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noun

a container, case, or receptacle, usually rectangular, of wood, metal, cardboard, etc., and often with a lid or removable cover.

the quantity contained in a box: She bought a box of candy as a gift.

Chiefly British. a gift or present: a Christmas box.

a compartment or section in a public place, shut or railed off for the accommodation of a small number of people, especially in a theater, opera house, sports stadium, etc.

a small enclosure or area in a courtroom, for witnesses or the jury.

a small shelter: a sentry’s box.

British.

a small house, cabin, or cottage, as for use while hunting: a shooting box.
a telephone booth.
a wardrobe trunk.

the driver’s seat on a coach.

the section of a wagon in which passengers or parcels are carried.

Automotive. the section of a truck in which cargo is carried.

the box, Informal. television: Are there any good shows on the box tonight?

part of a page of a newspaper or periodical set off in some manner, as by lines, a border, or white space.

any enclosing, protective case or housing, sometimes including its contents: a gear box; a fire-alarm box.

Baseball.

either of two marked spaces, one on each side of the plate, in which the batter stands.
either of two marked spaces, one outside of first base and the other outside of third, where the coaches stand.
the pitcher’s mound.
the marked space where the catcher stands.

a difficult situation; predicament.

Agriculture. a bowl or pit cut in the side of a tree for collecting sap.

Jazz Slang.

a stringed instrument, as a guitar.
a piano.

Informal.

a phonograph.
a boom box.
a computer.

Slang. a coffin.

verb (used with object)

to put into a box: She boxed the glassware before the movers came.

to enclose or confine as in a box (often followed by in or up).

to furnish with a box.

to form into a box or the shape of a box.

to block so as to keep from passing or achieving better position (often followed by in): The Ferrari was boxed in by two other cars on the tenth lap.

to group together for consideration as one unit: to box bills in the legislature.

Building Trades. to enclose or conceal (a building or structure) as with boarding.

Agriculture. to make a hole or cut in (a tree) for sap to collect.

to mix (paint, varnish, or the like) by pouring from one container to another and back again.

Australian.

to mix groups of sheep that should be kept separated.
to confuse someone or something.

Verb Phrases

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.

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Idioms about box

out of the box, Australian Slang. remarkable or exceptional; extraordinary.

outside the box, Informal. in an innovative or unconventional manner; with a fresh perspective: You have to think outside the box and adapt those strategies to your business.Also out of the box .

Origin of box

First recorded before 1000; Middle English, Old English, probably from Late Latin buxis, a reshaping of Latin pyxis; see boîte, pyx

OTHER WORDS FROM box

boxlike, adjective

Words nearby box

bow window, bowwood, bowwow, bowyangs, bowyer, box, boxball, box beam, box bed, boxberry, boxboard

Other definitions for box (2 of 4)

verb (used with object)

to fight against (someone) in a boxing match.

to strike with the hand or fist, especially on the ear.

verb (used without object)

to fight with the fists; participate in a boxing match; spar.

to be a professional or experienced prizefighter or boxer: He has boxed since he was 16.

noun

a blow, as with the hand or fist: He gave the boy a box on his ear.

Origin of box

First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English box “a blow,” boxen “to beat,” of uncertain origin

Other definitions for box (3 of 4)

noun

an evergreen shrub or small tree of the genus Buxus, especially B. sempervirens, having shiny, elliptic, dark-green leaves, used for ornamental borders, hedges, etc., and yielding a hard, durable wood.

the wood itself.

any of various other shrubs or trees, especially species of eucalyptus.

Origin of box

First recorded before 950; Middle English, Old English, from Latin buxus “boxwood,” from Greek pýxos

Other definitions for box (4 of 4)

verb (used with object)

Nautical. to boxhaul (often followed by off).

Meteorology. to fly around the center of a storm in a boxlike pattern in order to gather meteorological data: to box a storm.

Origin of box

⁴

First recorded in 1745–55; probably from Spanish bojar “to sail around,” earlier boxar, perhaps from Catalan vogir “to (cause to) turn,” ultimately derived from Latin volvere (see revolve); influenced by box¹ (verb)

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Words related to box

carton, crate, pack, package, trunk, wrap, slug, bin, case, casket, chest, coffer, portmanteau, receptacle, confine, encase, buffet, clout, cuff, duke

How to use box in a sentence

A very lightweight option at only one pound, the Pendaflex file box is by far the most easily transportable.
We don’t have to box ourselves in to our present limitations.
It’s thinking outside the box and using the current technology that we already have.
It also includes a USB-C to USB-C charging cable in the box.

Variety reported that box office revenue in South Korea was down 30 to 40 percent in January 2020 compared to previous years.
In response to the screen quota cut, South Korea established a “cinema tax” on the box office.
He goes into some detail into what it took to persuade voters to pass marriage equality at the ballot box in four states in 2012.
How to Train Your Dragon 2, the tenth highest grossing movie in 2014 America, made $22 million at the Korean box office.
By 2012, the marriage equality movement had won in courts and legislatures—but not at the ballot box.
That November, many of us were stunned as voters in four states supported marriage equality at the ballot box.
Beside her was a box of bonbons, which she held out at intervals to Madame Ratignolle.
Now and then the boy who had bought Squinty, and who was taking him home, would look around at his pet in the slatted box.
The little pig in the box felt himself being lifted out of the wagon.
Mrs. Newbolt was cutting splints for her new sun-bonnet out of a pasteboard box.
With a hammer the boy knocked off some of the slats of the small box in which Squinty had made his journey.

British Dictionary definitions for box (1 of 3)

noun

a receptacle or container made of wood, cardboard, etc, usually rectangular and having a removable or hinged lid

Also called: boxful the contents of such a receptacle or the amount it can containhe ate a whole box of chocolates

any of various containers for a specific purposea money box; letter box

(often in combination) any of various small cubicles, kiosks, or sheltersa telephone box or callbox; a sentry box; a signal box on a railway

a separate compartment in a public place for a small group of people, as in a theatre or certain restaurants

a compartment for a horse in a stable or a vehicleSee loosebox, horsebox

British a small country house occupied by sportsmen when following a field sport, esp shooting

a protective housing for machinery or mechanical parts
the contents of such a box
(in combination)a gearbox

a shaped device of light tough material worn by sportsmen to protect the genitals, esp in cricket

a section of printed matter on a page, enclosed by lines, a border, or white space

a central agency to which mail is addressed and from which it is collected or redistributeda post-office box; to reply to a box number in a newspaper advertisement

the central part of a computer or the casing enclosing it

baseball either of the designated areas in which the batter may stand

the raised seat on which the driver sits in a horse-drawn coach

NZ a wheeled container for transporting coal in a mine

Australian and NZ an accidental mixing of herds or flocks

a hole cut into the base of a tree to collect the sap

a device for dividing water into two or more ditches in an irrigation system

an informal name for a coffin

taboo, slang the female genitals

be a box of birds NZ to be very well indeed

the box British informal television

think outside the box or think out of the box to think in a different, innovative, or original manner, esp with regard to business practices, products, systems, etc

tick all the boxes to satisfy all of the apparent requirements for success

out of the box Australian informal outstanding or excellenta day out of the box

verb

(tr) to put into a box

(tr ; usually foll by in or up) to prevent from moving freely; confine

(tr foll by in) printing to enclose (text) within a ruled frame

(tr) to make a cut in the base of (a tree) in order to collect the sap

(tr) Australian and NZ to mix (flocks or herds) accidentally

(tr sometimes foll by up) NZ to confuseI am all boxed up

box the compass nautical to name the compass points in order

Derived forms of box

boxlike, adjective

Word Origin for box

Old English box, from Latin buxus from Greek puxos box ³

British Dictionary definitions for box (2 of 3)

verb

(tr) to fight (an opponent) in a boxing match

(intr) to engage in boxing

(tr) to hit (a person) with the fist; punch or cuff

box clever to behave in a careful and cunning way

noun

a punch with the fist, esp on the ear

Word Origin for box

C14: of uncertain origin; perhaps related to Dutch boken to shunt, push into position

British Dictionary definitions for box (3 of 3)

noun

a dense slow-growing evergreen tree or shrub of the genus Buxus, esp B. sempervirens, which has small shiny leaves and is used for hedges, borders, and garden mazes: family Buxaceae

any of several trees the timber or foliage of which resembles this tree, esp various species of Eucalyptus with rough bark

Word Origin for box

Old English, from Latin buxus

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Other Idioms and Phrases with box

In addition to the idioms beginning with box

box office
box score
box the compass

also see:

in a bind (box)
on one’s soapbox
pandora’s box
stuff the ballot box

The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary
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Pronunciation[edit]

A Rococo snuff box/tabatière (sense 1.1), made between 1761 and 1762

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /bɒks/
(General American) enPR: bäks, IPA^(key): /bɑks/
Rhymes: -ɒks

Etymology 1[edit]

From Middle English box (“container, box, cup”), from Old English box (“box-tree; box, case”),^[1] from Proto-West Germanic *buhs (“box tree; thing made from boxwood; box”), either from Latin buxus (“box tree; thing made from boxwood”), buxum (“box tree; boxwood”) (possibly from πύξος (púxos, “box tree; boxwood”)); or from Late Latin buxis (“box”), Latin pyxis (“small box for medicines or toiletries”) (from Ancient Greek πυξίς (puxís, “box or tablet made of boxwood; box; cylinder”), from πύξος (púxos) + -ῐς (-is, “suffix forming feminine nouns”)).^[2] Doublet of pyx.

If the latter derivation is correct, the word is cognate with Middle Dutch bosse, busse (“jar; tin; round box”) (modern Dutch bos (“wood, forest”), bus (“container, box; bushing of a wheel”)), Old High German buhsa (Middle High German buhse, bühse, modern German Büchse (“box; can”)), Swedish hjulbössa (“wheel-box”).^[2]

The humorous plural form boxen is from box + -en, by analogy with oxen.

Noun[edit]

box (plural boxes or (nonstandard, computing, humorous) boxen)

Senses relating to a three-dimensional object or space.
2. A cuboid space; a cuboid container, often with a hinged lid.
  
  Synonyms: case, package
  - 1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “Stave Two. The First of the Three Spirits.”, in A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 55:
    
    A terrible voice in the hall cried, «Bring down Master Scrooge’s box, there!» and in the hall appeared the schoolmaster himself, who glared on Master Scrooge with a ferocious condescension, and threw him into a dreadful state of mind by shaking hands with him.
  - 1963, Margery Allingham, “The Elopers”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 33:
    
    The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, when modish taste was just due to go clean out of fashion for the best part of the next hundred years.
3. A cuboid container and its contents; as much as fills such a container.
  
  Synonym: boxful
  
  a box of books
  - 1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], 3rd edition, London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], published 1719, →OCLC, page 325:
    
    He brought me also a Box of Sugar, a Box of Flour, a Bag full of Lemons, and two Bottles of Lime-juice, and abundance of other Things: […]
4. A compartment (as a drawer) of an item of furniture used for storage, such as a cupboard, a shelf, etc.
5. A compartment or receptacle for receiving items.
  - 2015 March, Cindy Gerard, chapter 10, in Running Blind, 1st Pocket Books paperback edition, New York, N.Y.: Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 73:
    
    She’d picked up the high-tech phone from a post office box in Toronto a month ago. The key to that box had been mailed to a post office box in New York City. The Russians loved their cloak-and-dagger, particularly former KGB and Spetsnaz, Soviet special forces who ran the mafia, […]
  1. A numbered receptacle at a newspaper office for anonymous replies to advertisements; see also box number.
    - 1924 December 1, “The Broadcaster: A Department that will Find what You Want: A Central Clearing House for All Your Business Wants”, in C. A. Musselman, editor, Automobile Trade Journal, volume XXIX, number 6, Philadelphia, Pa.: Chilton Company, […], →OCLC, page 618, column 2:
      
      Add five words for address if replies are to come to a box number address at any of our offices. These replies are forwarded each day as received, in new envelopes at no extra charge. […] When replying to blind ads be careful to put on your envelope the correct box number and do not enclose original letters of recommendation—send copies.
7. A compartment to sit inside in an auditorium, courtroom, theatre, or other building.
  
  Synonym: loge
  - 1767, [Francesco] Algarotti, “On the Structure of Theatres”, in An Essay on the Opera Written in Italian, London: Printed for L. Davis and C. Reymers, →OCLC, pages 101–102:
    
    There is yet a better manner of arranging the boxes; and for which invention we are indebted to Andrea Sighizzi, the ſcholar of [Francesco] Brizio and Dentone; […] The plan he followed was, that the boxes, according as they were to be removed from the ſtage towards the bottom of the theatre, ſhould continue gradually riſing by ſome inches one above the other, and gradually receding to the ſides by ſome inches; by which means, every box would have a more commodious view of the ſtage; […]
8. The driver’s seat on a horse-drawn coach.
  
  Synonym: box seat
  - 1868 April 18, “Among Russian Peasantry”, in Charles Dickens, editor, All the Year Round. A Weekly Journal. […] With which is Incorporated Household Words, volume XIX, number 469, London: Published at No. 26, Wellington Street; and by Messrs. Chapman and Hall, […]], →OCLC, page 440, column 1:
    
    Next in importance to the Dvornik comes the coachman of a Russian household. He is usually chosen for his fatness and the length of his beard. These seem curious reasons for choosing a coachman in a country where coach-boxes are smaller than anywhere else in the world; but whereas the average breadth of a Russian coach-box is scarcely more than twelve inches at the outside, the average breadth of a Russian coachman is a very different affair.
10. A small rectangular shelter.
  
  Synonyms: shelter, booth
  - 1762, [Laurence Sterne], chapter XXII, in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume VI, London: […] T. Becket and P. A. Dehondt, […], →OCLC, page 95:
    
    [M]y uncle Toby […] treated himſelf with a handſome ſentry-box, to ſtand at the corner of the bowling-green, betwixt which point and the foot of the glacis, there was left a little kind of eſplanade for him and the corporal to confer and hold councils of war upon. / —The ſentry-box was in caſe of rain.
11. Short for horsebox (“container for transporting horses”).
  - 1877, Anna Sewell, “Earlshall”, in Black Beauty: […], London: Jarrold and Sons, […], →OCLC, part II, page 101:
    
    He was a fine-looking middle-aged man, and his voice said at once that he expected to be obeyed. He was very friendly and polite to John, and after giving us a slight look, he called a groom to take us to our boxes, and invited John to take some refreshment.
12. (automotive) Short for gearbox.
  - 2000, Bob Foster, Birdum or Bust!, Henley Beach, SA: Seaview Press, page 181:
    
    They were capable of climbing most hills in second low but for this exercise we decided to go for the bottom of the box, just to be sure.
13. (rail transport) Short for signal box.
  - 1960 March, “Talking of Trains: The Slough derailment”, in Trains Illustrated, page 132:
    
    Sparks from the derailed bogie of the train were first noticed by the signalman at Slough West box, who immediately sent to Slough Middle box the «Stop and Examine» signal, followed at once by «Obstruction Danger» when he realised that the coach was derailed.
14. (figuratively) A predicament or trap.
  
  I’m really in a box now.
  - 2000, Dee Henderson, chapter 5, in True Devotion (Uncommon Heroes; book 1), Sisters, Or.: Palisades, →ISBN; republished Carol Stream, Ill.: Tyndale House Publishers, 2005, →ISBN, page 67:
    
    He was going straight for the jugular. «Joe, this didn’t make me afraid. I’ve done rescues before.» / «Then you’ll have no problem saying yes.» / Her eyes narrowed. He was putting her in a box and doing it deliberately. There were times when his kind of leadership made her cringe.
15. (slang) A prison cell.
  - 1993, William S. Burroughs, Oliver Harris, editor, The Letters of William S. Burroughs, 1945–1959, New York: Penguin, →ISBN, page 98:
    
    While sojourning in the box I was greatly impressed by the kindness and decency of the Mexican people.
  1. (slang) A cell used for solitary confinement.
    
    Synonym: hole
    - 2003, Elayne Rapping, Law and Justice as Seen on TV (page 83)
      
      He is fearless and contemptuous, apparently able to withstand any discipline—including nights “in the box” […]
    - 2009, Megan McLemore, Barred from Treatment
      
      He had been in disciplinary confinement (“the box”)—punishment reserved for serious prison offenses—for 14 months.
    - 2020, Erin Hatton, Coerced: Work Under Threat of Punishment (page 89)
      
      […] he explained, “you can go to the box. So, I got a ticket for refusing an order and I went to the box in that situation. […]
16. (euphemistic) A coffin.
  - 2010 March 6, Pauline Rogers, interviewee, “Soldier who lost both legs in Afghanistan wants to return to frontline”, in The Telegraph‎^[1], London, archived from the original on 24 May 2010:
    
    Prior to the explosion we spoke about what would happen if he [Lance-Corporal James Simpson] died and came back in a box and what music he would want at his funeral.
17. (slang) Preceded by the: television.
  
  Synonyms: (Britain) telly, tube, TV
  - 1988, Roald Dahl, “The Ghost”, in Matilda, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN; republished as “The Ghost”, in Matilda, New York, N.Y.: Puffin Books, 2007, →ISBN:
    
    Mr. Wormwood switched on the television. The screen lit up. The programme blared. Mr Wormwood glared at Matilda. She hadn’t moved. She had somehow trained herself by now to block her ears to the ghastly sound of the dreaded box. She kept right on reading, and for some reason this infuriated the father.
18. (slang, vulgar) The vagina.
  
  Synonyms: see Thesaurus:vagina
  - 2015 March, Allison Hobbs; Karen E. Quinones Miller, “Cheryl”, in Hittin’ It Out the Park: A Novel (Zane Presents), trade paperback edition, Largo, Md.: Strebor Books, →ISBN, page 27:
    
    Without warning, he withdrew his finger and drove his tongue inside her creamy, hot box. She gave a sharp intake of breath.
20. (computing, slang) A computer, or the case in which it is housed.
  
  Synonyms: computer, machine; see also Thesaurus:computer
  
  a UNIX box
  - 1996 January 15, Siu Ha Vivian Chu, “DEC vt320 → linux boxen”, in comp.os.linux.networking, Usenet‎^[2], message-ID <4dceos$gg7@morgoth.sfu.ca>:
    
    i can’t seem to find any how-to regarding connecting a terminal to a linux boxen via parallel port …
  - 2002 September 8, Gregory Seidman, “serving debian to redhat boxen”, in muc.lists.debian.user, Usenet‎^[3], message-ID <20020908205128.GA19944@cs.brown.edu>:
    
    Furthermore, it is necessary that all four Linux boxen have the same development environment […]
21. (slang) A gym dedicated to the CrossFit exercise program.
  - 2014 August 8, Courtney Rubin, “CrossFit Flirting: Talk Burpee to Me”, in The New York Times‎^[4], archived from the original on 2022-06-16:
    
    Joshua Newman, until last month a co-owner of CrossFit NYC, which says it is the world’s largest box, recalled a member in the gym’s early days who was nicknamed «Welcoming Committee.»
  - 2017 June 24, Julie Beck, “How CrossFit Acts Like a Religion”, in The Atlantic‎^[5], archived from the original on 2022-12-25:
    
    Ter Kuile says people will sometimes bring their kids to their CrossFit «box,» which is CrossFit for «gym.»
  - 2018 June 21, Mark Hay, “Some CrossFit Gyms Feature Pictures of These Puking, Bleeding Clowns”, in VICE‎^[6], archived from the original on 2022-09-30:
    
    Even CrossFitters disagree on how to read the clowns; some box owners join outsider critics in condemning them as dangerous and distance themselves from boxes that still display them.
  - 2021 August 22, Michael Segalov, quoting Joel Dommett, “Sunday with Joel Dommett: ‘In bed until 10am if I’m feeling fruity’”, in The Guardian‎^[7], archived from the original on 2022-11-29:
    
    This is really sad, but I’d go to this amazing CrossFit box called Tio with barbells outside on the edge of a park so you can enjoy the sunshine. I’d go with friends, we’d play loud music, lift weights and get tanned.
23. (cricket) A hard protector for the genitals worn inside the underpants by a batsman or close fielder.
  
  Synonym: (US) cup
  - 2011, John Duncan, “Rory Bremner”, in Cricket Wonderful Cricket, London: John Blake Publishing, →ISBN:
    
    His [Rory Bremner’s] brilliant story about having his box turned inside out by a delivery from Jeff Thomson – he contrasts it with Andrew Flintoff being hit in the box by Cardigan Connor. [David] Lloyd came up to Flintoff, and said, «Cardigan Connor? You consider it an honour to be hit by Cardigan. Do you remember Jeff Thomson? I was hit amidships by him, and it was not a glancing blow. I was wearing one of those old boxes – you know, the pink ones, like a soap dish. It ended up that everything that was supposed to be inside the box had come outside the box – through the air holes!»
24. (cricket) Synonym of gully (“a certain fielding position”)
25. (engineering) A cylindrical casing around the axle of a wheel, a bearing, a gland, etc.
  - 1844, Thomas Webster; assisted by the late Mrs. [William] Parkes, “[Book XXIII. Carriages.] Chap. VI. Various Details Respecting the Parts of a Carriage.”, in An Encyclopædia of Domestic Economy: […], London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, […], →OCLC, paragraph 6684, page 1124:
    
    In common axles, the wheel is prevented from coming off by a pin, called the linch pin, passing through the end of the axletree arm, the name of the part that the wheel turns upon; but as many serious accidents have happened through the linch pin failing and the wheel coming off, an improved method of securing the latter is now practised, by means of a box called the axletree box, which is contrived to answer the double purpose of keeping on the wheel, and to hold oil, grease, or some lubricating substance for lessening the friction.
27. (fencing) 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.
  - 2009, Suzanne Slade, “Electric Fencing: Get Hooked Up”, in Fencing for Fun!, Mankato, Minn.: Compass Point Books, →ISBN, pages 30–31:
    
    In electric fencing, foil and saber fencers wear lames, which are thin outer jackets that cover their target areas. Lames are made from fabric that conducts electricity. When a fencer touches an opponent’s lame with his or her blade, an electronic signal is sent to the scoring box. A colored light goes on to signal a touch. […] In épée, the whole body is the target, so épée fencers do not need to wear lames. A signal is sent to the scoring box from the épée any time a touch is made.
28. (dated) A small country house.
  - 1782, Frances Burney, Cecilia, III.vi.9:
    
    “I dare say the sheriff, or the mayor and corporation, or some of those sort of people, would give him money enough, for the use of it, to run him up a mighty pretty neat little box somewhere near Richmond.”
  - 1782, William Cowper, “Retirement”, in Poems, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC, page 282:
    
    Suburban villas, highway-ſide retreats, / That dread th’ encroachment of our growing ſtreets, / Tight boxes, neatly ſaſh’d, and in a blaze / With all a July ſun’s collected rays, / Delight the citizen, who gaſping there, / Breathes clouds of duſt and calls it country air.
  - [1840?], [John Mackay] Wilson, “The Runaway”, in Wilson’s Historical, Traditionary, and Imaginative Tales of the Borders, and of Scotland: […], volume VI, number 273, Manchester: Published by James Ainsworth, […]; London: E. T. Brain & Co., […]; New York, N.Y.: R. T. Shannon, →OCLC, page 97:
    
    What can a man know of a country or its people, who, merely passes through the former in a stage coach? […] Such were the arguments by which I induced myself to undertake a pedestrian trip to join my friend at his shooting-box, some hundred and fifty miles from Carlisle, where I had arrived from London; business compelling me to take that route.
29. (colloquial, chiefly Southern US) A stringed instrument with a soundbox, especially a guitar. [from 20th c.]
  - 1937, Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Amistad 2013, p. 123:
    
    So Tea Cake took the guitar and played himself. He was glad of the chance because he hadn’t had his hand on a box since he put his in the pawn shop to get some money to hire a car for Janie soon after he met her.
Senses relating to a two-dimensional object or space
1. A rectangle: an oblong or a square.
  
  Place a tick in the box.
  
  This text would stand out better if we put it in a coloured box.
  - 2009, Natalie M[yra] Rosinsky, “Setting the Scene”, in Write Your Own Graphic Novel, Mankato, Minn.: Compass Point Books, →ISBN, page 16:
    
    [G]raphic novelists must think «inside the box» in some significant ways. Like comic books, each page of a graphic novel usually displays from one to nine outlined boxes with pictures and words that tell a story. Another tradition places the descriptions of events or scenes in smaller rectangles set within panels. These rectangles are called narrative boxes. […] Use narrative boxes with words such as «Far away» or «Meanwhile» to tell readers when you are moving the action somewhere else.
2. (baseball) The rectangle in which the batter stands.
  - 2003, Jim Puhalla; Jeff Krans; Mike Goatley, “Soil”, in Baseball and Softball Fields: Design, Construction, Renovation, and Maintenance, Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, part I (Design and Construction), section 3.3c, page 64:
    
    As anyone who has ever maintained a baseball or softball diamond would agree, the pitcher’s mound and batter’s box present a special challenge. […] Batters dig in at the plate, disturbing the soil and making a hole that base runners must slide across when they approach the plate. To withstand the special stresses on these areas, only clay-based soils provide the necessary soil strength. […] [S]ome manufacturers have introduced clay-based soil products for pitcher’s mounds and batter’s boxes. These products include additives with special binding properties and are specifically designed to resist the stresses applied by the cleats of pitchers and batters.
3. (genetics) One of two specific regions in a promoter.
  - 1990, David De Pomerai, “Gene Organisation and Control”, in From Gene to Animal: An Introduction to the Molecular Biology of Animal Development, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, section 1.3 (Transcriptional Control), page 11:
    
    Similar considerations apply in the case of tRNA genes, where the internal promoter is split into two functional domains (box A and box B) which must be a minimum distance apart […]. The first 11 bp of the internal control region in the Xenopus 5S gene are structurally and functionally homologous to the box A element of tRNA gene promoters, […]
5. (juggling) A pattern usually performed with three balls where the movements of the balls make a boxlike shape.
  - 2010 April, Michael J. Gelb, 5 Keys to High Performance: Juggle Your Way to Success‎^[8], [Prince Frederick, Md.]: Gildan Digital, →ISBN, part III (The Art of Juggling: Expanding Your Influence with Spheres):
    
    Your hands rest on the bottom plane of the box, relaxed and open; forearms are parallel with the ground and elbows close to your body. Balls thrown from your right hand are aimed at the point to the left of center of the top of the box. When you hit this point the ball will land in your left hand. Balls thrown from your left hand are aimed at the point to the right of center of the top of the box.
6. (lacrosse, informal) Short for box lacrosse (“indoor form of lacrosse”).
  - 2003, John Crossingham, “The Essentials” and “Goaltending”, in Bobbie Kalman, editor, Lacrosse in Action (Sports in Action), New York, N.Y.; St. Catharines, Ont.: Crabtree Publishing Company, →ISBN, pages 12 and 30:
    
    [page 12] Field players wear shoes with short spikes, called cleats, on the soles. Box players wear court shoes, which have grooved rubber soles. […] [page 30] Field goalies have larger nets to protect than goalies in box lacrosse have. Box goalies wear more pads.
7. (soccer) The penalty area.
8. (aviation) A diamond-shaped flying formation consisting of four aircraft.

Usage notes[edit]

(computing): the humorous plural form boxen is occasionally used.

Hyponyms[edit]

airbox
apple-box
ballot box
bandbox
bento box
bitty box
black box
blue box
brain box
CAAT box
cable box
call box
cambox
cardboard box
cashbox
check box
Chinese boxes
Christmas box
cigar box
collecting box
combo box
coolbox
dialog box
dogbox
drink box
dropbox
embox
firebox
fishing box
front box
fusebox
fuzz box
gate box
GC box
gearbox
glory box
glove box
Goldberg-Hogness box
grass box
hatbox
haybox
hellbox
Hogness box
homeobox
homoeobox
horse box
horsebox
hot box
hotbox
hunting box
icebox
idiot box
inbox
jewel box
journal box
juice box
jump box
jury box
letterbox
light box
list box
lockbox
loose box
loosebox
love box
lunch box
magic box
marmalade box
matchbox
miter box
mitre box
money box
mud box
musical box
nest box, nesting box
omnibus box
outbox
packing box
paint box
pay box
peg-box
pegbox
penalty box
pepperbox
phone box
pillar box
pillbox
playbox
PO box
police box
poor box
postbox
power box
presentation box
press box
property box
puff box
rattlebox
safe-deposit box
safety-deposit box
saltbox
sandbox
saucebox
search box
seatbox
seedbox
sentry box
set-top box
shoebox
shooting box
side box
signal box
six-yard box
Skinner box
skybox
slushbox
smokebox
snow box
snuffbox
soapbox
sound box
spitbox
spurious box
squawk box
squawkbox
squeezebox
stage box
strongbox
stuffing box
suggestion box
swear box
sweatbox
swell box
telephone box
text box
tick box
tinder box
toolbox
tuck box
tumbling box
upper box
vanity box
versing box
wagon box
wine box
witness box
workbox
yogibogeybox

Derived terms[edit]

18-yard box
a few spanners short of a tool box
About box
agony box
air-box
airbox
apple box
apple-box
Armalite and the ballot box
ask box
axle box, axlebox, axle-box
baby box
bait box
Balaam box
balikbayan box
bandbox
bathing box
batter’s box
be in a box
be in the same box
be in the wrong box
beach box
beatbox
beige box
bidding box
big box
big-box
bike box
bio box
black box warning
black-box function
black-box testing
blind box
blotto box
boom box
box and cox
box and lock
box and needle
box and whisker plot
box and whiskers plot
box art
box bed
box boy
box braids
box breathing
box calf
box camera
box canyon
box car
box coat
box crab
box cutter
box elder maple
box end wrench
box file
box frame
box gable
box girder
box guitar
box Harry
box hockey
box house
box iron
box jelly
box jellyfish
box joint
box junction
box kick
box kite
box lacrosse
box level
box lunch
box lyre
box magazine
box man
box meal
box model
box no.
box number
box of birds
box of chocolates
box of fluffies
box of fluffy ducks
box of ivories
box of matches
box of tricks
box office
box operator
box pleat
box plot
box poison
box profits
box room
box score
box seat
box set
box social
box spanner
box split
box spread
box spring
box stall
box standard
box step
box supper
box tail
box the gnat
box tree moth
box turtle
box van
box wagon
box wine
box wrench, box-wrench
box zither
box-anneal
box-annealing
box-back
box-barrage
box-beam
box-bed
box-bill
box-board
box-calf
box-canyon
box-car
box-cart
box-chronometer
box-churn
box-cloth
box-club
box-coil
box-colored
box-coloured
box-coupling
box-cutter
box-day
box-desk
box-drain
box-drawing character
box-elder
box-feeding
box-fitter
box-food
box-fresh
box-grain
box-groove
box-hand
box-hat
box-head, boxhead
box-hook
box-house
box-iron
box-keeperess
box-key
box-letter
box-level
box-like, boxlike
box-lobby
box-loom
box-man
box-master
box-mattress
box-meat
box-metal
box-money
box-motion
box-nut
box-office
box-office bomb
box-ottoman
box-oyster
box-plan
box-pleated
box-pleating
box-rent
box-sealing tape
box-shutter
box-slater
box-sleigh
box-spring
box-square
box-stair
box-staircase
box-standard
box-staple
box-stone
box-strap
box-string
box-swivel
box-tail
box-tappet
box-tenon
box-ticking
box-timbering
box-to-box midfielder
box-toe
box-tool
box-tortoise
box-trap
box-tricycle
box-turtle
box-valve
box-wallah
boxball
boxboard
boxcar
boxen
boxer
boxfish
boxful
boxkeeper
boxlock
boxmaker
boxmaking
boxroom
boxtop
boxy
brain-box
brainbox
bread box
breadbox
brown box
brown box crab
busy box
butter-box
call-box
cannon box
cardboard-box
cartridge box
cartridge-box
cash box
cash-box
cashbox
cat box
chalk box
charity box
chatterbox
checkbox
cheese box
cheese-box
Chinese box
chocolate box
chocolate-box
Christmas box
Christmas Eve box
cigar box guitar
cigar box guitarist
clack box
clack-box
coach box
coachbox
coachbox
coal-box
coin box
coin-box
cold meat box
collection box
color-box
colour-box
comb-box
combat box
combobox
come from a Cracker Jack box
commentary box
confession box
convergence box
cooking box
cool box
coolbox
Cornell box
country box
coupling-box
court poor box
cox box
cracker-box
crash box
dead-letter box
deed-box
despatch box
dialogue box
dice box
dice-box
dicebox
dig box
Digi-box
digital converter box
dirt-box
dispatch box
dispatch-box
ditty box
ditty-box
dog-box
dogbox
dragbox
dredge-box
dredging box
dredging-box
dressing-box
dressing-up box
driving-box
drop box
drop-box
dropbox
dumb as a box of rocks
dumber than a box of rocks
dust box
dust-box
egg-box
embox
error box
F-box
farebox, fare box
fart box
feed-box
feeding-box
feelie box
feely box
fire box
fire-box
firebox
first-aid box
floor box
flower box
flush-box
fly box
fly-box
fox in the box
fudge box
funnel box
fuse box
fusebox
fuzz box
gearbox
get one’s shine box
glory-box
glovebox
goggle box
goggle-box
gold box
grab box
gray-box testing
green box
grey-box testing
grockle box
grockle-box
group box
happy as a box of birds
hatbox
haybox
haybox
heijunka box
hellbox
hit-box
homeobox
honesty box
horse-box
horsebox
hotbox
hug box
hug-box
hum-box
ice box
icebox
in a box
in-a-box
in-box
inbox
infinity box
inside the box
jack-in-the-box
jaw-box
jazz box
jewel-box
jewelry box
jockey box
juke box
jukebox
junction box
karaoke box
knife-box
knock box
knock out of the box
knowledge-box
letter box
letter-box
letterbox
lick-box
life is like a box of chocolates
litter box
live box
lobster box
lockbox
loose-box
loot box
lunch-box
lunchbox
mad as a box of frogs
magenta box
mail box
mail-box
mailbox
matchbox
mauve box
memory box
missionary-box
mite box
mold box
moneybox
moss-box
moving box
multi box
multi-box
munchie box
munchy box
muscle-box
music box
music-box
nest-box
not the sharpest crayon in the box
not the sharpest tool in the box
off one’s box
olive box
one out of the box
open box
open Pandora’s box
out of one’s box
out of the box
out-box
out-of-box experience
out-of-the-box
outside the box
P-box
paddle box
paddle-box
paintbox
Pandora’s box
pass box
patch box
patch-box
pattern box
peg-box
pegbox
pencil box
pepperbox
permutation box
picture box
pill-box
pillar-box
pillar-box red
pillow box
pine box
pizza box
planter box
play-box
plumber’s box
poison at the box office
poke box
post-box
post-office box
postal box
potato-box
pounce-box
pouncet-box
powder box
powder-box
prattle-box
press-box
Pribnow box
private box
project box
prompt-box
prompter’s box
puff-box
purple box
put someone in a box
puzzle box
rainbow box
rattlebox
resistance box
resistance-box
resonance box
rip box
rose box
S-box
safe deposit box
salt box
salt-box
saltbox
sand box
sandbox
saucebox
savings-box
scent-box
Schumer box
screw box
seed-box
seedbox
sell against the box
service box
set top box
shadow box
shatter box
shoe box
shoe-box
shoebox
show box
show-box
shruti box
shut the box
shuttle box
shuttle-box
side-box
skybox
sluice box
sluice-box
slushbox
smoke-box
smokebox
snake-in-the-box problem
sneeze-box
snuff box
snuff box sea bean
snuff-box
soap box
soap-box
soapbox
soundbox
speak-box
spice-box
spider box
spit box
spitbox
spitting box
squawk box
squawk-box
squeeze box, squeezebox
sruti box
strongbox
strum box
stuff the ballot box
stuffing-box
subscription box
sugar-box
swap box
sweat box
sweat-box
sweatbox
T-box
talk box
tar-box
TATA box
tee box
tee-box
tell-box
textbox
the box they’re going to bury it in
thunderbox, thunder-box
tick all the boxes
tickey box
tickey-box
ticky box
ticky-box
time box
tinder-box
tinderbox
tobacco-box
toby box
toe box
toolbox
touch-box
traffic signal box
tucker box
tucker-box
tumbling-box
unbox
urine box
vanity-box
vaulting box
veg box
vegetable box
violet box
voice box
voice-box
watch-box
water box
weather box
weather-box
weigh-box
white-box testing
whole box and dice
whole box of tricks
window box
window-box
witness-box
work-box
workbox
writing-box
Yankee cheese-box
yellow box
Yerkes discrimination box
yogibogeybox
zoom box
δ-box

Descendants[edit]

Descendants of box

Tok Pisin: bokis
→ Afrikaans: boks
→ Bengali: বাক্স (bakśo)
→ Bulgarian: бокс (boks)
→ Crimean Tatar: boks
→ Danish: boks
→ Dutch: box m
→ Faroese: boks
→ French: box m
→ German: Box f
→ Hindustani:

Hindi: बकस m (bakas), बक्सा m (baksā)

Urdu: بکس‎ m (baks, bakas)
→ Icelandic: box n
→ Indonesian: boks
→ Irish: bosca m
→ Italian: box m
→ Japanese: ボックス (bokkusu)
→ Korean: 박스 (bakseu)
→ Maori: pāka
→ Nepali: बाकस (bākas)
→ Norman: bosc m
→ Norwegian: boks m
→ Pashto: بکس‎ (baks)
→ Persian: باکس‎ (bâks)
→ Polish: boks m
→ Portuguese: box m
→ Rajasthani: बकस (baks, bakas)
→ Russian: бокс m (boks)
→ Scottish Gaelic: bogsa m, bocsa
→ Spanish: box m
→ Swedish: box c
→ Welsh: bocs

Translations[edit]

cuboid space; container

Afrikaans: boks (af)
Akan: adaka
Albanian: kuti (sq) f
Arabic: صُنْدُوق‎ (ar) m (ṣundūq), عُلْبَة‎ f (ʕulba), تَابُوت‎ (ar) m (tābūt)

Egyptian Arabic: علبة‎ f (ʿilba)

Moroccan Arabic: صنْدوقة‎ f (ṣənduqa), بواطة‎ f (bwæṭa)
Armenian: տուփ (hy) (tupʿ), արկղ (hy) (arkł)
Assamese: পেৰা (pera), বাকচ (bakos), জঁপা (zõpa)
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܨܲܢܕܘܼܩܬܵܐ‎ (sānduqta)
Azerbaijani: qutu (az)
Bashkir: йәшник (yäşnik), ҡумта (qumta), ҡап (qap)
Basque: kaxa
Belarusian: каро́бка f (karóbka), скры́нка f (skrýnka), я́шчык m (jáščyk), скры́ня f (skrýnja)
Bengali: বক্স (bokśo), বাক্স (bakśo)
Breton: boest (br) f
Brunei Malay: kutak
Bulgarian: кути́я (bg) f (kutíja), сандъ́к (bg) m (sandǎ́k)
Burmese: သေတ္တာ (my) (setta)
Catalan: capsa (ca) f, caixa (ca) f
Chamicuro: kaja
Chechen: please add this translation if you can
Cherokee: ᎧᏁᏌᎢ (kanesai)
Chinese:

Cantonese: 盒 (hap^6-2), 盒仔 (hap⁶ zai²) (smaller boxes), 箱 (soeng¹) (larger boxes)

Dungan: щёнзы (xi͡onzɨ), хәзы (həzɨ)

Mandarin: 箱子 (zh) (xiāngzi), 箱 (zh) (xiāng), 盒子 (zh) (hézi), 匣子 (zh) (xiázi) (small)

Min Dong: 箱箱 (siŏng-siŏng), 盒盒 (ăk-ăk)

Min Nan: 箱仔 (zh-min-nan) (siuⁿ-á / sioⁿ-á)
Czech: schránka (cs) f, krabice (cs) f, bedna (cs) f
Danish: kasse (da) c, æske c, boks c, skrin n, dåse (da) c
Dutch: doos (nl) f
Egyptian: (pds)
Esperanto: skatolo (eo)
Estonian: karp (et)
Evenki: авса (awsa)
Finnish: laatikko (fi), rasia (fi)
French: boîte (fr) f, caisse (fr) f
Galician: caixa (gl) f, boeta f, cousela f, arca (gl) f, ucha f, barqueta f, baneiro m
Georgian: კოლოფი (ḳolopi), ყუთი (q̇uti)
German: Kasten (de) m, Kiste (de) f, Box (de) f, Karton (de) f (cardboard box)
Greek: κιβώτιο (el) n (kivótio), κουτί (el) n (koutí), κασόνι (el) n (kasóni)

Ancient: κιβωτός f (kibōtós), κιβώτιον n (kibṓtion)
Haitian Creole: bwat
Hausa: sunduƙi
Hebrew: קופסה קֻפְסָה‎ (he) f (kufsá)
Hindi: डिब्बा (hi) m (ḍibbā), संदूक़ (sandūq), बकस (hi) (bakas), बक्स (hi) m (baks), पेटी (hi) f (peṭī)
Hungarian: doboz (hu)
Icelandic: kassi (is) m, box (is) n
Ido: buxo (io), etuyo (io)
Indonesian: kotak (id)
Interlingua: cassa
Irish: bosca m
Italian: scatola (it) f, bussolotto m
Japanese: 箱 (ja) (はこ, hako), 入れ物 (いれもの, iremono)
Kannada: ಪೆಟ್ಟಿಗೆ (kn) (peṭṭige)
Kazakh: қорап (qorap), жәшік (kk) (jäşık)
Khmer: ប្រអប់ (km) (prɑʼɑp), ហិប (km) (həp)
Kikuyu: ithandũkũ class 5
Korean: 상자(箱子) (ko) (sangja), 박스 (ko) (bakseu)
Kyrgyz: коробка (ky) (korobka), куту (ky) (kutu), ящик (ky) (yaşçik)
Ladino: kasha, kutí
Lao: ຫີບ (lo) (hīp), ກ່ອງ (kǭng)
Latin: capsa f, capsula, arca f, riscus m
Latvian: kaste f
Lithuanian: dėžė (lt) f
Luxembourgish: Béchs f
Lü: please add this translation if you can
Macedonian: кутија f (kutija), сандак m (sandak)
Malay: kotak (ms)
Malayalam: പെട്ടി (ml) (peṭṭi)
Maltese: kaxxa f
Maori: pāka
Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
Navajo: tsitsʼaaʼ
Norman: boête f (Jersey)
Northern Thai: please add this translation if you can
Norwegian:

Bokmål: kasse (no) m, boks (no) m, eske (no) m or f, skrin n, øskje f, dåse m
Occitan: caissa (oc) f
Old English: ċist f, box m
Oromo: saanduqa
Pashto: سخوبی‎ m (sxóbay), قوطي‎ m (qotáy), هړپۍ‎ f (harpǝ́y), بکس‎ (ps) m (baks)
Persian: جعبه‎ (fa) (ja’be), باکس‎ (fa) (bâks), صندوق‎ (fa) (sanduq)
Plautdietsch: Kjist f, Lod f
Polish: pudło (pl) n, pudełko (pl) n, skrzynia (pl) f, futerał (pl) f
Portuguese: caixa (pt) f
Punjabi: ਡੱਬਾ m (ḍabbā), ਸੰਦੂਕ (pa) (sandūk)
Romanian: cutie (ro) f
Russian: коро́бка (ru) f (koróbka), я́щик (ru) m (jáščik) (larger), сунду́к (ru) m (sundúk) (chest), футля́р (ru) m (futljár) (case, sheath), шкату́лка (ru) f (škatúlka) (casket), бокс (ru) m (boks)
Scottish Gaelic: bocsa m
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: ку̀тија f, са̀ндук m, шка̀туља f

Roman: kùtija (sh) f, sànduk (sh) m, škàtulja (sh) f
Shan: please add this translation if you can
Slovak: krabica f, škatuľa, debnička
Slovene: škatla (sl) f
Spanish: caja (es) f
Sranan Tongo: dosu
Sudovian: kista f
Swahili: sanduku (sw) class ma
Swedish: ask (sv) c, box (sv) c, bössa (sv) c, dosa (sv) c, kartong (sv) c, kista (sv) c, koffert (sv) c, låda (sv) c, schatull (sv) c, skrin (sv) n
Tagalog: kahon
Tajik: қуттӣ (quttī), ҷаъба (jaʾba), сандуқ (sanduq)
Tamil: பெட்டி (ta) (peṭṭi)
Taos: múluną
Tatar: тартма (tt) (tartma)
Telugu: పెట్టె (te) (peṭṭe)
Thai: กล่อง (th) (glɔ̀ng), หีบ (th) (hìip)
Tibetan: སྒམ། (sgam)
Tlingit: khóok
Tok Pisin: bokis
Turkish: kutu (tr) sandık (tr)
Turkmen: guty
Ugaritic: 𐎀𐎗𐎐 (ảrn)
Ukrainian: коро́бка (uk) f (koróbka), я́щик (uk) m (jáščyk), скри́ня f (skrýnja)
Urdu: ڈبہ‎ m (ḍibbā), صندوق‎ (sandūq)
Uyghur: قۇتا‎ (quta)
Uzbek: quti (uz)
Vietnamese: hộp (vi)
Walloon: boesse (wa) f, låsse (wa) f
Welsh: bocs (cy) m
West Frisian: bokse, kiste c
Yagnobi: сандуқ (sanduq)
Yiddish: קעסטל‎ (kestl)
Yup’ik: yaassiik
Zhuang: please add this translation if you can

as much as fills a box

Armenian: տուփ (hy) (tupʿ), արկղ (hy) (arkł)
Bashkir: йәшник (yäşnik)
Breton: boestad (br) f
Catalan: capsa (ca) f, caixa (ca) f
Chinese:

Mandarin: 一箱 (yī xiāng), 箱 (zh) (xiāng)
Czech: krabice (cs) f, bedna (cs) f
Estonian: karbitäis
Finnish: laatikollinen (fi)
French: boîte (fr) f
Galician: caixada f
Haitian Creole: bwat
Italian: scatola (it) f
Macedonian: кутија f (kutija), сандак m (sandak)
Norman: boêtée f
Portuguese: caixa (pt) f
Romanian: cutie (ro) f
Russian: я́щик (ru) m (jáščik), коро́бка (ru) f (koróbka)
Scottish Gaelic: bocsa m
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: ку̀тија f, са̀ндук m

Roman: kùtija (sh) f, sànduk (sh) m
Slovak: krabica, škatuľa
Spanish: caja (es) f
Swedish: låda (sv) c
Tok Pisin: bokis
Vietnamese: hộp (vi)
Walloon: boeslêye f

compartment or receptacle for receiving items

compartment to sit inside

Bulgarian: ложа f (loža)
Catalan: llotja (ca) f
Chinese:

Mandarin: 證人席／证人席 (zh) (zhèngrén xí) (courtroom), 分隔式雅座 (fēn gé shì yǎzuò) (restaurant), 包廂／包厢 (zh) (bāoxiāng) (theatre)
Czech: lóže (cs) f
Danish: loge c, bås c
Estonian: loož
Finnish: aitio (fi), loosi (fi)
French: (in a theater) loge (fr) f
Galician: palco (gl) m
German: Loge (de) f
Greek: θεωρείο (el) n (theoreío) (theater), εδώλιο (el) n (edólio) (courtroom)
Hungarian: páholy (hu)
Italian: palco (it) m, palchetto (it) m, loggia (it) f
Latin: podium n
Macedonian: ло́жа f (lóža)
Persian: لژ‎ (fa) (lož)
Polish: loża (pl) f
Portuguese: camarote (pt) m
Romanian: lojă (ro) f
Russian: ло́жа (ru) f (lóža)
Spanish: palco (es) m, luneta (es) f
Swedish: avbalkning c, box (sv) c, bås (sv) n, fack (sv) n, loge (sv) c

driver’s seat on a coach

Bulgarian: капра f (kapra)
Czech: kozlík m
Danish: kuskesæde n, buk c
Dutch: bok (nl) m
Estonian: kabiin
Finnish: kuskinpukki
Italian: cabina (it) f
Luxembourgish: Bock m
Macedonian: каби́на f (kabína)
Russian: каби́на (ru) f (kabína)
Swedish: kuskbock (sv) c

small rectangular shelter

Breton: logell (br) f
Catalan: garita (ca) f
Chinese:

Mandarin: 小室 (zh) (xiǎoshì), 亭 (zh) (tíng), 棚 (zh) (péng)
Czech: box (cs) m
Danish: skilderhus n, jagthytte c
Estonian: putka
Finnish: koju (fi), koppi (fi)
French: guérite (fr) f
Galician: gorita f, caritel m
Greek: θάλαμος (el) m (thálamos), φυλάκιο (el) n (fylákio), σκοπιά (el) f (skopiá), οικίσκος (el) m (oikískos)
Italian: garitta (it) f, guardiola f, casotto (it) m, gabbiotto m
Macedonian: бу́тка f (bútka), каби́на f (kabína)
Polish: budka (pl) f
Portuguese: cubículo m
Romanian: cabană (ro) f, baracă (ro) f
Russian: бу́дка (ru) f (búdka), каби́на (ru) f (kabína), каби́нка (ru) f (kabínka)
Scottish Gaelic: bocsa m
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: ку̀тија f

Roman: kùtija (sh) f
Slovak: búdka
Spanish: garita (es) f
Swedish: kur (sv) c, jakthydda c, vaktkur c

(slang) television

Czech: bedna (cs) f
Danish: kassen c
Dutch: (informal) buis (nl) f
Estonian: telekas
Finnish: telkkari (fi), toosa (fi)
French: téloche (fr) f, télé (fr) f, lucarne (fr) f
Greek: χαζοκούτι (el) n (chazokoúti)
Italian: tele (it) f
Polish: pudło (pl)
Portuguese: tevê (pt) f
Russian: я́щик (ru) m (jáščik), те́лик (ru) m (télik)
Scottish Gaelic: bocsa m
Slovak: telka
Spanish: tele (es) f
Walloon: boesse ås imådjes f

(slang, vulgar) the vagina

Danish: dåse (da) c
Dutch: doos (nl) f
Finnish: pesä (fi), toosa (fi), tussu (fi)
French: salle de jeu (fr) f, cheminée (fr) f, boutique (fr) f
German: Dose (de) f
Hungarian: doboz (hu)
Macedonian: ду́нда f (dúnda)
Portuguese: boceta (pt) f
Russian: манда́ (ru) f (mandá)
Tok Pisin: bokis
Walloon: boesse ås sotreyes (wa) f, boesse (wa) f
West Frisian: doaze

(cricket) hard protector for the genitals

(engineering) cylindrical casing

Bulgarian: букса (bg) f (buksa)
Czech: pouzdro (cs) n
Danish: bøsning c, kasse (da) c
Finnish: pesä (fi)
Italian: scatola (it) f, scatola del cambio f
Macedonian: ку́ќиште (kúḱište)
Romanian: cutie (ro) f
Russian: бокс (ru) m (boks)
Swedish: box (sv) c, bössa (sv) c, hylsa (sv) c, låda (sv) c, fodral (sv) n

rectangular border around an image, text, etc.

Danish: ramme (da) c
Dutch: kader (nl) n
Finnish: laatikko (fi)
French: encadré (fr) m, cadre (fr) m
Galician: marco m, gradilla f, caixa (gl) f
Greek: πλαίσιο (el) n (plaísio)
Italian: cornice (it) f, riquadro (it) m
Macedonian: ку́тија f (kútija), ква́драт m (kvádrat)
Persian: کادر‎ (fa) (kâdr)
Russian: квадра́т (ru) m (kvadrát)
Slovak: rámček
Spanish: marco (es) m
Thai: กล่อง (th) (glɔ̀ng), กรอบ (th) (grɔ̀ɔp)
Walloon: cåde (wa) m

small area on a document for a tick mark

Finnish: ruutu (fi)
French: case (fr) f
Galician: casiña f, escaque m
Greek: κουτάκι (el) n (koutáki), τετραγωνίδιο (el) n (tetragonídio)
Hungarian: kocka (hu), négyzet (hu)
Icelandic: reitur (is) m, kassi (is) m
Italian: casella (it) f
Macedonian: ку́тивче n (kútivče), ква́дратче (kvádratče)
Russian: квадра́тик (ru) m (kvadrátik)
Slovak: políčko
Spanish: casilla (es) f

input field on an electronic display — see text box

Verb[edit]

box (third-person singular simple present boxes, present participle boxing, simple past and past participle boxed)

(transitive) To place inside a box; to pack in one or more boxes.
- 1991 August, Karen Motylewski, “Surveying Your Own Institution: What Do You Need to Know?”, in What an Institution Can Do to Survey Its Own Preservation Needs (Technical Leaflet: General Preservation; 508-470-1010), Andover, Mass.: Northeast Document Conservation Center, →OCLC, section V.D.6 (Scrapbooks and Ephemera), page 21; reprinted in Sherry Byrne, Collection Maintenance and Improvement (Preservation Planning Program), Washington, D.C.: Association of Research Libraries, 1993, →ISBN, page 87:
  
  Scrapbooks that have enduring value in their original form should be individually boxed in custom-fitted boxes.
- 2017, B. J. Daniels, “Gun-shy Bride”, in Cold Justice, 2nd Australian paperback edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Harlequin Mills & Boon, →ISBN, chapter 1:
  
  «I best get busy and box up these bones,» she said, suddenly anxious to get moving. […] As she started to step around the grave washed out by last night’s rainstorm, the sun caught on something caught in the mud.
(transitive) Usually followed by in: to surround and enclose in a way that restricts movement; to corner, to hem in.
- 1996, Bill Borcherdt, “The Door Swings Both Ways: When Children Double Bind Their Parents”, in Making Families Work and What to Do when They Don’t: Thirty Guides for Imperfect Parents of Imperfect Children (Haworth Marriage and the Family), New York, N.Y.: The Haworth Press, →ISBN; republished Binghamton, N.Y.: The Haworth Press, 2007, →ISBN, page 65:
  
  A large majority of children seem to delight in emotionally boxing in their parents—setting the double-bind trap by giving the parent two choices but determining ahead of time that neither choice will be sufficient for their satisfaction.
(transitive) To mix two containers of paint of similar colour to ensure that the color is identical.
- 2004, Brian Santos, “Painting Like a Pro”, in Painting Secrets from Brian Santos, the Wall Wizard, Des Moines, Iowa: Meredith Books, →ISBN, page 95:
  
  Straining eliminates lumps in the paint. If the paint has separated, stir the thick paint up from the bottom of each can to free as many lumps as possible. Then box the paint, pouring it all together through a nylon paint strainer and into the bucket. Paint less than one year old usually doesn’t require straining. Older paint might have a thick skin on the top; remove the skin and set it aside. Box the paint, pouring it through a nylon paint strainer into the bucket.
(transitive, agriculture) To make an incision or hole in (a tree) for the purpose of procuring the sap.
- 1918 April, F. L. B., “The Maple Sugar Industry”, in Forest Leaves, volume XVI, number 8 (number 184 overall), Philadelphia, Pa.: Pennsylvania Forestry Association, →OCLC, page 115, column 2:
  
  The early settlers either boxed the tree or cut large slanting gashes, from the lower end of which a rudely fashioned spout conducted the sap to a bucket. This method was very destructive to the tree, and boring was substituted for it.
(transitive, architecture) To enclose with boarding, lathing, etc., so as to conceal (for example, pipes) or to bring to a required form.
(transitive, engineering) To furnish (for example, the axle of a wheel) with a box.
- 1862 February 25, Archibald Alison, judge, “Sarah Hamil, or Docherty, relict of the deceased Daniel Docherty, Agnes Docherty, and Sarah Docherty, residing with her, his daughters and only children, v. James Alexander, Glasgow, Calenderer, defender”, in The Scottish Law Magazine and Sheriff Court Reporter, volume I (New Series), Glasgow: Thomas Murray & Son, […]; Edinburgh: Maclachlan and Stewart, published December 1862, →OCLC, page 41, column 1:
  
  [T]he death of the said deceased Daniel Docherty, while in the defender’s employment as an engineman, […] is alleged to have been owing to the engine house, which contained the engine of which the deceased had charge, being of a dangerous and improper construction, and the fly-wheel not having been boxed in or covered: […]
(transitive, graphic design, printing) To enclose (images, text, etc.) in a box.
(transitive, object-oriented programming) To place a value of a primitive type into a corresponding object.

Synonyms[edit]

(to place inside a box): box up, case, embox, encase, pack, pack up, package

Antonyms[edit]

(place inside a box): unbox, uncase, unpack

Derived terms[edit]

abox
autoboxing
beat boxing
beat-boxing
box in
box up
box-haul
box-hauling
boxed
boxer
boxhaul
boxing
boxing day
boxing week
rebox
unbox

[edit]

box about
box in
box off
box out
box the compass
box up
Boxing Day

Translations[edit]

to place inside a box

Catalan: empaquetar (ca), encapsar (ca)
Chinese:

Mandarin: ^{(please verify)} 裝箱／装箱 (zh) (zhuāngxiāng)
Danish: lægge (da) i en æske, pakke (da) i en æske, kasse (da)
Dutch: inpakken (nl), verpakken (nl)
Estonian: pakkima
Finnish: pakata laatikkoon, pakata laatikoihin, pakata (fi)
French: emboîter (fr), mettre en boîte
Galician: encaixoar, meter
German: verpacken (de), einpacken (de)
Hungarian: csomagol (hu), dobozol (hu)
Ido: enkestigar (io)
Irish: pacáil
Italian: inscatolare
Manx: cur ayns kishtey
Polish: zapakować (pl)
Portuguese: encaixotar (pt)
Slovak: zabaliť
Spanish: encajonar (es)
Swedish: lägga (sv) i en låda (sv)
Tok Pisin: bokisim

to surround and enclose — see hem in

to mix two containers of paint of similar colour to ensure that the colour is identical

(engineering) to furnish with a box

Finnish: koteloida

(object-oriented programming) to place a value of a primitive type into a corresponding object

Finnish: koteloida

Etymology 2[edit]

From Middle English box (“box tree; boxwood”), from Old English box (“box tree”),^[3] from Proto-West Germanic *buhs (“box tree; thing made from boxwood”), from Latin buxus (“box tree; thing made from boxwood”), buxum (“box tree; boxwood”), possibly from πύξος (púxos, “box tree; boxwood”).^[4] Identical to etymology 1; the wood and container senses have existed in parallel since the word’s origin in Latin and Ancient Greek.

Noun[edit]

box (plural boxes)

Any of various evergreen shrubs or trees of genus Buxus, especiallycommon box, European box, or boxwood (Buxus sempervirens) which is often used for making hedges and topiary.
- 1587, Leuinus Lemnius, Thomas Newton, transl., An Herball to the Bible […] ‎^[10], London: Edmund Bollifant, page 207:
  
  And no maruell. For, the leaues of Boxe be deletorious, poiſonous, deadlie, and to the bodie of man very noiſome, dangerous and peſtilent […]
- 1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter V, in Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, pages 130–131:
  
  He strayed down a walk edged with box; with apple trees, pear trees, and cherry trees on one side, and a border on the other, full of all sorts of old-fashioned flowers, stocks, sweet-williams, primroses, pansies, mingled with southernwood, sweet-briar, and various fragrant herbs.
- 2014 November 19, Ambra Edwards, “Topiary: We’re all going bonkers about box [print version: Bonkers about box, 22 November 2014, page G3]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Gardening)‎^[11]:
  
  «Box makes a statement without having to do much: just trim twice a year and keep it weeded. It’s a bit of a lazy gardener’s plant.» This, no doubt, is what makes box so popular with show home developers and city dwellers – there is scarce a balcony or front door anywhere that cannot be improved by a box ball in a pot.
The wood from a box tree: boxwood.
- 1885 April 10, John R. Jackson, “Boxwood and Its Substitutes”, in Journal of the Society of Arts, volume XXXIII, number 1,690, London: Published for the Society by George Bell and Sons, […], page 567, column 1:
  
  Nevertheless, the application of woods other than box for purposes for which that wood is now used would tend to lessen the demand for box, and thus might have an effect in lowering its price.
(music, slang) A musical instrument, especially one made from boxwood.
- 1937, Zora Neale Hurston, chapter 11, in Their Eyes were Watching God: A Novel, Harper Perennial Modern Classics edition, Philadelphia, Pa.; London: J.B. Lippincott Company, →OCLC; Illini Books edition, Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 1978, →ISBN, page 153:
  
  Evenin’, folks. Thought y’all might lak uh lil music this evenin’ so Ah brought long mah box.
(Australia) An evergreen tree of the genus Lophostemon (for example, box scrub, Brisbane box, brush box, pink box, or Queensland box, Lophostemon confertus).
(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, the drooping (Eucalyptus bicolor), shiny-leaved (Eucalyptus tereticornis), black, or ironbark box trees.
- 1909, J. H. Maiden, A Critical Revision of the Genus Eucalyptus, Government of the State of New South Wales:
  
  The name «Black Box» seems to be most generally in use for this species, Eucalyptus boormani; the even better name of «Ironbark Box» (which certainly indicates its affinities) is nearly as frequently in use.

Derived terms[edit]

bastard box
bonnet-box
box alder, box elder
Box Hill
box holly, box-holly
box scrub
box thorn, box-thorn, boxthorn
box-edged
box-gum
box-room
box-slip
box-tree
boxberry
boxen
boxer
boxwood
Brisbane box
brush box
common box
dwarf box
European box
flowering box
grey box
ground box
pink box
prickly box
Queensland box
red box
Tasmanian box

Translations[edit]

shrub or tree of the genus Buxus — See also translations at box tree

Arabic: شَمْشَاد‎ m (šamšād), شَمْشِير‎ m (šamšīr), شَمْشَار‎ m (šamšār), عَثَق‎ m (ʕaṯaq), بُقْس‎ m (buqs)
Albanian: shimshir (sq) m
Aromanian: shimshir m
Armenian: տոսախ (hy) (tosax)
Basque: ezpel
Belarusian: самши́т m (samšít)
Bulgarian: чимши́р m (čimšír), чемши́р (bg) m (čemšír)
Catalan: boix (ca) m
Chinese:

Mandarin: ^{(please verify)} 黃楊木／黄杨木 (zh) (huángyángmù)
Czech: zimostráz (cs) m
Danish: buksbom c
Dutch: buxus (nl), buksboom (nl), buks (nl) m
Esperanto: bukso (eo)
Finnish: koiranpensas (fi), puksipuu (fi)
Franco-Provençal: boués m
French: buis (fr) m
Friulian: bos m
Galician: buxo (gl) m
Georgian: ბზა (ka) (bza)
German: Buchsbaum (de) m, Buchs (de) m
Greek: πυξάρι (el) n (pyxári), τσιμσίρι n (tsimsíri), τσιμισίρι n (tsimisíri)

Ancient: πύξος f (púxos)
Hungarian: puszpáng (hu)
Irish: bucas m, crann bosca m
Italian: bosso (it) m
Jingpho: sadek
Latvian: buksuss m
Lithuanian: buksmedis m
Macedonian: шимшир m (šimšir)
Middle English: box
Norwegian:

Bokmål: buksbom m

Nynorsk: buksbom m
Occitan: bois (oc) m
Persian: شمشاد‎ (fa) (šemšâd)
Polish: bukszpan (pl) m
Portuguese: buxo (pt) m, buxeiro (pt) m, buxeira f
Romanian: cimișir (ro) m
Russian: букс (ru) m (buks), самши́т (ru) m (samšít)
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: шѝмшир m

Roman: šìmšir (sh) m
Sicilian: busciu (scn)
Slovak: krušpán m, boleráz
Spanish: boj (es) m
Swedish: buxbom (sv) c
Turkish:

Ottoman: چمشیر‎ (çimşir), شمشیر‎ (şimşir), شمشار‎ (şimşar), شمشاد‎ (şimşad)

Modern: şimşir (tr)
Ukrainian: самши́т m (samšýt)
Venetian: buso m, bos

tree of the genus Lophostemon

Etymology 3[edit]

A woman practising boxing in Brazil

From Middle English box (“a blow; a stroke with a weapon”);^[5] further origin uncertain. The following etymologies have been suggested:^[6]

Possibly related to Proto-Germanic *boki-, whence Danish bask (“a blow; a stripe”), Danish baske (“to flap, move around, beat violently”), Middle Dutch boke (“a blow, a hit”), bōken (“to slap, strike”) (modern Dutch beuken (“to slap”)), West Frisian bûtse, bûtsje (“to slap”), Saterland Frisian batsje (“to slap”), Low German betschen (“to slap, beat with a flat hand”), Middle High German buc (“a blow, a stroke”), bochen (“to slap, strike”).
Possibly onomatopoeic.
Possibly from box (“cuboid space; container”), perhaps referring to the shape of the fist.
Possibly from Ancient Greek πύξ (púx, “with clenched fist”), πυγμή (pugmḗ, “fist; boxing”).

The verb is from Middle English boxen (“to beat or whip (an animal)”), which is derived from the noun.^[7]

Noun[edit]

box (plural boxes)

A blow with the fist.
- c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 166:
  
  That he hath a neighbourly charitie in him, for he borrowed a boxe of the eare of the Engliſhman, and ſwore he would pay him againe when hee was able : I thinke the Frenchman became his ſuretie, and ſeald vnder for another.
- 1824, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], “The Bold Dragoon, or The Adventure of My Grandfather”, in Tales of a Traveller, part 1 (Strange Stories. […]), Philadelphia, Pa.: H[enry] C[harles] Carey & I[saac] Lea, […], →OCLC, page 62:
  
  And then he whispered something to the girl which made her laugh, and give him a good-humoured box on the ear.
- 1837 May, Boz [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], “Oliver Continues Refractory”, in Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy’s Progress. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], published 1838, →OCLC, page 110:
  
  «Now, you are a nice young fellow, ain’t you?» said Sowerberry, giving Oliver a shake and a box on the ear.

Synonyms[edit]

blow
cuff
punch

Translations[edit]

blow with the fist

Arabic: لَكْمَة‎ f (lakma)

Hijazi Arabic: لَكْمَة‎ f (lakma), بُكس‎ m (buks)
Breton: skouarnad (br) f
Catalan: cop de puny (ca) m
Czech: úder (cs) m
Danish: bokseslag (da) n, slag (da) n
Dutch: vuistslag (nl) m
Finnish: lyönti nyrkillä, isku nyrkillä
French: coup de poing (fr) m
German: Boxhieb m, Boxschlag m
Greek: γροθιά (el) f (grothiá)
Ido: boxar (io)
Italian: pugno (it) m
Portuguese: soco (pt) m
Scottish Gaelic: buille f
Slovak: úder, rana
Spanish: puñetazo (es) m
Swedish: slag (sv) med handen (sv)
Tagalog: suntok
Thai: การชก (th), การต่อย (th)

Verb[edit]

box (third-person singular simple present boxes, present participle boxing, simple past and past participle boxed)

(transitive) To strike with the fists; to punch.

box someone’s ears

Leave this place before I box you!
- 1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter IV, in Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, pages 42–43:
  
  Mrs. Reed soon rallied her spirits: she shook me most soundly, she boxed both my ears, and then left me without a word.
(transitive, boxing) To fight against (a person) in a boxing match.
(intransitive, stative, boxing) To participate in boxing; to be a boxer.

Derived terms[edit]

box clever
box it out
box on (verb)
box oneself into a corner
box someone’s ears
box-on (noun)
BoxAerobics, boxaerobics
boxer
Boxer
boxercise
boxiana
boxing
out-box
shadow-box, shadowbox

Descendants[edit]

⇒ French: boxer
- → Catalan: boxar
⇒ Galician: boxear
⇒ German: boxen
⇒ Portuguese: boxear, boxar
⇒ Spanish: boxear

Translations[edit]

to strike with the fists

Afrikaans: boks (af)
Arabic: لَكَمَ‎ (lakama)
Cherokee: ᏓᏓᏛᏂᎭ (dadadvniha)
Chinese:

Mandarin: 打 (zh) (dǎ)
Czech: uhodit (cs)
Danish: slå (da) på
Finnish: lyödä nyrkillä, iskeä (fi)
French: boxer (fr)
German: boxen (de)
Greek: γρονθοκοπώ (el) (gronthokopó)
Irish: dornáil
Italian: boxare (it)
Macedonian: бо́ксува (bóksuva)
Mandarin: 耳光 (zh) (ěrguāng), 耳光 (zh) (ěrguāng)
Norman: boxer (Jersey)
Persian: بوکس زدن‎ (boks zadan)
Polish: boksować (pl) impf
Portuguese: socar (pt)
Quechua: takay
Russian: ту́зить (ru) impf (túzitʹ), отту́зить (ru) pf (ottúzitʹ)
Scottish Gaelic: buail
Slovak: udrieť, zbiť
Swedish: boxa (sv)
Thai: ชก (th) (chók), ต่อย (th) (dtɔ̀i)

to fight against (a person) in a boxing match

Catalan: boxejar (ca), boxar (ca)
Cherokee: ᏓᏓᏛᏂᎭ (dadadvniha)
Czech: boxovat
Danish: bokse (da) (med)
Dutch: boksen (nl)
Finnish: nyrkkeillä (fi)
French: boxer (fr)
German: boxen (de)
Greek: πυγμαχώ (el) (pygmachó)

Ancient: πυκτεύω (pukteúō)
Hebrew: התאגרף‎ (hit’agréf)
Icelandic: boxa
Irish: dornáil
Italian: boxare (it)
Mandarin: 鬥拳／斗拳 (zh), 斗拳 (zh) (dòuquán)
Maori: motomoto
Norman: boxer (Jersey)
Polish: boksować się (pl) impf (reflexive verb)
Portuguese: boxear
Scottish Gaelic: bocsaig
Slovak: boxovať
Spanish: boxear (es)
Swedish: boxas (sv)
Thai: ชก (th) (chók)
Welsh: paffio (cy), bocsio (cy), cwffio (cy)

to participate in boxing

Czech: boxovat
Danish: bokse (da)
Finnish: nyrkkeillä (fi)
French: boxer (fr)
Greek: πυγμαχώ (el) (pygmachó)

Ancient: πυκτεύω (pukteúō)
Irish: dornáil
Macedonian: бо́ксува (bóksuva)
Mandarin: 參加拳擊比賽／参加拳击比赛, 参加拳击比赛 (cānjiā quánjí bǐsài)
Portuguese: boxear
Scottish Gaelic: bocsaig
Slovak: boxovať
Spanish: boxear (es)

Etymology 4[edit]

The box or bogue (Boops boops), a variety of sea bream

From Latin bōx, from Ancient Greek βῶξ (bôx, “box (marine fish)”), from βοῦς (boûs, “ox”) + ὤψ (ṓps, “eye, view”), a reference to the large size of the fish’s eyes relative to its body.^[8]

Noun[edit]

box (plural boxes)

(dated) A Mediterranean food fish of the genus Boops, which is a variety of sea bream; a bogue or oxeye.
- 1859, Albert Günther, “Fam. 7. SPARIDÆ”, in Catalogue of Acanthopterygian Fishes in the Collection of the British Museum, volume I (Gasterosteidæ, Berycidæ, Percidæ, Aphredoderidæ, Pristipomatidæ, Mullidæ, Sparidæ), London: Printed [by Taylor and Francis by order of the trustees [of the British Museum], →OCLC, page 418:
  
  BOX. Box (Boops), […] In both jaws a single anterior series of broad incisors, notched at the cutting margin; no molars.
- 1860, William Yarrell, “The Bogue”, in John Richardson, editor, Second Supplement to the First Edition of the History of British Fishes, […], London: John Van Voorst, […], →OCLC, page 6:
  
  The Bogue. […] Box or Boops. Generic Character.—Body elongated, rounded, the dorsal and ventral profiles alike, and the general aspect peculiarly trim.
- 1862, Jonathan Couch, A History of the Fishes of the British Islands, volume I, London: Groombridge and Sons, […], →OCLC, page 225:
  
  BOGUE. BOX. OXEYE. […] In some parts of the European side of the Mediterranean the Bogue is a common fish, and where it frequents it is in great abundance.

Translations[edit]

fish of the genus Boops — see bogue

References[edit]

^ “box, n.(2)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 23 August 2018.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 Compare “box, n.²”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1887.
^ “box, n.(1)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 23 August 2018.
^ “box, n.¹”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1887.
^ “box, n.(3)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 23 August 2018.
^ “box, n.³”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1887.
^ “boxen, v.(2)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 23 August 2018; “box, v.²”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1887.
^ “Class IV.—PISCES.”, in Illustrations of Zoology. […], London: Published by John Joseph Griffin and Co., […]; Glasgow: Richard Griffin and Co., 1851, →OCLC, page 112: “Boops. The eyes of the fish belonging to the genus are very large, whence the generic name from the Greek βοῦς, an Ox, and ὤψ, an eye.”

Anagrams[edit]

BXO, OBX

Czech[edit]

box

Noun[edit]

box m

boxing (the sport of boxing)

Declension[edit]

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boxér
boxérky
boxovat

Dutch[edit]