Box

Etymology 1
box:, from (cf. Dutch bus: 'bush of a wheel', German Büchse: 'id.', Swedish hjulhjulbössa: 'wheel-box'), from  buxis: 'box', from  πυξίς: 'boxwood box', from πύξος: 'box tree'.

Noun

 * 1) A cuboid container, usually with a hinged lid.
 * 2) As much as fills a such a container.
 * a box of books
 * 1) A compartment of a storage furniture, or of a part of such a furniture, such as of a drawer, shelving, etc.
 * 2) A compartment to sit in at a theater, courtroom or auditorium.
 * 3) A small rectangular shelter like a booth.
 * 4) A rectangular border around an image or section of text.
 * 5) A small, empty area on a writable document, delimited by a border, for filling with a tick mark or an ex.
 * 6) An input field on an interactive electronic display.
 * 7) A numbered receptacle at a newspaper office for anonymous replies to advertisements.
 * 8) A trap or predicament.
 * I'm really in a box now.
 * 1) The driver's seat on a coach.
 * 2)  A hard protector for the genitals worn by a batsman or close fielder inside the underpants.
 * 3)  A cylindrical casing around for example a bearing or gland.
 * 4)  The penalty area.
 * 5)  A computer, or the case in which it is housed.
 * a UNIX box
 * 1)  (with the) Television.
 * 2)  The vagina.
 * 3)  coffin.
 * 4)  A pattern usually performed with three balls where the movements of the balls make a boxlike shape.

Synonyms

 * case, package
 * boxful
 * loge
 * shelter
 * square
 * text box
 * box seat
 * gash, pussy, twat
 * telly, tube, TV
 * computer, machine
 * cup

Verb

 * 1)  To place inside a box; to pack in boxes.
 * 2)   To hem in.
 * 3)   To place a value of a primitive type into a corresponding object.
 * 4)  To mix two containers of paint of similar color to ensure that the color is identical.

Synonyms

 * box up, case, embox, encase, pack, package, package up
 * corner

Derived terms

 * abox
 * autoboxing
 * box about
 * boxed
 * boxer
 * box-haul, boxhaul
 * box-hauling
 * box in


 * boxing
 * Boxing Day
 * box off
 * box out
 * box the compass
 * box up

Antonyms

 * unbox, uncase, unpack

Noun

 * 1) Any of various evergreen shrubs or trees of the genus Buxus.
 * 2) Boxwood: the wood from a box tree.

Synonyms

 * boxwood

Derived terms

 * bastard box
 * bonnet-box
 * box alder, box elder
 * boxberry
 * box-edged


 * boxen
 * boxer
 * box-gum
 * box-holly
 * box-room
 * box-slip


 * box-thorn, boxthorn
 * box-tree
 * boxwood
 * flowering box
 * grey box
 * prickly box
 * Queensland box
 * red box
 * Tasmanian box

Noun

 * 1) A blow with the fist.

Synonyms

 * blow, punch

Verb

 * 1)  To strike with the fists.
 * box someone's ears
 * 1)  To punch (a person).
 * Leave dis place before I box you.
 * 1)  To fight against (a person) in a boxing match.
 * 2)  To participate in boxing; to be a boxer.

Derived terms

 * BoxAerobics, boxaerobics
 * box clever
 * Boxer
 * boxer
 * boxercise
 * boxiana


 * boxing
 * box it out
 * box on
 * box-on
 * out-box
 * shadow-box, shadowbox