The difference between Boot and Trunk

Boot as a noun (sports):

A heavy shoe that covers part of the leg. A kind of sports shoe worn by players of certain games such as cricket and football.

Boot as a noun:

A blow with the foot; a kick.

Boot as a noun (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.

Boot as a noun:

A torture device used on the feet or legs, such as a Spanish boot.

Boot as a noun (US):

A parking enforcement device used to immobilize a car until it can be towed or a fine is paid; a wheel clamp.

Boot as a noun:

A rubber bladder on the leading edge of an aircraft's wing, which is inflated periodically to remove ice buildup. A deicing boot.

Boot as a noun (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.

Boot as a noun (archaic):

A place for baggage at either end of an old-fashioned stagecoach.

Boot as a noun (US, military, police, slang):

A recently arrived recruit; a rookie.

Boot as a noun (Australia, British, NZ, automotive):

The luggage storage compartment of a sedan or saloon car.

Boot as a noun (informal):

The act or process of removing or firing someone (give someone the boot).

Boot as a noun (British, slang):

unattractive person, ugly woman (usu as "old boot")

Boot as a noun (firearms):

A hard plastic case for a long firearm, typically moulded to the shape of the gun and intended for use in a vehicle.

Boot as a noun (baseball):

A bobbled ball.

Boot as a noun (botany):

The inflated flag leaf sheath of a wheat plant.

Boot as a verb:

To kick.

Boot as a verb:

To put boots on, especially for riding.

Boot as a verb:

To apply corporal punishment (compare slippering).

Boot as a verb (informal):

To forcibly eject.

Boot as a verb (computing, informal):

To disconnect forcibly; to eject from an online service, conversation, etc.

Boot as a verb (slang):

To vomit.

Boot as a noun (archaic, dialectal):

remedy, amends

Boot as a noun (uncountable):

profit, plunder

Boot as a noun (obsolete):

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

Boot as a noun (obsolete):

Profit; gain; advantage; use.

Boot as a noun (obsolete):

Repair work; the act of fixing structures or buildings.

Boot as a noun (obsolete):

A medicinal cure or remedy.

Boot as a verb (transitive, obsolete):

To profit, avail, benefit.

Boot as a verb (transitive, obsolete):

To enrich; to benefit; to give in addition.

Boot as a noun (computing):

The act or process of bootstrapping; the starting or re-starting of a computing device.

Boot as a verb (computing):

To bootstrap; to start a system, e.g. a computer, by invoking its boot process or bootstrap.

Boot as a noun:

A bootleg recording.

Trunk as a noun (biological):

Part of a body. The usually single, more or less upright part of a tree, between the roots and the branches: the tree trunk. The torso. 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.

Trunk as a noun:

A container. 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. 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. The luggage storage compartment of a sedan/saloon style car; a boot

Trunk as a noun:

A channel for flow of some kind. A circuit between telephone switchboards or other switching equipment. A chute or conduit, or a watertight shaft connecting two or more decks. 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. A long tube through which pellets of clay, peas, etc., are driven by the force of the breath. A peashooter A flume or sluice in which ores are separated from the slimes in which they are contained.

Trunk as a noun (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.

Trunk as a noun (transport):

The main line or body of anything. A main line in a river, canal, railroad, or highway system. The part of a pilaster between the base and capital, corresponding to the shaft of a column.

Trunk as a noun:

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.

Trunk as a noun:

Shorts used for swimming (swim trunks).

Trunk as a verb (obsolete):

To lop off; to curtail; to truncate.

Trunk as a verb (mining):

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