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| Grammar : Noun, verb |
| Spell : boks |
| Phonetic Transcription : bɒks |
Definition of boxes
Origin :- Old English box "a wooden container," also the name of a type of shrub, from Late Latin buxis, from Greek pyxis "boxwood box," from pyxos "box tree," of uncertain origin. See OED entry for discussion. German Büchse also is a Latin loan word.
- Meaning "compartment at a theater" is from c.1600. Meaning "pigeon-hole at a post office" is from 1832. Meaning "television" is from 1950. Slang meaning "vulva" is attested 17c., according to "Dictionary of American Slang;" modern use seems to date from c.World War II, perhaps originally Australian, on notion of "box of tricks." Box office is 1786; in the figurative sense of "financial element of a performance" it is first recorded 1904. Box lunch (n.) attested from 1899. The box set, "multiple-album, CD or cassette issue of the work of an artist" is attested by 1955.
- noun container, often square or rectangular
- verb place in square or rectangular container
- verb punch competitively
- She turned away to range some boxes on the shelves behind the counter.
- Extract from : « The Secret Agent » by Joseph Conrad
- They seldom exceeded six or eight boxes at a time, and were oftener two or three.
- Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper
- Just ring for a lighted candle, we will seal up these boxes.
- Extract from : « Night and Morning, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- Are there plenty of boards, planks and boxes around your barn, Fenn?
- Extract from : « Frank Roscoe's Secret » by Allen Chapman
- Deep under the eaves I could make out row after row of boxes and chests.
- Extract from : « The Forest » by Stewart Edward White
- More barrels, boxes, crates and bags to be piled high up on the waterfront.
- Extract from : « The Harbor » by Ernest Poole
- It is made in sections or "boxes" twelve or fourteen feet long.
- Extract from : « Hittel on Gold Mines and Mining » by John S. Hittell
- The height of the sides of the boxes is from eight inches to two feet.
- Extract from : « Hittel on Gold Mines and Mining » by John S. Hittell
- With these preparations, however, we shouldered our boxes, and in an hour we were in the suburbs.
- Extract from : « The Book of Khalid » by Ameen Rihani
- Sow auricula and polyanthus seeds in boxes, made of rough boards six inches deep, with holes at the bottom to run off the water.
- Extract from : « The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, » by Mary Eaton
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