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.

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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).

Noun

(en noun)

A set of clothes to be worn together, now especially a man's matching jacket and trousers (also business suit or lounge suit), or a similar outfit for a woman.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=Foreword citation , passage=A canister of flour from the kitchen had been thrown at the looking-glass and lay like trampled snow over the remains of a decent blue suit with the lining ripped out which lay on top of the ruin of a plastic wardrobe.}}

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Revenge of the nerds , passage=Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suit ed men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.}}

(by extension) A single garment that covers the whole body: space suit, boiler suit, protective suit.

(pejorative, slang) A person who wears matching jacket and trousers, especially a boss or a supervisor.

A full set of armour.

(legal) The attempt to gain an end by legal process; a process instituted in a court of law for the recovery of a right or claim; a lawsuit.

(obsolete) The act of following or pursuing; pursuit, chase.

Pursuit of a love-interest; wooing, courtship.

Rebate your loves, each rival suit suspend, Till this funereal web my labors end. —(Alexander Pope).

The full set of sails required for a ship.

(card games) Each of the sets of a pack of cards distinguished by color and/or specific emblems, such as the spades, hearts, diamonds and French playing cards.

To deal and shuffle, to divide and sort Her mingled suits and sequences. — (William Cowper).

(obsolete) Regular order; succession.

Every five and thirty years the same kind and suit of weather comes again. — (Francis Bacon).

(obsolete) The act of suing; the pursuit of a particular object or goal.

Thenceforth the suit of earthly conquest shone. — (Edmund Spenser).

(archaic) A company of attendants or followers; a retinue.

(archaic) A group of similar or related objects or items considered as a whole; a suite (of rooms etc.)