Synonyms of the word trunk


TRUNKBAGGAGE - BODY - BOLE - COMPARTMENT - LUGGAGE - NEB - PROBOSCIS - SNOUT - STALK - STEM - TORSO

trunk

  • n. (heading, biological) Part of a body.
  • n. (heading) A container.
  • n. (heading) A channel for flow of some kind.
  • n. (software engineering, jargon) In software projects under source control: the most current source tree,…
  • n. The main line or body of anything.
  • n. A large pipe forming the piston rod of a steam engine, of sufficient diameter to allow one end of the…
  • n. Shorts used for swimming (swim trunks).
  • v. (obsolete) To lop off; to curtail; to truncate.
  • v. (mining) To extract (ores) from the slimes in which they are contained, by means of a trunk.

baggage

  • n. (usually uncountable) Luggage; traveling equipment.
  • n. (uncountable, informal) Factors, especially psychological ones, which interfere with a person's ability…
  • n. (obsolete, countable, pejorative) A woman.
  • n. (military, countable and uncountable) An army's portable equipment; its baggage train.

body

  • n. Physical frame.
  • n. Main section.
  • n. Coherent group.
  • n. Material entity.
  • n. (printing) The shank of a type, or the depth of the shank (by which the size is indicated).
  • n. (geometry) A three-dimensional object, such as a cube or cone.
  • v. To give body or shape to something.
  • v. To construct the bodywork of a car.
  • v. (transitive) To embody.

bole

  • n. The trunk or stem of a tree.
  • n. (Scotland) An aperture with a shutter in the wall of a house, for giving air or light.
  • n. (Scotland) A small closet.
  • n. Any of several varieties of friable earthy clay, usually coloured red by iron oxide, and composed essentially…
  • n. (obsolete) A bolus; a dose.
  • n. Alternative form of boll (old unit of measure).

compartment

  • n. A room, or section, or chamber.
  • n. One of the parts into which an area is subdivided.
  • n. (biochemistry) Part of a protein that serves a specific function.
  • n. (heraldry) A mound (often of grass) beneath the shield in a coat of arms on which the supporters stand.
  • n. (anatomy) A region in the body, delimited by a biological membrane.
  • v. (transitive) To arrange in separate compartments.

luggage

  • n. (uncountable) The bags and other containers that hold a traveller's belongings.
  • n. (uncountable) The contents of such containers.
  • n. (countable, nonstandard or obsolete) A specific bag or container holding a traveller's belongings.

neb

  • n. (now dialectal) A bird's beak or bill.
  • n. (obsolete) A person's mouth.
  • n. (now dialectal) A person's nose.
  • n. (now dialectal) The nose or snout of an animal, now especially of a fish.
  • n. (now dialectal) A projecting extremity; a point or sharp projection.
  • n. (now dialectal) A nib, as of a pen.

proboscis

  • n. (anatomy) An elongated tube from the head or connected to the mouth, of an animal.
  • n. (informal, mildly humorous) A large or lengthy human nose.

snout

  • n. The long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast, as of pigs.
  • n. The front of the prow of a ship or boat.
  • n. (derogatory) A person's nose.
  • n. The nozzle of a pipe, hose, etc.
  • n. The anterior prolongation of the head of a gastropod; a rostrum.
  • n. The anterior prolongation of the head of weevils and allied beetles; a rostrum.
  • n. (Britain, slang) Tobacco; cigarettes.
  • n. The terminus of a glacier.
  • n. (slang) A police informer.
  • v. To furnish with a nozzle or point.

stalk

  • n. The stem or main axis of a plant, which supports the seed-carrying parts.
  • n. The petiole, pedicel, or peduncle of a plant.
  • n. Something resembling the stalk of a plant, such as the stem of a quill.
  • n. (architecture) An ornament in the Corinthian capital resembling the stalk of a plant, from which the volutes…
  • n. One of the two upright pieces of a ladder.
  • n. (zoology).
  • n. (metalworking) An iron bar with projections inserted in a core to strengthen it; a core arbor.
  • v. (transitive) To approach slowly and quietly in order not to be discovered when getting closer.
  • v. (transitive) To (try to) follow or contact someone constantly, often resulting in harassment.Wp.
  • v. (intransitive) To walk slowly and cautiously; to walk in a stealthy, noiseless manner.
  • v. (intransitive) To walk behind something, such as a screen, for the purpose of approaching game; to proceed…
  • n. A particular episode of trying to follow or contact someone.
  • n. A hunt (of a wild animal).
  • v. (intransitive) To walk haughtily.

stem

  • n. The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.
  • n. A branch of a family.
  • n. An advanced or leading position; the lookout.
  • n. (botany) The above-ground stalk (technically axis) of a vascular plant, and certain anatomically similar,…
  • n. A slender supporting member of an individual part of a plant such as a flower or a leaf; also, by analogy,…
  • n. A narrow part on certain man-made objects, such as a wine glass, a tobacco pipe, a spoon.
  • n. (linguistics) The main part of an uninflected word to which affixes may be added to form inflections of…
  • n. (slang) A person's leg.
  • n. (typography) A vertical stroke of a letter.
  • n. (music) A vertical stroke marking the length of a note in written music.
  • n. (nautical) The vertical or nearly vertical forward extension of the keel, to which the forward ends of…
  • n. Component on a bicycle that connects the handlebars to the bicycle fork.
  • n. (anatomy) A part of an anatomic structure considered without its possible branches or ramifications.
  • n. (slang) A crack pipe.
  • v. To remove the stem from.
  • v. To be caused or derived; to originate.
  • v. To descend in a family line.
  • v. To direct the stem (of a ship) against; to make headway against.
  • v. (obsolete) To hit with the stem of a ship; to ram.
  • v. To ram (clay, etc.) into a blasting hole.
  • v. To stop, hinder (for instance, a river or blood).
  • v. (skiing) To move the feet apart and point the tips of the skis inward in order to slow down the speed…
  • n. Alternative form of steem.
  • n. Alternative form of STEM.

torso

  • n. The main part of the (human) body that extends from the neck to the groin, excluding the head and limbs.

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