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box·ing1    Audio Help   [bok-sing] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.the material used to make boxes or casings.
2.a boxlike enclosure; casing.
3.an act or instance of putting into or furnishing with a box.
[Origin: 1510–20; box1 + -ing1]
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box·ing2    Audio Help   [bok-sing] Pronunciation Key
–noun
the act, technique, or profession of fighting with the fists, with or without boxing gloves.
[Origin: 1705–15; box2 + -ing1]
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box 1    Audio Help   (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    Audio Help   (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·ing 1    Audio Help   (bŏk'sĭng)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. Material used for boxes.
  2. A boxlike covering or enclosure.
  3. The act of enclosing in a box.

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box·ing 2    Audio Help   (bŏk'sĭng)  Pronunciation Key 
n.   The act, activity, or sport of fighting with the fists, especially according to rules requiring the use of boxing gloves and limiting legal blows to those striking above the waist and on the front or sides of the opponent.

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boxing

noun
1. fighting with the fists 
2. the enclosure of something in a package or box [syn: packing] 

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ˈboxing noun
the sport of fighting with the fists
Arabic: مُلاكَمَـه
Chinese (Simplified): 拳击
Chinese (Traditional): 拳擊
Czech: box(ování)
Danish: boksning
Dutch: bokssport
Estonian: poks
Finnish: nyrkkeily
French: boxe
German: das Boxen
Greek: πυγμαχία, μποξ
Hungarian: ökölvívás
Icelandic: hnefaleikur, box
Indonesian: bertinju
Italian: pugilato, boxe
Japanese: ボクシング
Korean: 권투
Latvian: bokss
Lithuanian: boksas
Norwegian: boksing
Polish: boks
Portuguese (Brazil): boxe
Portuguese (Portugal): boxe
Romanian: box
Russian: бокс
Slovak: box
Slovenian: boksanje
Spanish: boxeo
Swedish: boxning
Turkish: boks sporu
See also: box, boxer, boxing-glove

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Main Entry: box·ing
Pronunciation: 'bäk-si[ng]
Function: noun
: construction of the base of a dental cast by building up the walls of animpression while preserving important landmarks

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Boxing

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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Boxing

Box"ing\, n. 1. The act of inclosing (anything) in a box, as for storage or transportation.

2. Material used in making boxes or casings.

3. Any boxlike inclosure or recess; a casing.

4. (Arch.) The external case of thin material used to bring any member to a required form.

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