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Box

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1.SymbolISO 639-3 language code for Buamu.
2.NounSenses relating to a three-dimensional object or space. A cuboid space; a cuboid container, often with a hinged lid.
"a box of books; post box  post office box; sentry-box; I’m really in a box now.; a UNIX box"
3.NounA cuboid space; a cuboid container, often with a hinged lid.
4.NounA cuboid container and its contents; as much as fills such a container.
"a box of books"
5.NounA compartment (as a drawer) of an item of furniture used for storage, such as a cupboard, a shelf, etc.
6.NounA compartment or receptacle for receiving items.
"post box  post office box"
7.NounA numbered receptacle at a newspaper office for anonymous replies to advertisements; see also box number.
8.NounA compartment to sit inside in an auditorium, courtroom, theatre, or other building.
9.NounThe driver’s seat on a horse-drawn coach.
10.NounA small rectangular shelter.
"sentry-box"
11.NounEllipsis of horsebox (“container for transporting horses”).
12.NounEllipsis of gearbox.
13.Noun Ellipsis of stashbox.
14.NounEllipsis of signal box.
15.NounA predicament or trap.
"I’m really in a box now."
16.NounA prison cell. A cell used for solitary confinement.
17.NounA cell used for solitary confinement.
18.NounA coffin.
19.NounThe television.
20.NounThe vagina.
21.NounA computer, or the case in which it is housed.
"a UNIX box"
22.NounA gym dedicated to the CrossFit exercise program.
23.NounA hard protector for the genitals worn inside the underpants by a batsman or close fielder.
24.NounSynonym of gully (“a certain fielding position”).
25.NounA cylindrical casing around the axle of a wheel, a bearing, a gland, etc.
26.NounA 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.
27.NounA small country house.
28.NounA stringed instrument with a soundbox, especially a guitar. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
29.NounShort for squeeze box (“accordion or concertina”)
30.NounSenses relating to a two-dimensional object or space 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."
31.NounA 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."
32.NounThe rectangle in which the batter stands.
33.NounOne of two specific regions in a promoter.
34.NounA pattern usually performed with three balls where the movements of the balls make a boxlike shape.
35.NounEllipsis of box lacrosse (“indoor form of lacrosse”).
36.NounThe penalty area.
37.NounA diamond-shaped flying formation consisting of four aircraft.
38.NounAn area in the pit where the car is repaired and refueled.
39.NounA rectangular object in any number of dimensions.
40.VerbTo place inside a box; to pack in one or more boxes.
41.VerbUsually followed by in: to surround and enclose in a way that restricts movement; to corner, to hem in.
42.VerbTo mix two containers of paint of similar colour to ensure that the color is identical.
43.VerbTo make an incision or hole in (a tree) for the purpose of procuring the sap.
44.VerbTo enclose with boarding, lathing, etc., so as to conceal (for example, pipes) or to bring to a required form.
45.VerbTo furnish (for example, the axle of a wheel) with a box.
46.VerbTo enclose (images, text, etc.) in a box.
47.VerbTo place a value of a primitive type into a casing object.
48.VerbTo enter the pit.
49.NounAny 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.
50.NounThe wood from a box tree: boxwood.
51.NounA musical instrument, especially one made from boxwood.
52.NounAn evergreen tree of the genus Lophostemon (for example, box scrub, Brisbane box, brush box, pink box, or Queensland box, Lophostemon confertus).
53.NounVarious 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.
54.NounA blow with the fist.
55.VerbTo strike with the fists; to punch.
"to box someone’s ears; Leave this place before I box you!"
56.VerbTo fight against (a person) in a boxing match.
57.VerbTo participate in boxing; to be a boxer.
58.NounA Mediterranean food fish of the genus Boops, which is a variety of sea bream; a bogue or oxeye.
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