Trunk vs. Suitcase — What's the Difference?
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Difference Between Trunk and Suitcase
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Definitions
Trunk
The main woody stem of a tree as distinct from its branches and roots.
Suitcase
A suitcase is a form of luggage. It is often a somewhat flat, rectangular-shaped bag with rounded square corners.
Trunk
A person's or animal's body apart from the limbs and head.
Suitcase
A usually rectangular piece of luggage for carrying clothing.
Trunk
The elongated, prehensile nose of an elephant.
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Suitcase
A large (usually rectangular) piece of luggage used for carrying clothes, and sometimes suits, when travelling.
My suitcase is stowed in the luggage rack.
Trunk
A large box with a hinged lid for storing or transporting clothes and other articles.
Suitcase
To trade using samples in a suitcase.
Trunk
The main woody axis of a tree.
Suitcase
To smuggle in one's rectum.
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Trunk
(Architecture) The shaft of a column.
Suitcase
A portable rectangular traveling bag for carrying clothes;
He carried his small bag onto the plane with him
Trunk
The body of a human or other vertebrate, excluding the head and limbs.
Trunk
The thorax of an insect.
Trunk
A proboscis, especially the long prehensile proboscis of an elephant.
Trunk
A main body, apart from tributaries or appendages.
Trunk
The main stem of a blood vessel or nerve apart from the branches.
Trunk
A trunk line.
Trunk
A chute or conduit.
Trunk
A watertight shaft connecting two or more decks.
Trunk
The housing for the centerboard of a vessel.
Trunk
A covering over the hatches of a ship.
Trunk
An expansion chamber on a tanker.
Trunk
A cabin on a small boat.
Trunk
A covered compartment for luggage and storage, generally at the rear of an automobile.
Trunk
A large packing case or box that clasps shut, used as luggage or for storage.
Trunk
Trunks Shorts worn for swimming or other athletics.
Trunk
Part of a body.
Trunk
The usually single, more or less upright part of a tree, between the roots and the branches.
Trunk
The torso.
Trunk
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
(heading) A container.
Trunk
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
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
The luggage storage compartment of a sedan/saloon-style car.
Trunk
(automotive) A storage compartment fitted behind the seat of a motorcycle.
Trunk
(heading) A channel for flow of some kind.
Trunk
A circuit between telephone switchboards or other switching equipment.
Trunk
A chute or conduit, or a watertight shaft connecting two or more decks.
Trunk
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
(archaic) A long tube through which pellets of clay, peas, etc., are driven by the force of the breath. A peashooter
Trunk
(mining) A flume or sluice in which ores are separated from the slimes in which they are contained.
Trunk
(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.
Trunk
The main line or body of anything.
The trunk of a vein or of an artery, as distinct from the branches
Trunk
(transport) A main line in a river, canal, railroad, or highway system.
Trunk
(architecture) The part of a pilaster between the base and capital, corresponding to the shaft of a column.
Trunk
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
(in the plural) swimming trunks
Trunk
To lop off; to curtail; to truncate.
Trunk
To extract (ores) from the slimes in which they are contained, by means of a trunk.
Trunk
(telecommunication) To provide simultaneous network access to multiple clients by sharing a set of circuits, carriers, channels, or frequencies.
Trunk
The stem, or body, of a tree, apart from its limbs and roots; the main stem, without the branches; stock; stalk.
About the mossy trunk I wound me soon,For, high from ground, the branches would requireThy utmost reach.
Trunk
The body of an animal, apart from the head and limbs.
Trunk
The main body of anything; as, the trunk of a vein or of an artery, as distinct from the branches.
Trunk
That part of a pilaster which is between the base and the capital, corresponding to the shaft of a column.
Trunk
That segment of the body of an insect which is between the head and abdomen, and bears the wings and legs; the thorax; the truncus.
Trunk
The proboscis of an elephant.
Trunk
A long tube through which pellets of clay, p as, etc., are driven by the force of the breath.
He shot sugarplums them out of a trunk.
Trunk
A box or chest usually covered with leather, metal, or cloth, or sometimes made of leather, hide, or metal, for containing clothes or other goods; especially, one used to convey the effects of a traveler.
Locked up in chests and trunks.
Trunk
A flume or sluice in which ores are separated from the slimes in which they are contained.
Trunk
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
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
To lop off; to curtail; to truncate; to maim.
Trunk
The main stem of a tree; usually covered with bark; the bole is usually the part that is commercially useful for lumber
Trunk
Luggage consisting of a large strong case used when traveling or for storage
Trunk
The body excluding the head and neck and limbs;
They moved their arms and legs and bodies
Trunk
Compartment in an automobile that carries luggage or shopping or tools;
He put his golf bag in the trunk
Trunk
A long flexible snout as of an elephant