How to pronounce “trunk”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• (heading, biology) Part of a body.
• (heading) A container.
• (heading) A channel for flow of some kind.
• (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.
• 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) Ellipsis of swimming trunks.
• [Verb]
• (transitive, obsolete) To lop off; to curtail; to truncate.
• (transitive, mining) To extract (ores) from the slimes in which they are contained, by means of a trunk.
• (telecommunications) To provide simultaneous network access to multiple clients by sharing a set of circuits, carriers, channels, or frequencies.

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