when Trunks unleashes all of his strength into a massive destructive wave of energy which incinerates Cell.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Trunks."
Synonyms: TrunksSynonyms: short pants (n), shorts (n). (additional references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Trunks, I never hugged you as a babylet me hug you. (Dragon Ball Z; writing credit: Chris Forbis; Eric Johnson) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | "Lava trees" formed when lava cools around tree trunks are quite tall. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Mossy big leafe maple trunks. Credit: T. Hogervorst. |
 | Medicine - Military - Equipment : The hospital company equipment showing the use of multiples of the numbered trunks. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Trunks and boots in front of store window on main street. Columbus, Georgia. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Pawn shop with trunks and boots displayed on main street in Columbus, Georgia. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Rogue River National Forest, Klamath County, Oregon. Bases of trees. The two trunks at the left and center are Ponderosa pines. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Canadian scenes. Stack of boxes and trunks. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Delhi (?) - young boy carrying two large trunks on his head. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Autumn Tree 1" by Philip Jackson Commentary: "Trees near school, yellow in the autumn, strong against the darker trunks esp after rain." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Full trunks would have required porters, and porters are witnesses |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Then the first tendrils of the grapes swelling from the old gnarled vines, cascade down to cover the trunks. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Silver-haired bats often roost in tree cavities or in bark crevices on tree trunks, especially during migration. (references) | |
The peripheral nervous system refers to the cervical, thoracic, lumbar, and sacral nerve trunks leading away from the spine to the limbs. (references) | ||
Economic History | Malaysia | Other areas of opportunity include industrial reuse of biomass from land clearing, palm oil trunks, and the food industries (e.g., rice, sugarcane, pineapple, and cocoa). (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Trunks" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 94.95% of the time. "Trunks" is used about 277 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 (plural) | 94.95% | 263 | 18,193 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 3.25% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.81% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 277 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "trunks": all trunks busy ♦ all trunks busy signal ♦ bathing trunks ♦ dial "0" trunks to attendant ♦ digitization of local trunks ♦ digitization of toll trunks ♦ swimming trunks ♦ tandem trunks. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "trunks": bathing-trunks, swimming-trunks, tree-trunks. | |
| 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 |
trunks | 1,046 | trunks wallpaper | 31 |
antique trunks | 143 | temple trunks | 31 |
swim trunks | 128 | dbz trunks picture | 30 |
dbz trunks | 116 | bahamas swim trunks | 29 |
o temple trunks | 105 | fan fiction pan trunks | 29 |
trunks picture | 102 | dbz pic of trunks | 28 |
storage trunks | 101 | posing trunks | 26 |
trunks pic | 95 | motorcycle trunks | 25 |
pan trunks | 84 | hunk without trunks | 25 |
steamer trunks | 84 | fanart pan trunks | 24 |
swimming trunks | 65 | old trunks | 24 |
dragonball z trunks | 64 | luggage trunks | 23 |
man swim trunks | 61 | pan pic trunks | 23 |
hunk in trunks | 61 | tree trunks | 23 |
camp trunks | 52 | wooden trunks | 22 |
future trunks | 43 | ssj trunks | 21 |
marron trunks | 40 | travel trunks | 21 |
wicker trunks | 35 | trunks image | 21 |
tack trunks | 35 | dragonball z picture of trunks | 20 |
goten and trunks | 34 | antique steamer trunks | 18 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "trunks"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | mbathje sporti (trunk), brekë (drawers, pantie, panties, pants). (various references) | |
Arabic | بنطلون سباحة, بناطيل قصيرة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | къси спортни гащета, къси бански гащета. (various references) | |
Chinese | 笈 , 树干 (trunk). (various references) | |
Czech | pánské trenýrky, pánské plavky (swimming trunks). (various references) | |
Danish | badebukser (swimming trunks). (various references) | |
Dutch | digitalisering van de lokale trunkverbindingen (digitization of local trunks), badbroek (bathing trunks), badbroekje (bathing trunks), buitenlijnoproepverwerking via geschakelde lus (switched loop operation trunks), cascade bundellijnen (tandem trunks), congestie (congestion, rush), 0-buitenlijnkiezer op het toestel van de operator (dial 0 trunks to attendant), digitalisering van de interdistricts-transmissie (digitization of toll trunks), zwembroekje (bathing trunks), doorverbinding op spraakfrekwentieniveau (interconnected by analog trunks, interconnected by analogue trunks), hoofdlijnoproepverwerking via geschakelde lus (switched loop operation trunks), koppelvlakken voor centrale's (trunks interfacing), versterkingshoek (corner reinforcer for trunks), voor koffers (corner reinforcer for trunks), zwembroek (swimming trunks), congestietoon (all trunks busy signal, ATB signal, busy tone, channel-busy tone, congestion tone, engaged tone, reorder signal). (various references) | |
Esperanto | bankalsono (swimming trunks). (various references) | |
Faeroese | svimjibuksur (swimming trunks). (various references) | |
Finnish | yhdistetty analogisilla kaukojohdoilla (interconnected by analog trunks, interconnected by analogue trunks), uimahousut (swimming trunks), paikallisten yhdysjohtojen digitalisointi (digitization of local trunks), nollan valinnalla yhteys välittäjään (dial "0" trunks to attendant), kaukojohtojen digitalisointi (digitization of toll trunks), kaksoisrunkolinja (tandem trunks), kaikki kaukojohdot varattu (all trunks busy), estoääni (all trunks busy signal, ATB signal, channel-busy tone, congestion tone, reorder signal). (various references) | |
French | slip de bain (swimming trunks), maillot (trunk), caleçon. (various references) | |
German | turnhose (gym shorts, gym trousers), Koffer (bag, bags, case, chest, suitcase, trunk), badehose (swimming trunks, trunk). (various references) | |
Greek | κοντό πανταλόνι αθλητών, σώβρακο (briefs, drawers, pants, underpants), μαγιό ανδρικό. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מכנסי שחיה. (various references) | |
Hungarian | testhezálló férfi alsónadrág, távolsági beszélgetés (toll-call, trunk call), távolsági bejelentő, sportnadrág, rövid férfi alsónadrág, interurbán, fürdőnadrág (bathing trunks, swimming trunks), combközépig érő nadrág, úszónadrág (trunk), alsónadrág (drawers, pair of drawers, panties, pants, shorts, underpants, undershorts), ágyéktakaró, ágyékkendő. (various references) | |
Italian | calzoni da bagno. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | トラップ射撃 (electrical transistor, tradition, traditional, traffic, traffic builder, trance, tranquilizer, transaction, transactional analysis, Trans-Am, trans-American, transceiver, transcription, transformer, transistor, transistor glamour, transit, transnational, transparency, transponder, Transylvania, trap shooting, trappiste, trappistine, travel, travel agency, travel bureau, travel set, travel watch, travelers check, travellers' cheque, travelling, traverse, trouble, trouble shot, troublemaker, trouble-shooting, trough, trunk, trunk room, work). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | トランクス . (various references) | |
Korean | 간선 (trunk). (various references) | |
Manx | kip (blocks, whip). (various references) | |
Norwegian | badebukse (swimming trunks). (various references) | |
Papiamen | zuèmbruk (swimming trunks), batbruk (swimming trunks). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | unkstray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | sunga, calções de banho. (various references) | |
Romanian | chiloţi (drawers, knickers, pants, slips). (various references) | |
Russian | спортивные трусы. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | kupaće gaće. (various references) | |
Spanish | traje de baño (bathing costume, bathing suit, bathing-suit, swimming suit, swimsuit), pantalón de baño, bañador (bathing costume, bathing suit, bathing trunks, swimming trunks, swimsuit), ba ador (swimsuit). (various references) | |
Swedish | underbyxor (bloomers, drawers, knickers, panties, underpants). (various references) | |
Turkish | mayo (bather, bathing costume, bathing dress, bathing suit, bathing-drowers, costume, one-piece bathing-suit, swim suit, swimming suit), kısa don, şort (shorts). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | труси (loincloth, pants, shorts, skivvy). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "trunks": trunksful. (additional references) | |
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"Trunks" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aruncus, thunks, Trinko, Trnka, tronc, Troncoso, trons, Trumka, trunc, trunck, trunes, truns, trunx. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "trunks" (pronounced tru"ngks) |
| 5 | -r u" ng k s | drunks. |
| 4 | -u" ng k s | bunks, chunks, clunks, dunks, flunks, funks, hunks, monks, punks, skunks. |
| 3 | -ng k s | banks, blanks, blinks, brinks, chinks, cranks, drinks, finks, flanks, francs, Franks, Hanks, Hijinks, hyperlinks, inks, jinks, jinx, kinks, larynx, links, Lynx, minks, nasopharynx, phalanx, pharynx, pinks, planks, pranks, ranks, rinks, shanks, shrinks, sinks, skinks, sphinx, stinks, tanks, thanks, thinks, tiddlywinks, winks, yanks. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "k-n-r-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: knurs, runts, stunk, trunk, turks, turns. | |
-2 letters: knur, nuts, runs, runt, rusk, rust, ruts, stun, sunk, tuns, turk, turn, tusk, urns. | |
-3 letters: nus, nut, run, rut, sun, tsk, tun, uns, urn, uts. | |
-4 letters: nu, un, us, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "k-n-r-s-t-u" | |
+2 letters: drunkest, outranks, strucken, trinkums, turnkeys. | |
+3 letters: bankrupts, junketers, knurliest, outdrinks, sunstroke, sunstruck, truckings, trunkfish, trunkfuls, trunksful, turnpikes. | |
+4 letters: antiquarks, buckthorns, frankfurts, junketeers, keratinous, knackwurst, knockwurst, moonstruck, soundtrack, subnetwork, sunstrokes, trucklines, turfskiing, underskirt, undertakes. | |
+5 letters: countersink, countersunk, groupthinks, grubstaking, huckstering, knackwursts, knockwursts, nutcrackers, soundtracks, strikebound, subnetworks, supertanker, trunkfishes, turfskiings, turnbuckles, turtlenecks, underskirts, undertakers, undertricks. | |
| 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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