trunk vs trunking

trunk

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

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

  • 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. 

  • The main line or body of anything. 

  • A storage compartment fitted behind the seat of a motorcycle. 

  • 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. 

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

  • 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. 

  • In software projects under source control: the most current source tree, from which the latest unstable builds (so-called "trunk builds") are compiled. 

  • A circuit between telephone switchboards or other switching equipment. 

  • A main line in a river, canal, railroad, or highway system. 

  • 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. 

  • The torso. 

  • 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. 

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

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

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

trunking

noun
  • A system of ducts for cables, heating or ventilation. 

  • The movement of containers or packages between a terminal and a transporter's inland facilities, or the scheduled transportation service between locations. 

  • All the electrical and communications cables bundled together and distributed through a building. 

  • Plastic conduit or duct used to conceal and protect electrical wiring. 

  • A two-way radio technique that uses a control channel to automatically assign frequency channels to groups of user radios. 

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