Trunk vs. Suitcase — What's the Difference?

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

A suitcase is a form of luggage. It is often a somewhat flat, rectangular-shaped bag with rounded square corners.

A person's or animal's body apart from the limbs and head.

A usually rectangular piece of luggage for carrying clothing.

The elongated, prehensile nose of an elephant.

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

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

To trade using samples in a suitcase.

The main woody axis of a tree.

To smuggle in one's rectum.

(Architecture) The shaft of a column.

A portable rectangular traveling bag for carrying clothes;

The body of a human or other vertebrate, excluding the head and limbs.

The thorax of an insect.

A proboscis, especially the long prehensile proboscis of an elephant.

A main body, apart from tributaries or appendages.

The main stem of a blood vessel or nerve apart from the branches.

A trunk line.

A chute or conduit.

A watertight shaft connecting two or more decks.

The housing for the centerboard of a vessel.

A covering over the hatches of a ship.

An expansion chamber on a tanker.

A cabin on a small boat.

A covered compartment for luggage and storage, generally at the rear of an automobile.

A large packing case or box that clasps shut, used as luggage or for storage.

Trunks Shorts worn for swimming or other athletics.

Part of a body.

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

The torso.

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.

(heading) A container.

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.

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.

The luggage storage compartment of a sedan/saloon-style car.

(automotive) A storage compartment fitted behind the seat of a motorcycle.

(heading) A channel for flow of some kind.

A circuit between telephone switchboards or other switching equipment.

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

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.

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

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

(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.

The main line or body of anything.

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

(architecture) The part of a pilaster between the base and capital, corresponding to the shaft of a column.

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.

(in the plural) swimming trunks

To lop off; to curtail; to truncate.

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

(telecommunication) To provide simultaneous network access to multiple clients by sharing a set of circuits, carriers, channels, or frequencies.

The stem, or body, of a tree, apart from its limbs and roots; the main stem, without the branches; stock; stalk.

The body of an animal, apart from the head and limbs.

The main body of anything; as, the trunk of a vein or of an artery, as distinct from the branches.

That part of a pilaster which is between the base and the capital, corresponding to the shaft of a column.

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.

The proboscis of an elephant.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

To lop off; to curtail; to truncate; to maim.

The main stem of a tree; usually covered with bark; the bole is usually the part that is commercially useful for lumber

Luggage consisting of a large strong case used when traveling or for storage

The body excluding the head and neck and limbs;

Compartment in an automobile that carries luggage or shopping or tools;

A long flexible snout as of an elephant