Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word BOX

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Definitions of BOX

1. The wood from a box tree: boxwood.
2. A blow with the fist.
3. Senses relating to a three-dimensional object or space.
4. Senses relating to a two-dimensional object or space
5. (geometry, by extension) A rectangular object in any number of dimensions.
6. (transitive) To place inside a box; to pack in one or more boxes.
7. (transitive) Usually followed by in: to surround and enclose in a way that restricts movement; to corner, to hem in.
8. (transitive) To mix two containers of paint of similar colour to ensure that the color is identical.
9. (transitive, agriculture) To make an incision or hole in (a tree) for the purpose of procuring the sap.
10. (transitive, architecture) To enclose with boarding, lathing, etc., so as to conceal (for example, pipes) or to bring to a required form.
11. (transitive, engineering) To furnish (for example, the axle of a wheel) with a box.
12. (transitive, graphic design, printing) To enclose (images, text, etc.) in a box.
13. 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.
14. (musical instrument, slang) A musical instrument, especially one made from boxwood.
15. (Australia) An evergreen tree of the genus Lophostemon (for example, box scrub, Brisbane box, brush box, pink box, or Queensland box, Lophostemon confertus).
16. (transitive) To strike with the fists; to punch.
17. (transitive, boxing) To fight against (a person) in a boxing match.
18. (intransitive, stative, boxing) To participate in boxing; to be a boxer.
19. (dated) A Mediterranean food fish of the genus Boops, which is a variety of sea bream; a bogue or oxeye.
20. A surname.
21. A village in Minchinhampton south of, Stroud, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SO8600).
22. A village and cpar near in Corsham, Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref ST8268).
23. (transitive, object-oriented programming) To place a value of a primitive type into a casing object.
24. (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.

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Examples of Using BOX in a Sentence

• Abadeh is the largest city in the Northern Fars Region (South-Central Iran), which is famed for its carved wood-work, made of the wood of pear and box trees.
• His films include mainstream box office hits such as Carrie (1976), Dressed to Kill (1980), Scarface (1983), The Untouchables (1987), and Mission: Impossible (1996), as well as cult favorites such as Sisters (1972), Phantom of the Paradise (1974), Blow Out (1981), Body Double (1984), Casualties of War (1989), and Carlito's Way (1993).
• A point is typically recorded by placing a mark that identifies the player in the box, such as an initial.
• The Doctor travels in the universe and in time using a time travelling spaceship called the TARDIS, which externally appears as a British police box.
• In the following examples each box represents a 'bar' of music (the specific time signature is not relevant).
• Among these are Theogony, which tells the origins of the gods, their lineages, and the events that led to Zeus's rise to power, and Works and Days, a poem that describes the five Ages of Man, offers advice and wisdom, and includes myths such as Pandora's box.
• He is credited with creating box scores, as well as creating the abbreviation "K" that designates a strikeout.
• IMAP was designed with the goal of permitting complete management of an email box by multiple email clients, therefore clients generally leave messages on the server until the user explicitly deletes them.
• In Chinese-speaking countries and regions such as mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore, a karaoke box is called a KTV.
• While many other rifles of its era use an integral box magazine loaded by a charger or stripper clip, the magazine of the Krag–Jørgensen is integral with the receiver (the part of the rifle that houses the operating parts), featuring an opening on the right hand side with a hinged cover.
• Letterboxers hide small, weatherproof boxes in publicly accessible places (like parks) and distribute clues to finding the box in printed catalogs, on one of several websites, or by word of mouth.
• The sport has five versions that have different sticks, fields, rules and equipment: field lacrosse, women's lacrosse, box lacrosse, lacrosse sixes and intercrosse.
• It can be visualized as a Turing machine with a black box, called an oracle, which is able to solve certain problems in a single operation.
• In quantum mechanics, the particle in a box model (also known as the infinite potential well or the infinite square well) describes the movement of a free particle in a small space surrounded by impenetrable barriers.
• The Pandora myth is a kind of theodicy, addressing the question of why there is evil in the world, according to which, Pandora opened a jar (pithos; commonly referred to as "Pandora's box") releasing all the evils of humanity.
• This topology differs from another, perhaps more natural-seeming, topology called the box topology, which can also be given to a product space and which agrees with the product topology when the product is over only finitely many spaces.
• In the thought experiment, a hypothetical cat may be considered simultaneously both alive and dead, while it is unobserved in a closed box, as a result of its fate being linked to a random subatomic event that may or may not occur.
• Sacramento Kings, a National Basketball Association team that uses this abbreviation for box scores and television scoring displays.
• A set-top box (STB), also known as a cable box, receiver, or simply box, and historically television decoder or a converter, is an information appliance device that generally contains a TV tuner input and displays output to a television set, turning the source signal into content in a form that can then be displayed on the television screen or other display device.
• While a TARDIS is capable of disguising itself, the exterior appearance of the Doctor's TARDIS typically mimics a police box, an obsolete type of telephone kiosk that was once commonly seen on streets in Britain in the 1940s and 50s.

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