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- (UK) IPA: /bɒks/, SAMPA: /bQks/
- (US) enPR: bäks, IPA: /bɑːks/, SAMPA: /bA:ks/
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Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɒks
[edit] Etymology 1
Old English box, from Proto-Germanic *buhsiz (cf. Dutch bus 'bush of a wheel', German Büchse 'id.', Swedish hjulbössa 'wheel-box'), from Late Latin buxis 'box', from Ancient Greek πυξίς (pyxis) 'boxwood box', from πύξος (pyxos) 'box tree'.
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box (plural boxes) (see also Usage notes below)
- A cuboid container, usually with a hinged lid.
- As much as fills a such a container.
- a box of books
- A compartment of a storage furniture, or of a part of such a furniture, such as of a drawer, shelving, etc.
- A compartment to sit in at a theater, courtroom or auditorium.
- A small rectangular shelter like a booth.
- A rectangular border around an image or section of text.
- A small, empty area on a writable document, delimited by a border, for filling with a tick mark or an ex.
- An input field on an interactive electronic display.
- A numbered receptacle at a newspaper office for anonymous replies to advertisements.
- A trap or predicament.
- I'm really in a box now.
- The driver's seat on a coach.
- (cricket) A hard protector for the genitals worn by a batsman or close fielder inside the underpants.
- (engineering) A cylindrical casing around for example a bearing or gland.
- (soccer) The penalty area.
- 2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, BBC:
- Poised link-up play between Essien and Lampard set the Ghanaian midfielder free soon after but his left-footed shot from outside the box was too weak.
- 2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, BBC:
- (computing, slang) A computer, or the case in which it is housed. usage syn. transl.
- a UNIX box
- (slang) (with the) Television.
- (slang, offensive) The vagina.
- (euphemistic) coffin.
- (juggling) A pattern usually performed with three balls where the movements of the balls make a boxlike shape.
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- (rectangular container): case, package
- (as much as fills a box): boxful
- (compartment to sit in): loge
- (small shelter like a booth): shelter
- (small area on a document for a tick mark): square
- (input field on an electronic display): text box
- (driver's seat on a coach): box seat
- (coarse slang: the vagina): gash, pussy, twat
- (television): telly (UK), tube, TV
- (computer def. usage transl.): computer, machine
- (protector for the genitals): cup (US)
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box (third-person singular simple present boxes, present participle boxing, simple past and past participle boxed)
- (transitive) To place inside a box; to pack in boxes.
- (transitive) (usually with 'in') To hem in.
- (transitive) (computing) To place a value of a primitive type into a corresponding object.
- (transitive) To mix two containers of paint of similar color to ensure that the color is identical.
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[edit] Etymology 2
Middle English, from Old English, from Latin buxus, from Ancient Greek πύξος (puksos, “box tree”).
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box (plural boxes)
- Any of various evergreen shrubs or trees of the genus Buxus.
- Boxwood: the wood from a box tree.
- 1884, John R. Jackson, “Boxwood and its Substitutes”, reprinted in Journal of the Society of Arts, 1885 April 10, page 567:
- Nevertheless, the application of woods other than box for purposes for which that wood is now used would tend to lessen the demand for box, and thus might have an effect in lowering its price.
- 1884, John R. Jackson, “Boxwood and its Substitutes”, reprinted in Journal of the Society of Arts, 1885 April 10, page 567:
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- (evergreen shrub or tree): boxwood
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[edit] Etymology 3
Middle English boxen (“to box, beat”) and box (“a blow, a hit”), of unknown origin but apparently akin to Middle Dutch boke (“a blow, a hit”), Middle High German buc (“a blow”), Danish bask (“a blow”). See also Ancient Greek πύξ (pux), πυγμή (pugmē) (fist, pugilism)
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box (plural boxes)
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box (third-person singular simple present boxes, present participle boxing, simple past and past participle boxed)
- (transitive) To strike with the fists.
- box someone's ears
- (transitive, Jamaica, African American Vernacular) To punch (a person).
- Leave dis place before I box you.
- (transitive) To fight against (a person) in a boxing match.
- (intransitive) To participate in boxing; to be a boxer.
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- German: boxen
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box m.
- boxing (the sport of boxing)
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English.
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box n.
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English
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box m. inv.
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From French boxe.
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- (the sport): pugilat, pugilism, pugilistică
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From French box.
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box
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box
- A breed of bulldog.
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