Boxname

• 1

  A surname.

  • The 10-inch increase forecast in the new study, which does not give a timeline, could be much higher if temperatures continue to rise, as they almost certainly will, said Jason Box, a glaciologist at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland who was the paper’s lead author.
• 2

  A village in Minchinhampton parish, south of Stroud, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SO8600).

• 3

  A village and civil parish near Corsham, Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref ST8268).

boxnoun詞源 1/bɒks/

• 1

  Senses relating to a three-dimensional object or space.

  • 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.
  • 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.
• 2

  Senses relating to a three-dimensional object or space.

  • a box of books
  • 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: […]
• 3

  Senses relating to a three-dimensional object or space.

• 4

  Senses relating to a three-dimensional object or space.

  • post box  post office box
  • 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, […]
• 5

  Senses relating to a three-dimensional object or space.

  • 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.
• 6

  Senses relating to a three-dimensional object or space.

  • 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; […]
  • One night he proposed a champagne supper, to which, he said he had invited a friend of his. I consented without hesitation, and soon after we proceeded to an eating house and seating ourselves in a private box, ordered supper.
• 7

  Senses relating to a three-dimensional object or space.

  • 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.
• 8

  Senses relating to a three-dimensional object or space.

  • sentry-box
  • [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.

boxverb詞源 1/bɒks/

• 1

  To place inside a box; to pack in one or more boxes.

  • He also testified that the reason he crated the one machine and boxed the other was because one machine was stronger and the other frailer, and that made it dangerous to crate it.
  • Scrapbooks that have enduring value in their original form should be individually boxed in custom-fitted boxes.
• 2

  Usually followed by in: to surround and enclose in a way that restricts movement; to corner, to hem in.

  • 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.
• 3

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

  • 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.
• 4

  agriculturebusinesslifestyleTo make an incision or hole in (a tree) for the purpose of procuring the sap.

  • 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.
• 5

  architectureTo enclose with boarding, lathing, etc., so as to conceal (for example, pipes) or to bring to a required form.

  • As early as the 1850s, prisons were being made "safer" by boxing in water pipes and enclosing galleries with netting to prevent jumping.
• 6

  engineeringnatural-sciencesphysical-sciencesTo furnish (for example, the axle of a wheel) with a box.

  • [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: […]
• 7

  artsgraphic-designmediaTo enclose (images, text, etc.) in a box.

• 8

  To place a value of a primitive type into a casing object.

boxnoun詞源 2/bɒks/

• 1

  Any of various evergreen shrubs or trees of genus Buxus, especially common box, European box, or boxwood (Buxus sempervirens) which is often used for making hedges and topiary.

  • And no maruell. For, the leaues of Boxe be deletorious, poiſonous, deadlie, and to the bodie of man very noiſome, dangerous and peſtilent[…]
  • 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.
• 2

  The wood from a box tree: boxwood.

  • 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.
• 3

  slangentertainmentlifestylemusicA musical instrument, especially one made from boxwood.

  • Evenin’, folks. Thought y’all might lak uh lil music this evenin’ so Ah brought long mah box.
• 4

  An evergreen tree of the genus Lophostemon (for example, box scrub, Brisbane box, brush box, pink box, or Queensland box, Lophostemon confertus).

• 5

  Various species of Eucalyptus trees are popularly called various kinds of boxes, on the basis of the nature of their wood, bark, or appearance for example, drooping box (Eucalyptus bicolor), shiny-leaved box (Eucalyptus tereticornis), black box, or ironbark box trees.

  • 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.

boxnoun詞源 3/bɒks/

• 1

  A blow with the fist.

  • 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.
  • And then he whispered something to the girl which made her laugh, and give him a good-humoured box on the ear.

boxverb詞源 3/bɒks/

• 1

  To strike with the fists; to punch.

  • to box someone’s ears
  • Leave this place before I box you!
• 2

  boxinggovernmenthobbiesTo fight against (a person) in a boxing match.

• 3

  boxinggovernmenthobbiesTo participate in boxing; to be a boxer.

boxnoun詞源 4/bɒks/

• 1

  datedA Mediterranean food fish of the genus Boops, which is a variety of sea bream; a bogue or oxeye.

  • BOX. Box (Boops), […] In both jaws a single anterior series of broad incisors, notched at the cutting margin; no molars.
  • The Bogue. […] Box or Boops. Generic Character.—Body elongated, rounded, the dorsal and ventral profiles alike, and the general aspect peculiarly trim.

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