Sekirov Dictionary

box

UK /bɒks/US /bɑks/

noun43

  1. an object with flat sides and space inside for keeping things, often with a top that opens
  2. A compartment (as a drawer) of an item of furniture used for storage, such as a cupboard, a shelf, etc.
  3. A compartment or receptacle for receiving items.
  4. A numbered receptacle at a newspaper office for anonymous replies to advertisements; see also box number.
  5. (euphemistic) A coffin.
  6. Ellipsis of stashbox.
  7. A rectangle: an oblong or a square.
  8. The rectangle in which the batter stands.
  9. The penalty area.
  10. A rectangular object in any number of dimensions.
  11. A cuboid container and its contents; as much as fills such a container.
  12. A compartment to sit inside in an auditorium, courtroom, theatre, or other building.
  13. (slang) The television.
  14. Any of various evergreen shrubs or trees of genus Buxus, especially common box, European box, or boxwood (Buxus sempervirens) which is often used for making hedges and topiary.
  15. (figurative) A predicament or trap.
  16. A small rectangular shelter.
  17. Ellipsis of signal box.
  18. (slang) A computer, or the case in which it is housed.
  19. (slang) A prison cell.
  20. (slang) A cell used for solitary confinement.
  21. A blow with the fist.
  22. Ellipsis of gearbox.
  23. An area in the pit where the car is repaired and refueled.
  24. (slang, vulgar) The vagina.
  25. A hard protector for the genitals worn inside the underpants by a batsman or close fielder.
  26. The wood from a box tree: boxwood.
  27. (Southern-US, informal) A stringed instrument with a soundbox, especially a guitar.
  28. (slang) A musical instrument, especially one made from boxwood.
  29. (UK, informal) Short for squeeze box (“accordion or concertina”)
  30. Ellipsis of horsebox (“container for transporting horses”).
  31. (slang) A gym dedicated to the CrossFit exercise program.
  32. The driver’s seat on a horse-drawn coach.
  33. A cylindrical casing around the axle of a wheel, a bearing, a gland, etc.
  34. (Australia) An evergreen tree of the genus Lophostemon (for example, box scrub, Brisbane box, brush box, pink box, or Queensland box, Lophostemon confertus).
  35. (Australia) Various species of Eucalyptus trees are popularly called various kinds of boxes, on the basis of the nature of their wood, bark, or appearance for example, drooping box (Eucalyptus bicolor), shiny-leaved box (Eucalyptus tereticornis), black box, or ironbark box trees.
  36. (informal) Ellipsis of box lacrosse (“indoor form of lacrosse”).
  37. (old-fashioned) A small country house.
  38. A diamond-shaped flying formation consisting of four aircraft.
  39. A pattern usually performed with three balls where the movements of the balls make a boxlike shape.
  40. A device used in electric fencing to detect whether a weapon has struck an opponent, which connects to a fencer's weapon by a spool and body wire. It uses lights and sound to notify a hit, with different coloured lights for on target and off target hits.
  41. Synonym of gully (“a certain fielding position”).
  42. One of two specific regions in a promoter.
  43. (old-fashioned) A Mediterranean food fish of the genus Boops, which is a variety of sea bream; a bogue or oxeye.

verb12

  1. To place inside a box; to pack in one or more boxes.
  2. To place a value of a primitive type into a casing object.
  3. To fight against (a person) in a boxing match.
  4. To participate in boxing; to be a boxer.
  5. Usually followed by in: to surround and enclose in a way that restricts movement; to corner, to hem in.
  6. To strike with the fists; to punch.
  7. To enclose with boarding, lathing, etc., so as to conceal (for example, pipes) or to bring to a required form.
  8. To enclose (images, text, etc.) in a box.
  9. To enter the pit.
  10. To furnish (for example, the axle of a wheel) with a box.
  11. To mix two containers of paint of similar colour to ensure that the color is identical.
  12. To make an incision or hole in (a tree) for the purpose of procuring the sap.
forms

boxed · boxing · boxes · boxen

Phrases with box

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