Trunk vs Fog - What's the difference?
trunk | fog |
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.
(label) A thick cloud that forms near the ground; the obscurity of such a cloud.
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*:Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog -laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor;.
(label) A mist or film clouding a surface.
A state of mind characterized by lethargy and confusion.
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, title= (label) A silver deposit or other blur on a negative or developed photographic image.
To become covered with or as if with fog.
To become obscured in condensation or water.
(photography) To become dim or obscure.
To cover with or as if with fog.
* 1968 , Eighth Annual Report , Metropolitan Corporation of Greater Winnipeg, p 7:
To obscure in condensation or water.
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To make confusing or obscure.
(photography) To make dim or obscure.
To practice in a small or mean way; to pettifog.
* Dryden
A new growth of grass appearing on a field that has been mowed or grazed.
(UK, dialect) Tall and decaying grass left standing after the cutting or grazing season; foggage.
(Scotland) Moss.
To pasture cattle on the fog, or aftergrass, of; to eat off the fog from.
As nouns the difference between trunk and fog
is that trunk is drink while fog is (label) a thick cloud that forms near the ground; the obscurity of such a cloud or fog can be a new growth of grass appearing on a field that has been mowed or grazed.As a verb fog is
to become covered with or as if with fog or fog can be to pasture cattle on the fog, or aftergrass, of; to eat off the fog from.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.
fog
English
(wikipedia fog)Etymology 1
Origin uncertain; perhaps a or perhaps related to the Dutch vocht and German feucht (moisture)Noun
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=I was on my way to the door, but all at once, through the fog in my head, I began to sight one reef that I hadn't paid any attention to afore.}}
Usage notes
* To count sense thick cloud , bank of fog is usually used. * To count sense clouding a surface , foggy patch is usually used.Synonyms
* (cloud that forms at a low altitude and obscures vision) mist, haze * (mist or film clouding a surface) steam * (state of mind characterized by lethargy and confusion) daze, hazeDerived terms
* fog bank * fogbell * fogbound * foggy * foghorn * fog lamp * fog layer * fog light * fog of war * fog signal * in a fog * fog dripVerb
(fogg)- The mirror fogged every time he showered.
- Fogging' for adult mosquito control began on June 4th in residential areas. Until September 25th, the Metro area was ' fogged eleven times, using nine truck-mounted foggers, eight hand swing foggers, and two boats.
- Where wouldst thou fog to get a fee?
Synonyms
* (to become obscured in condensation or water) become cloudy, become steamy * (to make confusing or obscure) blur, cloud, obscureEtymology 2
Origin uncertain; compare Norwegian fogg .Noun
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