Barrel vs Trunk - What's the difference?
barrel | trunk |
(countable) A round vessel or cask, of greater length than breadth, and bulging in the middle, made of staves bound with hoops, and having flat ends or heads. Sometimes applied to a similar cylindrical container made of metal, usually called a drum.
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, title= The quantity which constitutes a full barrel. This varies for different articles and also in different places for the same article, being regulated by custom or by law. A barrel of wine is 31 ½ gallons; a barrel of flour is 196 pounds; of beer 31 gallons; of ale 32 gallons; of crude oil 42 gallons.
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A solid drum, or a hollow cylinder or case;
A metallic tube, as of a gun, from which a projectile is discharged.
(archaic) A tube.
(zoology) The hollow basal part of a feather.
(music) The part of a clarinet which connects the mouthpiece and upper joint, and looks rather like a barrel (1).
(surfing) A wave that breaks with a hollow compartment.
A waste receptacle.
The ribs and belly of a horse or pony.
(obsolete) A jar.
* Bible , 1 Kings 17:12, King James Version:
*:: compare the New International Version:
*::: "As surely as the LORD your God lives," she replied, "I don't have any bread--only a handful of flour in a jar and a little olive oil in a jug.
(biology) Any of the dark-staining regions in the somatosensory cortex of rodents, etc., where somatosensory inputs from the contralateral side of the body come in from the thalamus.
To put or to pack in a barrel or barrels.
To move quickly or in an uncontrolled manner.
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Part of a body.
#The (usually single) upright part of a tree, between the roots and the branches: the tree trunk.
#The torso.
#The extended and articulated nose or nasal organ of an elephant.
#The proboscis of an insect.
(lb) A container.
#A large suitcase, usually requiring two persons to lift and with a hinged lid.
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#*: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.
#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.
#*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
#*:locked up in chests and trunks
# The luggage storage compartment of a sedan/saloon style car.
(lb) A channel for flow of some kind.
# A circuit between telephone switchboards or other switching equipment.
#A chute or conduit, or a watertight shaft connecting two or more decks.
#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, etc.
#(lb) A long tube through which pellets of clay, pas, etc., are driven by the force of the breath.
#*(James Howell) (c.1594–1666)
#*:He shot sugarplums at them out of a trunk .
#(lb) A flume or sluice in which ores are separated from the slimes in which they are contained.
In software projects under source control: the most current source tree, from which the latest unstable builds (so-called "trunk builds") are compiled.
The main line or body of anything.
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#(lb) A main line in a river, canal, railroad, or highway system.
#(lb) The part of a pilaster between the base and capital, corresponding to the shaft of a column.
A large pipe forming the piston rod of a steam engine, of sufficient diameter to allow one end of the connecting rod to be attached to the crank, and the other end to pass within the pipe directly to the piston, thus making the engine more compact.
Shorts used for swimming (swim trunks).
(obsolete) To lop off; to curtail; to truncate.
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(mining) To extract (ores) from the slimes in which they are contained, by means of a trunk.
As nouns the difference between barrel and trunk
is that barrel is (countable) a round vessel or cask, of greater length than breadth, and bulging in the middle, made of staves bound with hoops, and having flat ends or heads sometimes applied to a similar cylindrical container made of metal, usually called a drum while trunk is drink.As a verb barrel
is to put or to pack in a barrel or barrels.barrel
English
(wikipedia barrel) of a winery in (Trnava), (Slovakia).Noun
(en noun)Yesterday’s fuel, passage=The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania. The first barrels of crude fetched $18 (around $450 at today’s prices).}}
- And she said, As the Lord thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel , and a little oil in a cruse:
See also
* cooperVerb
- He came barrelling around the corner and I almost hit him.
- Snow shattered and spilled down the slope. Within seconds, the avalanche was the size of more than a thousand cars barreling down the mountain and weighed millions of pounds.
trunk
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Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* boot (UK, Aus ) * (upright part of a tree) tree trunk * (nose of an elephant) proboscisDerived terms
* tree trunk * trunk roadExternal links
* *Verb
(en verb)- Out of the trunked stock.