Trunk vs Leaf - What's the difference?
trunk | leaf |
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.
The usually green and flat organ that represents the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants.
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, title= Anything resembling the leaf of a plant.
A sheet of any substance beaten or rolled until very thin.
A sheet of a book, magazine, etc (consisting of two pages, one on each face of the leaf).
(in the plural) Tea leaves.
A flat section used to extend the size of a table.
A moveable panel, e.g. of a bridge or door, originally one that hinged but now also applied to other forms of movement.
(botany) A foliage leaf or any of the many and often considerably different structures it can specialise into.
(computing, mathematics) In a tree, a node that has no descendants.
* 2011 , John Mongan, ?Noah Kindler, ?Eric Giguère, Programming Interviews Exposed
The layer of fat supporting the kidneys of a pig, leaf fat.
One of the teeth of a pinion, especially when small.
As nouns the difference between trunk and leaf
is that trunk is drink while leaf is the usually green and flat organ that represents the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants.As a verb leaf is
to produce leaves; put forth foliage.trunk
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(en noun)Synonyms
* boot (UK, Aus ) * (upright part of a tree) tree trunk * (nose of an elephant) proboscisDerived terms
* tree trunk * trunk roadExternal links
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(en verb)- Out of the trunked stock.
leaf
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(leaves)William E. Conner
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- The algorithm pops the stack to obtain a new current node when there are no more children (when it reaches a leaf ).
