box

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A wooden box.

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

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Singular
box

Plural
boxes

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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Infinitive
to box

Third person singular
boxes

Simple past
boxed

Past participle
boxed

Present participle
boxing

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

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Singular
box

Plural
boxes

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 boxScientific 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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Singular
box

Plural
boxes

box (plural boxes)

  1. A blow with the fist.
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Infinitive
to box

Third person singular
boxes

Simple past
boxed

Past participle
boxed

Present participle
boxing

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)


This Czech entry was created from the translations listed at boxing. It may be less reliable than other entries, and may be missing parts of speech or additional senses. Please also see box in the Czech Wiktionary. This notice will be removed when the entry is checked. (more information) August 2009


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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 n.

  1. a box
  2. (sports) boxing

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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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From French box.

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box

  1. bovine leather

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box

  1. A breed of bulldog.