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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1 1.2.1 Noun 1.2.1.1 Usage notes 1.2.1.2 Synonyms 1.2.1.3 Derived terms 1.2.1.4 Translations 1.2.2 Verb 1.2.2.1 Synonyms 1.2.2.2 Derived terms 1.2.2.3 Antonyms 1.2.2.4 Translations 1.3 Etymology 2 1.3.1 Noun 1.3.1.1 Synonyms 1.3.1.2 Derived terms 1.3.1.3 Translations 1.4 Etymology 3 1.4.1 Noun 1.4.1.1 Synonyms 1.4.1.2 Translations 1.4.2 Verb 1.4.2.1 Derived terms 1.4.2.2 Translations 2 Czech 2.1 Noun 3 French 3.1 Etymology 3.2 Noun 3.2.1 Derived terms 4 Icelandic 4.1 Noun 4.1.1 Derived terms 5 Italian 5.1 Etymology 5.2 Noun 6 Romanian 6.1 Etymology 1 6.1.1 Noun 6.1.1.1 Synonyms 6.2 Etymology 2 6.2.1 Noun 6.3 Etymology 3 6.3.1 Noun

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[edit] Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /bɒks/, SAMPA: /bQks/
• (US) enPR: bäks, IPA: /bɑːks/, SAMPA: /bA:ks/
•  Audio (US)^{help, file}

  Rhymes: -ɒks

[edit] Etymology 1

Middle English < Old English < Late Latin buxis < Ancient Greek πυξίς (puksis), “‘box’”) from πύξος (puksos), “‘box tree’”). Compare German Büchse.

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box (plural boxes) (see also Usage notes below)

1. A rectangular container, usually with a hinged lid.
2. As much as fills a box.

   a box of books

3. A compartment to sit in at a theater, courtroom or auditorium.
4. A small rectangular shelter like a booth.
5. A rectangular border around an image or section of text.
6. A numbered receptacle at a newspaper office for anonymous replies to advertisements.
7. A trap or predicament.

   I'm really in a box now.

8. The driver's seat on a coach.
9. (cricket) A hard protector for the genitals worn by a batsman or close fielder inside the underpants.
10. (engineering) A cylindrical casing around for example a bearing or gland.
11. (soccer) The penalty area.
12. (computing, slang) A computer, or the case in which it is housed. ^{usage syn. transl.}

    a UNIX box

13. (slang) (with the) Television.
14. (slang) The vagina.

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• (computer): ^{↺  syn. transl.} The whimsical plural boxen is occasionally used.

[edit] Synonyms

• (rectangular container): case, package
• (as much as fills a box): boxful
• (compartment to sit in): loge
• (small shelter like a booth): shelter
• (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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to box (third-person singular simple present boxes, present participle boxing, simple past and past participle boxed)

1. (transitive) To place inside a box.
2. (transitive) (usually with 'in') To hem in.
3. (transitive) (computing) To place a value of a primitive type into a corresponding object.

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• (to place inside a box): box up, case, embox, encase, pack, package, package up
• (to hem in): corner

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• (place inside a box): unbox, uncase, unpack

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[edit] Etymology 2

Middle English < Old English < Latin buxus < Ancient Greek πύξος (puksos), “‘box tree’”).

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box (plural boxes)

1. Any of various evergreen shrubs or trees of the genus Buxus.
2. The wood from a box tree.
   • 1885: the application of woods other than box for purposes for which that wood is now used would tend to lessen the demand for box — Scientific American Supplement, No. 497, July 11, 1885

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• (evergreen shrub or tree): boxwood

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Middle English boxen "to box, beat" from box "a blow, a hit", a common Germanic word. Akin to Middle Dutch boke "a blow, a hit", Middle High German buc "a blow", Danish bask "a blow"

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box (plural boxes)

1. A blow with the fist.

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• (blow with the fist): blow, punch

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to box (third-person singular simple present boxes, present participle boxing, simple past and past participle boxed)

1. (transitive) To strike with the fists.

   box someone’s ears

2. (transitive, Jamaica, African American Vernacular) To punch (a person).

   Leave dis place before I box you.

3. (transitive) To fight against (a person) in a boxing match.
4. (intransitive) To participate in boxing; to be a boxer.

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box

1. boxing (the sport of boxing)

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[edit] French

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English.

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box (plural boxes or box)

1. stall (for a horse), loose box
2. compartment, cubicle
3. garage, lock-up (for a car)

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• box des accusés

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box n.

1. a box
2. (sports) boxing

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• boxa
• boxhanski
• nestisbox

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English

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box m. inv.

1. horsebox
2. garage, lock-up (for a car)
3. (motor racing) pit
4. playpen

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From French boxe.

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box n. (plural boxuri)

1. (sports) boxing (the sport of)
2. A kind of sword.

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• (the sport): pugilat, pugilism, pugilistică

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From French box.

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box

1. bovine leather

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box

1. A breed of bulldog.