Trunk vs. Boot — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Trunk and Boot
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Trunk
The main woody stem of a tree as distinct from its branches and roots.
Boot
A boot, plural boots, is a type of specific footwear. Most boots mainly cover the foot and the ankle, while some also cover some part of the lower calf.
Trunk
A person's or animal's body apart from the limbs and head.
Boot
A sturdy item of footwear covering the foot and ankle, and sometimes also the lower leg
A pair of walking boots
Trunk
The elongated, prehensile nose of an elephant.
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Boot
A hard kick
He got a boot in the stomach
Trunk
A large box with a hinged lid for storing or transporting clothes and other articles.
Boot
An enclosed space at the back of a car for carrying luggage or other goods.
Trunk
The main woody axis of a tree.
Boot
The process of starting a computer and putting it into a state of readiness for operation
A boot disk
Trunk
(Architecture) The shaft of a column.
Boot
As well; in addition
He is a likeable guy, and funny to boot
Images that are precise, revealing, and often beautiful to boot
Trunk
The body of a human or other vertebrate, excluding the head and limbs.
Boot
Kick (something) hard in a specified direction
He ended up booting the ball into the stand
Trunk
The thorax of an insect.
Boot
Start (a computer) and put it into a state of readiness for operation
The menu will be ready as soon as you boot up your computer
The system won't boot from the original drive
Trunk
A proboscis, especially the long prehensile proboscis of an elephant.
Boot
Place a wheel clamp on (an illegally parked car)
Once a car is booted, the owner must pay all fines plus a fee to have the boot removed
Trunk
A main body, apart from tributaries or appendages.
Boot
A durable covering for the foot and part or much of the leg, usually made of leather, fabric, plastic, or rubber.
Trunk
The main stem of a blood vessel or nerve apart from the branches.
Boot
A protective covering, especially a sheath to enclose the base of a floor-mounted gear shift lever in a car or truck.
Trunk
A trunk line.
Boot
Chiefly British An automobile trunk.
Trunk
A chute or conduit.
Boot
A kick.
Trunk
A watertight shaft connecting two or more decks.
Boot
(Slang) An unceremonious dismissal, as from a job. Used with the.
Trunk
The housing for the centerboard of a vessel.
Boot
(Slang) A swift, pleasurable feeling; a thrill.
Trunk
A covering over the hatches of a ship.
Boot
A Denver boot.
Trunk
An expansion chamber on a tanker.
Boot
A marine or navy recruit in basic training.
Trunk
A cabin on a small boat.
Boot
(Computers) The process of starting or restarting a computer.
Trunk
A covered compartment for luggage and storage, generally at the rear of an automobile.
Boot
Boots An instrument of torture, used to crush the foot and leg.
Trunk
A large packing case or box that clasps shut, used as luggage or for storage.
Boot
Chiefly Southern & Midland US See lagniappe.
Trunk
Trunks Shorts worn for swimming or other athletics.
Boot
(Archaic) Advantage; avail.
Trunk
Part of a body.
Boot
To put boots on.
Trunk
The usually single, more or less upright part of a tree, between the roots and the branches.
Boot
To kick
Booted the ball into the goal.
Trunk
The torso.
Boot
(Slang) To discharge unceremoniously.
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.
Boot
(Computers) To start (a computer) by loading an operating system from a disk.
Trunk
(heading) A container.
Boot
To disable (a vehicle) by attaching a Denver boot.
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.
Boot
(Baseball) To misplay (a ground ball).
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.
Boot
To be of help or advantage; avail.
Trunk
The luggage storage compartment of a sedan/saloon-style car.
Boot
A heavy shoe that covers part of the leg.
Trunk
(automotive) A storage compartment fitted behind the seat of a motorcycle.
Boot
(sports) A kind of sports shoe worn by players of certain games such as cricket and football.
Trunk
(heading) A channel for flow of some kind.
Boot
A blow with the foot; a kick.
Trunk
A circuit between telephone switchboards or other switching equipment.
Boot
(construction) A flexible cover of rubber or plastic, which may be preformed to a particular shape and used to protect a shaft, lever, switch, or opening from dust, dirt, moisture, etc.
Trunk
A chute or conduit, or a watertight shaft connecting two or more decks.
Boot
(usually preceded by definite article) A torture device used on the feet or legs, such as a Spanish boot.
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.
Boot
(US) A parking enforcement device used to immobilize a car until it can be towed or a fine is paid; a wheel clamp.
Trunk
(archaic) A long tube through which pellets of clay, peas, etc., are driven by the force of the breath. A peashooter
Boot
(aviation) A rubber bladder on the leading edge of an aircraft’s wing, which is inflated periodically to remove ice buildup; a deicing boot.
Trunk
(mining) A flume or sluice in which ores are separated from the slimes in which they are contained.
Boot
(obsolete) A place at the side of a coach, where attendants rode; also, a low outside place before and behind the body of the coach.
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.
Boot
(archaic) A place for baggage at either end of an old-fashioned stagecoach.
Trunk
The main line or body of anything.
The trunk of a vein or of an artery, as distinct from the branches
Boot
A recently arrived recruit; a rookie.
Trunk
(transport) A main line in a river, canal, railroad, or highway system.
Boot
The luggage storage compartment of a sedan or saloon car.
Trunk
(architecture) The part of a pilaster between the base and capital, corresponding to the shaft of a column.
Boot
The act or process of removing or firing someone (dismissing them from a job or other post).
He was useless so he got the boot.
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.
Boot
An unattractive person, ugly woman.
Old boot
Trunk
(in the plural) swimming trunks
Boot
A black person.
Trunk
To lop off; to curtail; to truncate.
Boot
(firearms) A hard plastic case for a long firearm, typically moulded to the shape of the gun and intended for use in a vehicle.
Trunk
To extract (ores) from the slimes in which they are contained, by means of a trunk.
Boot
(baseball) A bobbled ball.
Trunk
(telecommunication) To provide simultaneous network access to multiple clients by sharing a set of circuits, carriers, channels, or frequencies.
Boot
(botany) The inflated flag leaf sheath of a wheat plant.
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.
Boot
(slang) A linear amplifier used with CB radio.
Trunk
The body of an animal, apart from the head and limbs.
Boot
A tyre.
Trunk
The main body of anything; as, the trunk of a vein or of an artery, as distinct from the branches.
Boot
(US) A crust end-piece of a loaf of bread.
Trunk
That part of a pilaster which is between the base and the capital, corresponding to the shaft of a column.
Boot
Remedy, amends.
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.
Boot
(uncountable) Profit, plunder.
Trunk
The proboscis of an elephant.
Boot
That which is given to make an exchange equal, or to make up for the deficiency of value in one of the things exchanged; compensation; recompense.
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.
Boot
(obsolete) Profit; gain; advantage; use.
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.
Boot
(obsolete) Repair work; the act of fixing structures or buildings.
Trunk
A flume or sluice in which ores are separated from the slimes in which they are contained.
Boot
(obsolete) A medicinal cure or remedy.
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.
Boot
(computing) The act or process of bootstrapping; the starting or re-starting of a computing device.
It took three boots, but I finally got the application installed.
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.
Boot
(informal) A bootleg recording.
Trunk
To lop off; to curtail; to truncate; to maim.
Boot
To kick.
I booted the ball toward my teammate.
Trunk
The main stem of a tree; usually covered with bark; the bole is usually the part that is commercially useful for lumber
Boot
To put boots on, especially for riding.
Trunk
Luggage consisting of a large strong case used when traveling or for storage
Boot
To step on the accelerator of a vehicle for faster acceleration than usual or to drive faster than usual.
The storm is coming fast! Boot it!
We had to boot it all the way there to get to our flight on time.
Trunk
The body excluding the head and neck and limbs;
They moved their arms and legs and bodies
Boot
To apply corporal punishment (compare slippering).
Trunk
Compartment in an automobile that carries luggage or shopping or tools;
He put his golf bag in the trunk
Boot
(informal) To eject; kick out.
We need to boot those troublemakers as soon as possible.
The senator was booted from the committee for unethical behavior.
Trunk
A long flexible snout as of an elephant
Boot
(often with up) To start or restart a computer or other electronic system; to bootstrap.
Boot up the system before 8 a.m. on weekdays.
Boot
To disconnect forcibly; to eject from an online service, conversation, etc.
Boot
(slang) To vomit.
Sorry, I didn’t mean to boot all over your couch.
Boot
To shoot, to kill by gunfire.
Boot
To avail, benefit, profit.
Boot
To benefit, to enrich; to give in addition.
Boot
(computing) To bootstrap; to start a system, e.g. a computer, by invoking its boot process or bootstrap.
When arriving at the office, the first thing I do is boot my machine.
Boot
Remedy; relief; amends; reparation; hence, one who brings relief.
He gaf the sike man his boote.
Thou art boot for many a bruiseAnd healest many a wound.
Next her Son, our soul's best boot.
Boot
That which is given to make an exchange equal, or to make up for the deficiency of value in one of the things exchanged.
I'll give you boot, I'll give you three for one.
Boot
Profit; gain; advantage; use.
Then talk no more of flight, it is no boot.
Helen, to change, would give an eye to boot.
A man's heaviness is refreshed long before he comes to drunkenness, for when he arrives thither he hath but changed his heaviness, and taken a crime to boot.
Boot
A covering for the foot and lower part of the leg, ordinarily made of leather.
Boot
An instrument of torture for the leg, formerly used to extort confessions, particularly in Scotland.
So he was put to the torture, which in Scotland they call the boots; for they put a pair of iron boots close on the leg, and drive wedges between them and the leg.
Boot
A place at the side of a coach, where attendants rode; also, a low outside place before and behind the body of the coach.
Boot
A place for baggage at either end of an old-fashioned stagecoach.
Boot
An apron or cover (of leather or rubber cloth) for the driving seat of a vehicle, to protect from rain and mud.
Boot
The metal casing and flange fitted about a pipe where it passes through a roof.
Boot
Booty; spoil.
Boot
To profit; to advantage; to avail; - generally followed by it; as, what boots it?
What booteth it to others that we wish them well, and do nothing for them?
What subduedTo change like this a mind so far imbuedWith scorn of man, it little boots to know.
What boots to us your victories?
Boot
To enrich; to benefit; to give in addition.
And I will boot thee with what gift besideThy modesty can beg.
Boot
To put boots on, esp. for riding.
Coated and booted for it.
Boot
To punish by kicking with a booted foot.
Boot
To boot one's self; to put on one's boots.
Boot
Footwear that covers the whole foot and lower leg
Boot
British term for the luggage compartment in a car
Boot
The swift release of a store of affective force;
They got a great bang out of it
What a boot!
He got a quick rush from injecting heroin
He does it for kicks
Boot
Protective casing for something that resembles a leg
Boot
An instrument of torture that is used to crush the foot and leg
Boot
The act of delivering a blow with the foot;
He gave the ball a powerful kick
The team's kicking was excellent
Boot
Kick; give a boot to
Boot
Cause to load (an operating system) and start the initial processes;
Boot your computer
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