Suitcase vs. Trunk
Difference Between Suitcase and Trunk
Suitcasenoun
A large (usually rectangular) piece of luggage used for carrying clothes, and sometimes suits, when travelling.
Trunknoun
Part of a body.
Suitcaseverb
To trade using samples in a suitcase.
Trunknoun
The usually single, more or less upright part of a tree, between the roots and the branches: the tree trunk.
Suitcasenoun
a portable rectangular traveling bag for carrying clothes;
he carried his small bag onto the plane with himTrunknoun
The torso.
Trunknoun
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.
Trunknoun
(heading) A container.
Trunknoun
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.
Trunknoun
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.
Trunknoun
The luggage storage compartment of a sedan/saloon style car; a boot
Trunknoun
(heading) A channel for flow of some kind.
Trunknoun
A circuit between telephone switchboards or other switching equipment.
Trunknoun
A chute or conduit, or a watertight shaft connecting two or more decks.
Trunknoun
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.
Trunknoun
(archaic) A long tube through which pellets of clay, peas, etc., are driven by the force of the breath. A peashooter
Trunknoun
(mining) A flume or sluice in which ores are separated from the slimes in which they are contained.
Trunknoun
(software engineering) In software projects under source control: the most current source tree, from which the latest unstable builds (so-called "trunk builds") are compiled.
Trunknoun
The main line or body of anything.
the trunk of a vein or of an artery, as distinct from the branchesTrunknoun
(transport) A main line in a river, canal, railroad, or highway system.
Trunknoun
(architecture) The part of a pilaster between the base and capital, corresponding to the shaft of a column.
Trunknoun
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.
Trunknoun
Shorts used for swimming (swim trunks).
Trunkverb
(obsolete) To lop off; to curtail; to truncate.
Trunkverb
(mining) To extract (ores) from the slimes in which they are contained, by means of a trunk.
Trunknoun
the main stem of a tree; usually covered with bark; the bole is usually the part that is commercially useful for lumber
Trunknoun
luggage consisting of a large strong case used when traveling or for storage
Trunknoun
the body excluding the head and neck and limbs;
they moved their arms and legs and bodiesTrunknoun
compartment in an automobile that carries luggage or shopping or tools;
he put his golf bag in the trunkTrunknoun
a long flexible snout as of an elephant
