Trunk vs. Suitcase

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  • Suitcase

    A suitcase is a form of luggage. It is often a somewhat flat, rectangular-shaped bag with rounded square corners, either metal, hard plastic or made of cloth, vinyl or leather that more or less retains its shape.It has a carrying handle on one side and is used mainly for transporting clothes and other possessions during trips. It opens on hinges like a door. Suitcases lock with keys or a combination.

Wikipedia
  • Trunk (noun)

    Part of a body.

  • Trunk (noun)

    The usually single, more or less upright part of a tree, between the roots and the branches: the tree trunk.

  • Trunk (noun)

    The torso.

  • Trunk (noun)

    A container.

  • Trunk (noun)

    The conspicuously extended, mobile, nose-like organ of an animal such as a sengi, a tapir or especially an elephant. The trunks of various kinds of animals might be adapted to probing and sniffing, as in the sengis, or be partly prehensile, as in the tapir, or be a versatile prehensile organ for manipulation, feeding, drinking and fighting as in the elephant.

  • Trunk (noun)

    A large suitcase, chest, or similar receptacle for carrying or storing personal possessions, usually with a hinged, often domed lid, and handles at each end, so that generally it takes two persons to carry a full trunk.

  • Trunk (noun)

    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.

  • Trunk (noun)

    A channel for flow of some kind.

  • Trunk (noun)

    The luggage storage compartment of a sedan/saloon style car; a boot

  • Trunk (noun)

    A circuit between telephone switchboards or other switching equipment.

  • Trunk (noun)

    A chute or conduit, or a watertight shaft connecting two or more decks.

  • Trunk (noun)

    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.

  • Trunk (noun)

    A long tube through which pellets of clay, peas, etc., are driven by the force of the breath. A peashooter

  • Trunk (noun)

    In software projects under source control: the most current source tree, from which the latest unstable builds (so-called “trunk builds”) are compiled.

  • Trunk (noun)

    The main line or body of anything.

    “the trunk of a vein or of an artery, as distinct from the branches”

  • Trunk (noun)

    A flume or sluice in which ores are separated from the slimes in which they are contained.

  • Trunk (noun)

    A main line in a river, canal, railroad, or highway system.

  • Trunk (noun)

    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.

  • Trunk (noun)

    Shorts used for swimming (swim trunks).

  • Trunk (verb)

    To lop off; to curtail; to truncate.

  • Trunk (verb)

    To extract (ores) from the slimes in which they are contained, by means of a trunk.

  • Suitcase (noun)

    A large (usually rectangular) piece of luggage used for carrying clothes, and sometimes suits, when travelling.

  • Suitcase (verb)

    To suitcase.

Wiktionary
  • Trunk (noun)

    the main woody stem of a tree as distinct from its branches and roots.

  • Trunk (noun)

    the main part of an artery, nerve, or other anatomical structure from which smaller branches arise.

  • Trunk (noun)

    an enclosed shaft or conduit for cables or ventilation.

  • Trunk (noun)

    a person’s or animal’s body apart from the limbs and head.

  • Trunk (noun)

    the elongated, prehensile nose of an elephant.

  • Trunk (noun)

    a large box with a hinged lid for storing or transporting clothes and other articles.

  • Trunk (noun)

    an enclosed space at the back of a car for carrying luggage and other goods; a boot.

Oxford Dictionary

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