Trunk vs Chest - What's the difference?
trunk | chest | Synonyms |
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.
* Spenser
(mining) To extract (ores) from the slimes in which they are contained, by means of a trunk.
A box, now usually a large strong box with a secure convex lid.
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*:But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶.
(lb) A coffin.
The place in which public money is kept; a treasury.
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A chest of drawers.
(senseid)(lb) The portion of the front of the human body from the base of the neck to the top of the abdomen; the thorax. Also the analogous area in other animals.
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#A hit or blow made with one's chest.
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To hit with one's chest (front of one's body)
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To deposit in a chest.
(obsolete) To place in a coffin.
* Bible, Genesis 1. 26
Chest is a synonym of trunk.
In obsolete terms the difference between trunk and chest
is that trunk is to lop off; to curtail; to truncate while chest is a coffin.trunk
English
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.
chest
English
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From (etyl) cheste, chiste, from (etyl) .Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (the thorax) breast * (box) trunkDerived terms
* bad chest * chest cavity * chest cold * chestless * chestlike * chest of drawers * chest pass * chestnut * chest wall * chesty * get off one’s chest * hope chest * keep one's cards close to one's chest * treasure chest * war chestVerb
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- He dieth and is chested .