trunk
//tɹʌŋk//
Forms
- Plural
- trunks
- present (v1)
- trunk
- past (v2)
- trunked
- past participle (v3)
- trunked
- present participle
- trunking
- 3rd person singular
- trunks
Definitions
1.Part of a body.
2.A container.
- I'm a stunt; ride in the car with some bump in the 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.
3.A channel for flow of some kind.
- He shot Sugar Plums at them out of a Trunk.
4.In software projects under source control: the most current source tree, from which the latest unstable builds (so-called "trunk builds") are compiled.
1.To provide simultaneous network access to multiple clients by sharing a set of circuits, carriers, channels, or frequencies.
2.To extract (ores) from the slimes in which they are contained, by means of a trunk.
Frequency
Overall
Rare· #4090
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Rare
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Etymology
From Middle English tronke, trunke, 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.