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Trunk vs. Body — What's the Difference?

Trunk vs. Body — What's the Difference?

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Trunk

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

Body

The physical structure, including the bones, flesh, and organs, of a person or an animal
It's important to keep your body in good condition

Trunk

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

Body

The main section of a motor vehicle or aircraft
The body of the aircraft was filled with smoke
The factory had produced more car bodies than needed

Trunk

The elongated, prehensile nose of an elephant.
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Body

The main or central part of something, especially a building or text
The main body of the house was built in 1625

Trunk

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

Body

A large amount or collection of something
Large bodies of seawater
A rich body of Canadian folklore

Trunk

The main woody axis of a tree.

Body

A material object
The path taken by the falling body

Trunk

(Architecture) The shaft of a column.

Body

A full or substantial quality of flavour in wine
Best of all, this wine has body and finish

Trunk

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

Body

A woman's close-fitting stretch garment for the upper body, fastening at the crotch.

Trunk

The thorax of an insect.

Body

(in pottery) a clay used for making the main part of ceramic ware, as distinct from a glaze.

Trunk

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

Body

Give material form to something abstract
He bodied forth the traditional Prussian remedy for all ills

Trunk

A main body, apart from tributaries or appendages.

Body

Build the bodywork of (a motor vehicle)
An era when automobiles were bodied over wooden frames

Trunk

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

Body

The entire material or physical structure of an organism, especially of a human or other animal.

Trunk

A trunk line.

Body

The physical aspect of a person as opposed to the spirit; the flesh.

Trunk

A chute or conduit.

Body

A corpse or carcass.

Trunk

A watertight shaft connecting two or more decks.

Body

The trunk or torso of a human or animal.

Trunk

The housing for the centerboard of a vessel.

Body

The part of a garment covering the torso.

Trunk

A covering over the hatches of a ship.

Body

A human; a person
A kindly body.

Trunk

An expansion chamber on a tanker.

Body

A group of individuals regarded as an entity; a corporation.

Trunk

A cabin on a small boat.

Body

A number of persons, concepts, or things regarded as a group
We walked out in a body.

Trunk

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

Body

(Anatomy) The largest or principal part of an organ; corpus.

Trunk

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

Body

The nave of a church.

Trunk

Trunks Shorts worn for swimming or other athletics.

Body

The content of a book or document exclusive of prefatory matter, codicils, indexes, or appendices.

Trunk

Part of a body.

Body

The passenger- and cargo-carrying part of an aircraft, ship, or other vehicle.

Trunk

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

Body

(Music) The sound box of an instrument.

Trunk

The torso.

Body

A mass of matter that is distinct from other masses
A body of water.
A celestial body.

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.

Body

A collection or quantity, as of material or information
The body of evidence.

Trunk

(heading) A container.

Body

Consistency of substance, as in paint, textiles, or wine
A sauce with body.

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.

Body

(Printing) The part of a block of type underlying the impression surface.

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.

Body

To furnish with a body.

Trunk

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

Body

To give shape to. Usually used with forth
“Imagination bodies forth the forms of things unknown” (Shakespeare).

Trunk

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

Body

To play defense with one's body up against (that of another player) so as to restrict the player's mobility, as in basketball.

Trunk

(heading) A channel for flow of some kind.

Body

To collide with and force (another player) in a certain direction
Bodied him off the puck.

Trunk

A circuit between telephone switchboards or other switching equipment.

Body

Physical frame.

Trunk

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

Body

The physical structure of a human or animal seen as one single organism.
I saw them walking from a distance, their bodies strangely angular in the dawn light.

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.

Body

The fleshly or corporeal nature of a human, as opposed to the spirit or soul.
The body is driven by desires, but the soul is at peace.

Trunk

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

Body

A corpse.
Her body was found at four o'clock, just two hours after the murder.

Trunk

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

Body

A person.
What's a body gotta do to get a drink around here?

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.

Body

(sociology) A human being, regarded as marginalized or oppressed.

Trunk

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

Body

Main section.

Trunk

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

Body

The torso, the main structure of a human or animal frame excluding the extremities (limbs, head, tail).
The boxer took a blow to the body.

Trunk

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

Body

The largest or most important part of anything, as distinct from its appendages or accessories.
The bumpers and front tyres were ruined, but the body of the car was in remarkable shape.

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.

Body

(archaic) The section of a dress extending from the neck to the waist, excluding the arms.
Penny was in the scullery, pressing the body of her new dress.

Trunk

(in the plural) swimming trunks

Body

The content of a letter, message, or other printed or electronic document, as distinct from signatures, salutations, headers, and so on.

Trunk

To lop off; to curtail; to truncate.

Body

A bodysuit.

Trunk

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

Body

(programming) The code of a subroutine, contrasted to its signature and parameters.
In many programming languages, the method body is enclosed in braces.

Trunk

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

Body

Coherent group.

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.

Body

A group of people having a common purpose or opinion; a mass.
I was escorted from the building by a body of armed security guards.

Trunk

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

Body

An organisation, company or other authoritative group.
The local train operating company is the managing body for this section of track.

Trunk

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

Body

A unified collection of details, knowledge or information.
We have now amassed a body of evidence which points to one conclusion.

Trunk

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

Body

Material entity.

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.

Body

Any physical object or material thing.
All bodies are held together by internal forces.

Trunk

The proboscis of an elephant.

Body

(uncountable) Substance; physical presence.
We have given body to what was just a vague idea.

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.

Body

(uncountable) Comparative viscosity, solidity or substance (in wine, colours etc.).
The red wine, sadly, lacked body.

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.

Body

An agglomeration of some substance, especially one that would be otherwise uncountable.
The English Channel is a body of water lying between Great Britain and France.

Trunk

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

Body

(printing) The shank of a type, or the depth of the shank (by which the size is indicated).
A nonpareil face on an agate body

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.

Body

(geometry) A three-dimensional object, such as a cube or cone.

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.

Body

To give body or shape to something.

Trunk

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

Body

To construct the bodywork of a car.

Trunk

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

Body

(transitive) To embody.

Trunk

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

Body

To murder someone.

Trunk

The body excluding the head and neck and limbs;
They moved their arms and legs and bodies

Body

To utterly defeat someone.

Trunk

Compartment in an automobile that carries luggage or shopping or tools;
He put his golf bag in the trunk

Body

To hard counter a particular character build or play style. Frequently used in the passive voice form, get bodied by.

Trunk

A long flexible snout as of an elephant

Body

The material organized substance of an animal, whether living or dead, as distinguished from the spirit, or vital principle; the physical person.
Absent in body, but present in spirit.
For of the soul the body form doth take.For soul is form, and doth the body make.

Body

The trunk, or main part, of a person or animal, as distinguished from the limbs and head; the main, central, or principal part, as of a tree, army, country, etc.
Who set the body and the limbsOf this great sport together?
The van of the king's army was led by the general; . . . in the body was the king and the prince.
Rivers that run up into the body of Italy.

Body

The real, as opposed to the symbolical; the substance, as opposed to the shadow.
Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.

Body

A person; a human being; - frequently in composition; as, anybody, nobody.
A dry, shrewd kind of a body.

Body

A number of individuals spoken of collectively, usually as united by some common tie, or as organized for some purpose; a collective whole or totality; a corporation; as, a legislative body; a clerical body.
A numerous body led unresistingly to the slaughter.

Body

A number of things or particulars embodied in a system; a general collection; as, a great body of facts; a body of laws or of divinity.

Body

Any mass or portion of matter; any substance distinct from others; as, a metallic body; a moving body; an aëriform body.
By collision of two bodies, grindThe air attrite to fire.

Body

Amount; quantity; extent.

Body

That part of a garment covering the body, as distinguished from the parts covering the limbs.

Body

The bed or box of a vehicle, on or in which the load is placed; as, a wagon body; a cart body.

Body

The shank of a type, or the depth of the shank (by which the size is indicated); as, a nonpareil face on an agate body.

Body

A figure that has length, breadth, and thickness; any solid figure.

Body

Consistency; thickness; substance; strength; as, this color has body; wine of a good body.

Body

The central, longitudinal framework of a flying machine, to which are attached the planes or aërocurves, passenger accommodations, controlling and propelling apparatus, fuel tanks, etc. Also called fuselage.
As to the persons who compose the body politic or associate themselves, they take collectively the name of "people", or "nation".
Sol gold is, and Luna silver we threpe (=call), Mars yren (=iron), Mercurie quicksilver we clepe, Saturnus lead, and Jupiter is tin, and Venus coper.

Body

To furnish with, or as with, a body; to produce in definite shape; to embody.
Imagination bodies forthThe forms of things unknown.

Body

The entire physical structure of an organism (especially an animal or human being);
He felt as if his whole body were on fire

Body

Body of a dead animal or person;
They found the body in the lake

Body

A group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity;
The whole body filed out of the auditorium

Body

The body excluding the head and neck and limbs;
They moved their arms and legs and bodies

Body

An individual 3-dimensional object that has mass and that is distinguishable from other objects;
Heavenly body

Body

A collection of particulars considered as a system;
A body of law
A body of doctrine
A body of precedents

Body

The external structure of a vehicle;
The body of the car was badly rusted

Body

The property of holding together and retaining its shape;
When the dough has enough consistency it is ready to bake

Body

The central message of a communication;
The body of the message was short

Body

Invest with or as with a body; give body to

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