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box1       [boks] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.a container, case, or receptacle, usually rectangular, of wood, metal, cardboard, etc., and often with a lid or removable cover.
2.the quantity contained in a box: She bought a box of candy as a gift.
3.Chiefly British. a gift or present: a Christmas box.
4.post-office box.
5.a compartment or section in a public place, shut or railed off for the accommodation of a small number of people, esp. in a theater, opera house, sports stadium, etc.
6.a small enclosure or area in a courtroom, for witnesses or the jury.
7.a small shelter: a sentry's box.
8.British.
a.a small house, cabin, or cottage, as for use while hunting: a shooting box.
b.a telephone booth.
c.a wardrobe trunk.
9.box stall.
10.the driver's seat on a coach.
11.the section of a wagon in which passengers or parcels are carried.
12.Automotive. the section of a truck in which cargo is carried.
13.the box, Informal. television: Are there any good shows on the box tonight?
14.part of a page of a newspaper or periodical set off in some manner, as by lines, a border, or white space.
15.any enclosing, protective case or housing, sometimes including its contents: a gear box; a fire-alarm box.
16.Baseball.
a.either of two marked spaces, one on each side of the plate, in which the batter stands.
b.either of two marked spaces, one outside of first base and the other outside of third, where the coaches stand.
c.the pitcher's mound.
d.the marked space where the catcher stands.
17.a difficult situation; predicament.
18.Agriculture. a bowl or pit cut in the side of a tree for collecting sap.
19.Jazz Slang.
a.a stringed instrument, as a guitar.
b.a piano.
20.Informal.
a.a phonograph.
b.a boom box.
c.a computer.
21.Slang. a coffin.
22.Slang: Vulgar.
a.the vulva or vagina.
b.basket (def. 9).
–verb (used with object)
23.to put into a box: She boxed the glassware before the movers came.
24.to enclose or confine as in a box (often fol. by in or up).
25.to furnish with a box.
26.to form into a box or the shape of a box.
27.to block so as to keep from passing or achieving better position (often fol. by in): The Ferrari was boxed in by two other cars on the tenth lap.
28.to group together for consideration as one unit: to box bills in the legislature.
29.Building Trades. to enclose or conceal (a building or structure) as with boarding.
30.Agriculture. to make a hole or cut in (a tree) for sap to collect.
31.to mix (paint, varnish, or the like) by pouring from one container to another and back again.
32.Australian.
a.to mix groups of sheep that should be kept separated.
b.to confuse someone or something.
—Verb phrase
33.box out, Basketball. to position oneself between an opposing player and the basket to hinder the opposing player from rebounding or tipping in a shot; block out.
—Idiom
34.out of the box, Australian Slang. remarkable or exceptional; extraordinary.
[Origin: bef. 1000; ME, OE, prob. < LL buxis, a reshaping of L pyxis; see boǐte]

—Related forms
boxlike, adjective
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box2       [boks] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.a blow, as with the hand or fist: He gave the boy a box on his ear.
–verb (used with object)
2.to strike with the hand or fist, esp. on the ear.
3.to fight against (someone) in a boxing match.
–verb (used without object)
4.to fight with the fists; participate in a boxing match; spar.
5.to be a professional or experienced prizefighter or boxer: He has boxed since he was 16.
[Origin: 1300–50; ME box a blow, boxen to beat, of uncert. orig.]
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box3       [boks] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.an evergreen shrub or small tree of the genus Buxus, esp. B. sempervirens, having shiny, elliptic, dark-green leaves, used for ornamental borders, hedges, etc., and yielding a hard, durable wood.
2.the wood itself. Compare boxwood (defs. 1, 2).
3.any of various other shrubs or trees, esp. species of eucalyptus.
[Origin: bef. 950; ME, OE < L buxus boxwood < Gk pýxos]
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box4       [boks] Pronunciation Key
–verb (used with object)
1.Nautical. to boxhaul (often fol. by off).
2.Meteorology. to fly around the center of a storm in a boxlike pattern in order to gather meteorological data: to box a storm.
—Idiom
3.box the compass, Nautical. to recite all of the points of the compass in a clockwise order.
[Origin: 1745–55; prob. < Sp bojar to sail around, earlier boxar, perh. < Catalan vogir to (cause to) turn ≪ L volvere (see revolve); influenced by box1]
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box 1       (bŏks)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
    1. A container typically constructed with four sides perpendicular to the base and often having a lid or cover.
    2. The amount or quantity that such a container can hold.
    3. A separated compartment in a public place of entertainment, such as a theater or stadium, for the accommodation of a small group.
    4. An area of a public place, such as a courtroom or stadium, marked off and restricted for use by persons performing a specific function: a jury box.
    5. An area on a diamond marked by lines designating where the batter may stand.
    6. Any of various designated areas for other team members, such as the pitcher, catcher, and coaches.
    7. An in box.
    8. An out box.
    9. An insulating, enclosing, or protective casing or part in a machine.
    10. A signaling device enclosed in a casing: an alarm box.
    11. Informal A television.
    12. A very large portable radio.
  2. A square or rectangle: Draw a box around your answer.
    1. A separated compartment in a public place of entertainment, such as a theater or stadium, for the accommodation of a small group.
    2. An area of a public place, such as a courtroom or stadium, marked off and restricted for use by persons performing a specific function: a jury box.
    3. An area on a diamond marked by lines designating where the batter may stand.
    4. Any of various designated areas for other team members, such as the pitcher, catcher, and coaches.
    5. An in box.
    6. An out box.
    7. An insulating, enclosing, or protective casing or part in a machine.
    8. A signaling device enclosed in a casing: an alarm box.
    9. Informal A television.
    10. A very large portable radio.
  4. A small structure serving as a shelter: a sentry box.
  5. Chiefly British A small country house used as a sporting lodge: a shooting box.
  6. A box stall.
  7. The raised seat for the driver of a coach or carriage.
  8. Baseball
    1. An area on a diamond marked by lines designating where the batter may stand.
    2. Any of various designated areas for other team members, such as the pitcher, catcher, and coaches.
    3. An in box.
    4. An out box.
    5. An insulating, enclosing, or protective casing or part in a machine.
    6. A signaling device enclosed in a casing: an alarm box.
    7. Informal A television.
    8. A very large portable radio.
  9. Sports A penalty box.
  10. Printing Featured printed matter enclosed by hairlines, a border, or white space and placed within or between text columns.
  11. A hollow made in the side of a tree for the collection of sap.
  12. A post office box.
    1. An in box.
    2. An out box.
    3. An insulating, enclosing, or protective casing or part in a machine.
    4. A signaling device enclosed in a casing: an alarm box.
    5. Informal A television.
    6. A very large portable radio.
    1. An insulating, enclosing, or protective casing or part in a machine.
    2. A signaling device enclosed in a casing: an alarm box.
    3. Informal A television.
    4. A very large portable radio.
  15. A cable box.
    1. Informal A television.
    2. A very large portable radio.
  17. Chiefly British A gift or gratuity, especially one given at Christmas.
  18. An awkward or perplexing situation; a predicament.
  19. Vulgar Slang The vulva and the vagina.

tr.v.   boxed, box·ing, box·es
  1. To pack in a box.
  2. To confine in or as if in a box.
  3. To border or enclose with or as if with a box: Key sections of the report are boxed off.
  4. To provide a housing or case for (a machine part, for example).
    1. To limit the activity or influence of by or as if by creating a restrictive structure or outlining a territory: The legislature was boxed in by its earlier decisions.
    2. Sports To block (a competitor or opponent) from advancing, especially to hinder an opponent from getting a rebound in basketball by placing oneself between the opponent and the basket: was boxed out by the tallest player on the team; was boxed in on the homestretch.
  6. Nautical To boxhaul.
  7. To cut a hole in (a tree) for the collection of sap.
  8. To blend (paint) by pouring alternately between two containers.
  9. To change the shape of (a structure, such as a wall) by applying lath and plaster or boarding.


[Middle English, from Old English, from Late Latin buxis, from Greek puxis, from puxos, box tree.]

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box 2       (bŏks)  Pronunciation Key 
n.   A slap or blow with the hand or fist: a box on the ear.

v.   boxed, box·ing, box·es

v.   tr.
  1. To hit with the hand or fist.
  2. Sports To take part in a boxing match with.

v.   intr.
To fight with the fists or in a boxing match.


[Middle English.]

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box 3       (bŏks)  Pronunciation Key 
n.   pl. box or box·es
    1. Any of several evergreen shrubs or trees of the genus Buxus, especially the Eurasian species B. sempervirens, having opposite, leathery, simple leaves and clusters of unisexual flowers. It is widely grown as a hedge plant.
    2. The hard, light yellow wood of these plants, used to make musical instruments, rulers, inlays, and engraving blocks.
  2. Any of several other shrubs or trees with similar foliage or timber.


[Middle English, from Old English, from Latin buxus, from Greek puxos.]

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box  (n.1.)
O.E. "a wooden container," also "type of shrub," from L.L. buxis, from Gk. pyxis "boxwood box," from pyxos "box tree," of uncertain origin. Slang meaning "vulva" is attested 17c., according to "Dictionary of American Slang;" modern use seems to date from c.WWII, perhaps originally Australian, and on notion of "box of tricks." Box office is 1786; in the fig. sense of "financial element of a performance" it is first recorded 1904. Boxing-day (1849) "first weekday after Christmas," on which postmen and others expect to receive a Christmas present, originally in ref. to the custom of distributing the contents of the Christmas box, which was placed in the church for charity collections.

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box  (n.2.)
"a blow," c.1300, of uncertain origin, possibly related to M.Du. boke, M.H.G. buc and Dan. bask, all meaning "a blow," perhaps imitative. The verb meaning "to fight with the fists" is from 1567. Boxing as a sport is first recorded 1711.

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box

noun
1. a (usually rectangular) container; may have a lid; "he rummaged through a box of spare parts" 
2. private area in a theater or grandstand where a small group can watch the performance; "the royal box was empty" 
3. the quantity contained in a box; "he gave her a box of chocolates" 
4. a predicament from which a skillful or graceful escape is impossible; "his lying got him into a tight corner" [syn: corner] 
5. a rectangular drawing; "the flowchart contained many boxes" 
6. evergreen shrubs or small trees 
7. any one of several designated areas on a ball field where the batter or catcher or coaches are positioned; "the umpire warned the batter to stay in the batter's box" 
8. the driver's seat on a coach; "an armed guard sat in the box with the driver" 
9. separate partitioned area in a public place for a few people; "the sentry stayed in his box to avoid the cold" 
10. a blow with the hand (usually on the ear); "I gave him a good box on the ear" 

verb
1. put into a box; "box the gift, please" [ant: unbox] 
2. hit with the fist; "I'll box your ears!" 
3. engage in a boxing match 

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box

In addition to the idioms beginning with box, also see in a bind (box); on one's soapbox; pandora's box; stuff the ballot box.


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box

The physical location in which brokerage firms and banks place securities for safekeeping. See also free box, open box.

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box computer
1. A computer; especially in the construction "foo box" where foo is some functional qualifier, like "graphics", or the name of an operating system (thus, "Unix box", "MS-DOS box", etc.) "We preprocess the data on Unix boxes before handing it up to the mainframe." The plural "boxen" is sometimes seen.
2. Without qualification in an IBM SNA site, "box" refers specifically to an IBM front-end processor.
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(1994-11-29)

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n.
1. A computer; esp. in the construction `foo box' where foo is some functional qualifier, like `graphics', or the name of an OS (thus, `Unix box', `MS-DOS box', etc.) "We preprocess the data on Unix boxes before handing it up to the mainframe."
2. [IBM] Without qualification but within an SNA-using site, this refers specifically to an IBM front-end processor or FEP /F-E-P/. An FEP is a small computer necessary to enable an IBM mainframe to communicate beyond the limits of the dinosaur pen. Typically used in expressions like the cry that goes up when an SNA network goes down: "Looks like the box has fallen over." (See fall over.) See also IBM, fear and loathing, Blue Glue.

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Box Elder, MT Zip code(s): 59521

Box Elder, SD (city, FIPS 6620) Location: 44.11957 N, 103.07207 W
Population (1990): 2680 (1050 housing units)
Area: 8.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 57719

Box Butte County, NE (county, FIPS 13) Location: 42.21262 N, 103.08218 W
Population (1990): 13130 (5534 housing units)
Area: 2785.2 sq km (land), 6.6 sq km (water)

Box Elder County, UT (county, FIPS 3) Location: 41.51492 N, 113.09714 W
Population (1990): 36485 (11890 housing units)
Area: 14824.3 sq km (land), 2604.9 sq km (water)

Dime Box, TX Zip code(s): 77853

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Box\ (b[o^]ks), n. [As. box, L. buxus, fr. Gr. ?. See Box a case.] (Bot.) A tree or shrub, flourishing in different parts of the world. The common box (Buxus sempervirens) has two varieties, one of which, the dwarf box (B. suffruticosa), is much used for borders in gardens. The wood of the tree varieties, being very hard and smooth, is extensively used in the arts, as by turners, engravers, mathematical instrument makers, etc.

Box elder, the ash-leaved maple (Negundo aceroides), of North America.

Box holly, the butcher's broom (Russus aculeatus).

Box thorn, a shrub (Lycium barbarum).

Box tree, the tree variety of the common box.

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Box\, n.; pl. Boxes [As. box a small case or vessel with a cover; akin to OHG. buhsa box, G. b["u]chse; fr. L. buxus boxwood, anything made of boxwood. See Pyx, and cf. Box a tree, Bushel.]

1. A receptacle or case of any firm material and of various shapes.

2. The quantity that a box contain.

3. A space with a few seats partitioned off in a theater, or other place of public amusement.

Laughed at by the pit, box, galleries, nay, stage. --Dorset.

The boxes and the pit are sovereign judges. --Dryden.

4. A chest or any receptacle for the deposit of money; as, a poor box; a contribution box.

Yet since his neighbors give, the churl unlocks, Damning the poor, his tripple-bolted box. --J. Warton.

5. A small country house. "A shooting box." --Wilson.

Tight boxes neatly sashed. --Cowper.

6. A boxlike shed for shelter; as, a sentry box.

7. (Mach) (a) An axle box, journal box, journal bearing, or bushing. (b) A chamber or section of tube in which a valve works; the bucket of a lifting pump.

8. The driver's seat on a carriage or coach.

9. A present in a box; a present; esp. a Christmas box or gift. "A Christmas box." --Dickens.

10. (Baseball) The square in which the pitcher stands.

11. (Zo["o]l.) A Mediterranean food fish; the bogue.

Note: Box is much used adjectively or in composition; as box lid, box maker, box circle, etc.; also with modifying substantives; as money box, letter box, bandbox, hatbox or hat box, snuff box or snuffbox.

Box beam (Arch.), a beam made of metal plates so as to have the form of a long box.

Box car (Railroads), a freight car covered with a roof and inclosed on the sides to protect its contents.

Box chronometer, a ship's chronometer, mounted in gimbals, to preserve its proper position.

Box coat, a thick overcoat for driving; sometimes with a heavy cape to carry off the rain.

Box coupling, a metal collar uniting the ends of shafts or other parts in machinery.

Box crab (Zo["o]l.), a crab of the genus Calappa, which, when at rest with the legs retracted, resembles a box.

Box drain (Arch.), a drain constructed with upright sides, and with flat top and bottom.

Box girder (Arch.), a box beam.

Box groove (Metal Working), a closed groove between two rolls, formed by a collar on one roll fitting between collars on another. --R. W. Raymond.

Box metal, an alloy of copper and tin, or of zinc, lead, and antimony, for the bearings of journals, etc.

Box plait, a plait that doubles both to the right and the left.

Box turtle or

Box tortoise (Zo["o]l.), a land tortoise or turtle of the genera Cistudo and Emys; -- so named because it can withdraw entirely within its shell, which can be closed by hinged joints in the lower shell. Also, humorously, an exceedingly reticent person. --Emerson.

In a box, in a perplexity or an embarrassing position; in difficulty. (Colloq.)

In the wrong box, out of one's place; out of one's element; awkwardly situated. (Colloq.) --Ridley (1554)

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Box\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Boxed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Boxing.]

1. To inclose in a box.

2. To furnish with boxes, as a wheel.

3. (Arch.) To inclose with boarding, lathing, etc., so as to bring to a required form.

To box a tree, to make an incision or hole in a tree for the purpose of procuring the sap.

To box off, to divide into tight compartments.

To box up. (a) To put into a box in order to save; as, he had boxed up twelve score pounds. (b) To confine; as, to be boxed up in narrow quarters.

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Box\, n. [Cf.Dan. baske to slap, bask slap, blow. Cf. Pash.] A blow on the head or ear with the hand.

A good-humored box on the ear. --W. Irving.

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Box\, v. i. To fight with the fist; to combat with, or as with, the hand or fist; to spar.

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Box\, v. t. To strike with the hand or fist, especially to strike on the ear, or on the side of the head.

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Box\, v. t. [Cf.Sp. boxar, now spelt bojar.] To boxhaul.

To box off (Naut.), to turn the head of a vessel either way by bracing the headyards aback.

To box the compass (Naut.), to name the thirty-two points of the compass in their order.

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Box

for holding oil or perfumery (Mark 14:3). It was of the form of a flask or bottle. The Hebrew word (pak) used for it is more appropriately rendered "vial" in 1 Sam. 10:1, and should also be so rendered in 2 Kings 9:1, where alone else it occurs.

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