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Trunk vs Steam - What's the difference?

trunk | steam |

As a noun trunk

is drink.

As an initialism steam is

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trunk

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.
  • #*
  • #*: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.
  • :
  • #(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).
  • Synonyms

    * boot (UK, Aus ) * (upright part of a tree) tree trunk * (nose of an elephant) proboscis

    Derived terms

    * tree trunk * trunk road

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To lop off; to curtail; to truncate.
  • * Spenser
  • Out of the trunked stock.
  • (mining) To extract (ores) from the slimes in which they are contained, by means of a trunk.
  • steam

    English

    (wikipedia steam)

    Noun

    (-)
  • The vapor formed when water changes from liquid phase to gas phase.
  • Pressurized water vapour used for heating, cooking, or to provide mechanical energy.
  • (figuratively) Internal energy for motive power.
  • After three weeks in bed he was finally able to sit up under his own steam .
  • (figuratively) Pent-up anger.
  • Dad had to go outside to blow off some steam .
  • A steam-powered vehicle.
  • Travel by means of a steam-powered vehicle.
  • (obsolete) Any exhalation.
  • * Milton
  • a steam of rich, distilled perfumes

    Synonyms

    * (a steam-powered vehicle) steamer

    Derived terms

    * blow off steam * build up steam * steam bath * steamboat * steam boiler * steam condenser * steam distillation * steam engine * steam hammer * steam heater * steam iron * steam locomotive * steam power * steam-powered * steam railroad * steamroller * steamship * steam shovel * steam train * steam turbine * run out of steam * under one's own steam

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (cooking) To cook with steam.
  • To expose to the action of steam; to apply steam to for softening, dressing, or preparing.
  • to steam wood or cloth
  • To produce or vent steam.
  • * Dryden
  • My brother's ghost hangs hovering there, / O'er his warm blood, that steams into the air.
  • To rise in vapour; to issue, or pass off, as vapour.
  • * Boyle
  • The dissolved amber steamed away into the air.
  • (figuratively) To become angry; to fume; to be incensed.
  • (figuratively) To make angry.
  • It really steams me to see her treat him like that.
  • To be covered with condensed water vapor.
  • With all the heavy breathing going on the windows were quickly steamed in the car.
  • To travel by means of steam power.
  • We steamed around the Mediterranean.
  • * N. P. Willis
  • The vessel steamed out of port.
  • (figuratively, or, literally) To move with great or excessive purposefulness.
  • If he heard of anyone picking the fruit he would steam off and lecture them.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2010 , date=December 29 , author=Chris Whyatt , title=Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=That was the hard work largely done as the Ivorian waited for Malouda to steam into the box before releasing a simple crossed pass which the Frenchman side-footed home with aplomb. }}
  • (obsolete) To exhale.
  • (Spenser)

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * steamer * steaming

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Old-fashioned; from before the digital age.
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