Trunk vs. Log
Trunknoun
Part of a body.
Trunknoun
The usually single, more or less upright part of a tree, between the roots and the branches: the tree trunk.
Trunknoun
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.
Trunknoun
(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 stem, or body, of a tree, apart from its limbs and roots; the main stem, without the branches; stock; stalk.
Trunknoun
The body of an animal, apart from the head and limbs.
Trunknoun
The main body of anything; as, the trunk of a vein or of an artery, as distinct from the branches.
Trunknoun
That part of a pilaster which is between the base and the capital, corresponding to the shaft of a column.
Trunknoun
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.
Trunknoun
The proboscis of an elephant.
Trunknoun
A long tube through which pellets of clay, p as, etc., are driven by the force of the breath.
Trunknoun
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.
Trunknoun
A flume or sluice in which ores are separated from the slimes in which they are contained.
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
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.
Trunkverb
To lop off; to curtail; to truncate; to maim.
Trunkverb
To extract (ores) from the slimes in which they are contained, by means of a trunk. See Trunk, n., 9.
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;
Trunknoun
compartment in an automobile that carries luggage or shopping or tools;
Trunknoun
a long flexible snout as of an elephant
Trunknoun
the main woody stem of a tree as distinct from its branches and roots.
Trunknoun
the main part of an artery, nerve, or other anatomical structure from which smaller branches arise.
Trunknoun
an enclosed shaft or conduit for cables or ventilation.
Trunknoun
a person's or animal's body apart from the limbs and head.
Trunknoun
the elongated, prehensile nose of an elephant.
Trunknoun
a large box with a hinged lid for storing or transporting clothes and other articles.
Trunknoun
an enclosed space at the back of a car for carrying luggage and other goods; a boot.
Lognoun
The trunk of a dead tree, cleared of branches.
Lognoun
Any bulky piece as cut from the above, used as timber, fuel etc.
Lognoun
Anything shaped like a log; a cylinder.
Lognoun
(nautical) A floating device, usually of wood, used in navigation to estimate the speed of a vessel through water.
Lognoun
(figuratively) A blockhead; a very stupid person.
Lognoun
A longboard.
Lognoun
(figuratively) A rolled cake with filling.
Lognoun
(mining) A weight or block near the free end of a hoisting rope to prevent it from being drawn through the sheave.
Lognoun
(vulgar) A piece of feces.
Lognoun
A logbook, or journal of a vessel (or aircraft)'s progress
Lognoun
A chronological record of actions, performances, computer/network usage, etc.
Lognoun
(computer science) Specifically, an append-only sequence of records written to disk
Lognoun
A Hebrew unit of liquid volume (about ⅓{{nbsp}}L).
Lognoun
logarithm.
Logverb
(transitive) To cut trees into logs.
Logverb
(transitive) To cut down (trees).
Logverb
(intransitive) To cut down trees in an area, harvesting and transporting the logs as wood.
Logverb
(transitive) To make, to add an entry (or more) in a log or logbook.
Logverb
(transitive) To travel (a distance) as shown in a logbook
Logverb
(transitive) To travel at a specified speed, as ascertained by chip log.
Lognoun
A Hebrew measure of liquids, containing 2.37 gills.
Lognoun
A bulky piece of wood which has not been shaped by hewing or sawing.
Lognoun
An apparatus for measuring the rate of a ship's motion through the water.
Lognoun
The record of the rate of speed of a ship or airplane, and of the course of its progress for the duration of a voyage; also, the full nautical record of a ship's cruise or voyage; a log slate; a log book.
Lognoun
A record and tabulated statement of the person(s) operating, operations performed, resources consumed, and the work done by any machine, device, or system.
Lognoun
A weight or block near the free end of a hoisting rope to prevent it from being drawn through the sheave.
Lognoun
A record of activities performed within a program, or changes in a database or file on a computer, and typically kept as a file in the computer.
Logverb
To enter in a ship's log book; as, to log the miles run.
Logverb
To record any event in a logbook, especially an event relating to the operation of a machine or device.
Logverb
To engage in the business of cutting or transporting logs for timber; to get out logs.
Logverb
To move to and fro; to rock.
Lognoun
a segment of the trunk of a tree when stripped of branches
Lognoun
large log at the back of a hearth fire
Lognoun
the exponent required to produce a given number
Lognoun
a written record of messages sent or received;
Lognoun
a written record of events on a voyage (of a ship or plane)
Lognoun
measuring instrument that consists of a float that trails from a ship by a knotted line in order to measure the ship's speed through the water
Logverb
enter into a log, as on ships and planes
Logverb
cut lumber, as in woods and forests
Lognoun
a part of the trunk or a large branch of a tree that has fallen or been cut off
Lognoun
an official record of events during the voyage of a ship or aircraft
Lognoun
a regular or systematic record of incidents or observations
Lognoun
a set of claims for improved pay or conditions, lodged by a trade union on behalf of workers
Lognoun
an apparatus for determining the speed of a ship, originally one consisting of a float attached to a knotted line that is wound on a reel, the distance run out in a certain time being used as an estimate of the vessel's speed.
Lognoun
the Ranfurly Shield, an interprovincial rugby union trophy competed for annually in New Zealand
Lognoun
short for logarithm
Logverb
enter (an incident or fact) in the log of a ship or aircraft or in another systematic record
Logverb
(of a ship, aircraft, or pilot) achieve (a certain distance, speed, or time)
Logverb
make a systematic recording of events, observations, or measurements
Logverb
cut down (an area of forest) in order to exploit the timber commercially
