noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bathing trunks
swimming trunks
trunk call
trunk road
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
black
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There were no features, save mounds below the snow, and the black of trunks .
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But the trees were tall firs, dripping wet with dank bracken underneath among the black trunks .
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They all wore caps and goggles and black trunks and Nutty couldn't tell who was who.
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She puts her arms gingerly and tenderly round an inscrutable black trunk .
main
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Now let us see how the branches grow from the main trunk; at what angle do they grow from the trunk?
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It also explains why it is virtually certain that Britain's main trunk lines will rely on optical fibre.
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It involves cutting down the main trunk to encourage new growth from the edge of the stump.
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As the phrase suggests, a main trunk of cables splits off into branches which supply individual subscribers.
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In a switched-star system, only main trunk lines need handle the full range of signals, to and from subscribers.
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By 1926 there were nine bus routes, although trams still operated all the main trunk routes.
old
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As the oldest trunks fall over, they are replaced by new shoots which appear continually around the base of the tree.
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We are sinewy, old wood, old trunks with fading limbs and few leaves!
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Just find an old trunk , sit down and listen.
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I got dressed and went into the barn and looked for the old wooden trunk near the rear entrance.
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It was an old tin steamer trunk , its corners reinforced with iron shoes.
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So far as possible she hid things, in a cupboard, under her bed, in an old trunk under the stairs.
swimming
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His swimming trunks had a name-tape sewn to the waistband: J. Rossiter.
■ NOUN
call
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It is really the public video trunk call office.
line
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It also explains why it is virtually certain that Britain's main trunk lines will rely on optical fibre.
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A mystery phone number turned out to be a White House trunk line .
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Twenty-five trunk lines went into Chicago and most of them had attendant freight and passenger depots.
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Sewer line: Replacement for trunk line from Napa Street to state Route 163.
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Despite the cost, Telecom is now irrevocably committed to optical fibres in all its new telephone speech and data trunk lines .
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The most efficient way to heat a house is to give each register its own supply duct directly off the trunk lines .
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In a star network, trunk lines carry all the signals to switching points which route selected services to individual subscribers.
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If turns have to be made in the trunk lines , they should have a smooth radius.
lines
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It also explains why it is virtually certain that Britain's main trunk lines will rely on optical fibre.
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The most efficient way to heat a house is to give each register its own supply duct directly off the trunk lines .
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Twenty-five trunk lines went into Chicago and most of them had attendant freight and passenger depots.
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If turns have to be made in the trunk lines , they should have a smooth radius.
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Despite the cost, Telecom is now irrevocably committed to optical fibres in all its new telephone speech and data trunk lines .
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In a star network, trunk lines carry all the signals to switching points which route selected services to individual subscribers.
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The trunk lines called for stations of all sizes from small lean-to flag stations to large city termini.
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Also it is more difficult to provide interactive services because the trunk lines become cluttered with return signals from each branch.
road
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The school is situated half way between Maidstone and Ashford on the A20 trunk road .
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By 1676 it was part of the main Oxford to Coventry road and of course remains as a major trunk road today.
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Yet, on minor roads as well as trunk roads, studies find that standards are declining.
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It enables continued good progress on the A74 and further improvements to the M8 and other trunk roads and local roads.
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Why not a cost-benefit analysis of trunk roads ?
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Patching the cracks and filling in the potholes falls to the County Council everywhere except trunk roads and motorways.
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Some 40 new ones will be opened by 1995 on trunk road alone.
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This completes the link between the A8 and the A1 trunk roads .
route
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Operations should be run by a highly centralized unitary body which would provide services on the trunk routes of the world.
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By 1926 there were nine bus routes , although trams still operated all the main trunk routes.
steamer
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My possessions were a suitcase full of clothes and a steamer trunk full of books.
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He died en route to Los Angeles, locked in a steamer trunk .
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It was an old tin steamer trunk , its corners reinforced with iron shoes.
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So crack open those musty steamer trunks .
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The wealthy girl had every model of Ginny doll and steamer trunks full of clothes for them.
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He had brought them to the hospital in a steamer trunk .
tin
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Did I mention, I discovered a dozen rolls of the original wallpaper in a tin trunk in the attic?
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Bread is baked every day in a tin trunk and all food is cooked over an open fire.
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An enormous tin trunk was brought down from the attic, and systematically packed with everything needed for a month's holiday.
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Keeps them in a tin trunk in his pillbox.
tree
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He was lounging back against the tree trunk a few yards away, consulting his compass and studying the map intently.
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Hiding in the swamp, Sammler lay under a tree trunk , in the mud, under scum.
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Forty feet away was a nest box fixed to a tree trunk at a height of 8 feet above the ground.
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And the tree trunks to black.
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Although they do not need it to fight they are usually armed with a big club made from a tree trunk .
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A mourning cloak butterfly flew up from a tree trunk in the sunshine where it was basking.
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I thought the great central arch of two tree trunks looked like our Blessed Lord's arms holding up the whole Church.
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Gao Yang screamed, too, and banged his head against the tree trunk .
■ VERB
find
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I found them in a trunk in the attic.
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We found all boxes, trunks , cabinets, drawers, some even too small for a baby to hide in.
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Just find an old trunk , sit down and listen.
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And in one case, three teen-age girls were found unconscious in a trunk and rushed to a local hospital.
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In one of the rooms we found trunks of clothes.
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When Jean-Claude took over the space for his piano, he found himself lugging the trunk into the light.
open
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It would be like opening the trunk and the wedding-dress not being there.
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One wanted me to open the trunk .
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Pulling over, Henry throws open the trunk to reveal the blood-spattered body of a rival mafioso.
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I offered to open the trunk .
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Some 40 new ones will be opened by 1995 on trunk road alone.
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The other day for example, at a neighborhood market, I saw a woman carrying grocery bags open her car trunk .
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I opened the trunk again, and Mike and Penny put their bags in.
pack
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No need to pack trunks this time.
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But so did much of what had been packed into that massive trunk .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As the phrase suggests, a main trunk of cables splits off into branches which supply individual subscribers.
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Barbara Molland had found the box in a trunk that stood under the window in Kate's room.
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His powerful trunk and huge belly filled the chair and the yellow cattleman's boots were laced half way up the stout legs.
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Now, this tree is aberrant in that it has two trunks.
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One wanted me to open the trunk .
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Parked on his trunk , Mitchell finished reading the Miami HemId; both the crowd and his optimism began to thin out.
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She knelt by the trunk , flinging aside papers, reaching down and down, scrabbling in the corners.
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She stepped on the emergency brake and got out to help Paul get his suitcase in the trunk .