ALL meanings of box
box
B b - noun box a small booth or shelter for persons on outdoor duty 3
- noun box a small country house used by sportsmen 3
- noun box box stall 3
- noun box a space or section for a certain person or group 3
- noun box a short newspaper article or advertisement enclosed in borders 3
- noun box any of the enclosed sets of lines and spaces on a printed form 3
- noun box television or a television set 3
- noun box the vulva or vagina 3
- noun box any of certain designated areas outlined on the playing field for the batter, catcher, and first-base and third-base coaches 3
- noun box a protective casing for a part 3
- verb transitive box to provide with a box 3
- verb transitive box to put into a box, etc., as for storage or shipment 3
- verb transitive box to boxhaul 3
- adjective box shaped or made like a box 3
- adjective box packaged in a box 3
- noun box a blow struck with the hand or fist, esp. on the ear or the side of the head 3
- verb transitive box to strike with such a blow 3
- verb transitive box to engage in a boxing match with 3
- intransitive verb box to fight with the fists; engage in boxing 3
- noun box any of a genus (Buxus) of evergreen shrubs or small trees of the box family with small, leathery leaves: some species are used as hedge plants or shaped as garden ornaments 3
- noun box boxwood (sense 1) 3
- adjective box designating a family (Buxaceae, order Euphorbiales) of dicotyledonous evergreen shrubs and trees, including pachysandra 3
- noun Technical meaning of box (computer) 1. A computer; especially in the construction "foo box" where foo is some functional qualifier, like "graphics", or the name of an operating system (thus, "Unix box", "MS-DOS box", etc.) "We preprocess the data on Unix boxes before handing it up to the mainframe." The plural "boxen" is sometimes seen. 2. Without qualification in an IBM SNA site, "box" refers specifically to an IBM front-end processor. 1
- noun box container 1
- abbreviation BOX boxful 1
- noun box theatre: private stall 1
- noun box stadium: reserved area 1
- noun box courtroom: jurors' enclosure 1
- noun box box for sending mail 1
- noun box slot for receiving mail 1
- noun box jukebox 1
- noun box automotive: gearbox 1
- noun box TV 1
- noun box coffin 1
- noun box space on a form 1
- abbreviation BOX baseball 1
- noun box sports protector 1
- noun box predicament 1
- noun box slap 1
- intransitive verb box sport: be a boxer 1
- transitive verb box sport 1
- transitive verb box punch repeatedly 1
- transitive verb box put in a box 1
- transitive verb box enclose 1
- noun box 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. 1
- noun box the wood itself. 1
- noun box any of various other shrubs or trees, especially species of eucalyptus. 1
- verb with object box Nautical. to boxhaul (often followed by off). 1
- verb with object box Meteorology. to fly around the center of a storm in a boxlike pattern in order to gather meteorological data: to box a storm. 1
- idioms box box the compass, Nautical. to recite all of the points of the compass in a clockwise order. 1