trunk

Betekenis (Engels)

Noun

1. Part of a body.
2. Part of a body.
3. Part of a body.
4. A container.
5. A container.
6. A container.
7. A container.
8. A channel for flow of some kind.
9. A channel for flow of some kind.
10. A channel for flow of some kind.
11. A channel for flow of some kind.
12. A channel for flow of some kind.
13. In software projects under source control: the most current source tree, from which the latest unstable builds (so-called "trunk builds") are compiled.
14. The main line or body of anything.
15. The main line or body of anything.
16. The main line or body of anything.
17. 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.
18. Short for swimming trunks.

Verb

1. (obsolete) To lop off; to curtail; to truncate.
2. To extract (ores) from the slimes in which they are contained, by means of a trunk.
3. To provide simultaneous network access to multiple clients by sharing a set of circuits, carriers, channels, or frequencies.

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/tɹʌŋk/

Etimologie (Engels)

From Middle English tronke, trunke, from Old French tronc (“alms box, tree trunk, headless body”), from Latin truncus (“a stock, lopped tree trunk”), from truncus (“cut off, maimed, mutilated”). For the verb, compare French tronquer, and see truncate. Doublet of truncus and tronk.

Sinne

It's shooting branches from the trunk , which means it can't properly get its sap to the top .