Trunk

Trunk may refer to:

In biology:

  • Trunk, the proboscis of an elephant
  • Synonym for torso
  • Trunk (botany), a tree's central superstructure
  • Nerve trunk

Containers:

  • Trunk (automobile), a large storage compartment
  • Trunk (luggage)
  • Trunk (motorcycle), a storage compartment

Other uses:

  • Trunk (software), in revision control
  • Trunk (structural), a chute or conduit, or a watertight shaft connecting two or more decks.
  • Trunk line, in telecommunications
  • Trunk shot, auto-trunk camera work
  • Trunk Records, a record label
  • Trunk road

Famous quotes containing the word trunk:

    We are nothing but ceremony; ceremony carries us away, and we leave the substance of things; we hang on to the branches and abandon the trunk and body.
    Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

    Let me have
    A dram of poison, such soon-speeding gear
    As will disperse itself through all the veins
    That the life-weary taker may fall dead,
    And that the trunk may be discharged of breath
    As violently as hasty powder fired
    Doth hurry from the fatal cannon’s womb.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    That trunk of humors, that bolting-hutch of beastliness, that
    swollen parcel of dropsies, that huge bombard of sack, that
    stuffed cloak-bag of guts, that roasted Manningtree ox with
    the pudding in his belly.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)