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TRUNK
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Traducere în limba română
trunk substantiv
1. trunchi, tulpină, butuc.
2. (anat.) tors, bust, trunchi.
3. plural v. trunk hose şi trunk drawers.
4. (arhit.) corpul coloanei.
5. arteră (de circulaţie), conductă principală.
6. trompă de elefant.
7. (anat.) arteră principală.
8. cufăr de voiaj;
wardrobe trunk geamantan-garderob.
9. puţ de aerisire (în mină); coş, jgheab, uluc.
10. căuş, covăţică (la moară).
11. (sl.) nas.
12. (sl.) imbecil, gogoman, tâmpit.
13. (tel.) Trunks Interurbanul.
14. (amer.) pl. slip (de gimnast, de atlet, de înotător).
Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:
A squirrel, running around the base of the trunk, came full upon him, and gave him a great fright.
(White Fang, de Jack London)
So I addressed the housekeeper; asked her to show me a room, told her I should probably be a visitor here for a week or two, had my trunk conveyed to my chamber, and followed it thither myself: I met Bessie on the landing.
(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)
He stood on the boxes while I faced the trunk, and was gently raising me when Challenger sprang forward and gave me such a thrust with his huge hand that he fairly shot me into the tree.
(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
By my hilt! lads, cried Aylward, jumping upon the fallen trunk, I think that we could not look the girls in the eyes if we let the prince cross the mountains and did not pull string to clear a path for him.
(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Next they came to a bees’-nest in a hollow tree, and there was so much honey that it ran down the trunk; and the two brothers wanted to light a fire under the tree and kill the bees, so as to get their honey.
(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)
The trunk is not affected.
(Acrodermatitis, NCI Thesaurus)
It was a very tall tree, and the trunk was so smooth that no one could climb it; but the Woodman said at once, "I'll chop it down, and then we can get the Scarecrow's clothes."
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, de L. Frank Baum)
The coach drew up; there it was at the gates with its four horses and its top laden with passengers: the guard and coachman loudly urged haste; my trunk was hoisted up; I was taken from Bessie's neck, to which I clung with kisses.
(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)
Wondering what these doings might mean, Alleyne tied his horse to a tree, and was walking amid the trunks towards the inn, when there shot from the entrance a second woman who made also for the trees.
(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It was not until he was deep among the tree trunks that he cast a glance backwards, when he found that he could still see them through the branches on the road above him.
(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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