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Antonyms for boxlike

Grammar : Adj
Spell : boks
Phonetic Transcription : bÉ’ks

Definition of boxlike

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.
  • As in square : adj four-sided
  • As in blocky : adj stocky
Example sentences :
  • The cottage was a little, boxlike place, and one had to climb steps to get to it.
  • Extract from : « Carolyn of the Corners » by Ruth Belmore Endicott
  • He sprang from his bed and stood before the window of his boxlike room.
  • Extract from : « The Cottage of Delight » by Will N. Harben
  • In Figure 16, a radiator is shown in a boxlike structure in the cellar.
  • Extract from : « General Science » by Bertha M. Clark
  • About fifteen yards away, a man bent over a transparent, boxlike contrivance in which something fluttered.
  • Extract from : « When the Sleepers Woke » by Arthur Leo Zagat
  • Dis didn't seem to have a pole star; however, a boxlike constellation turned slowly around the invisible point of the pole.
  • Extract from : « Planet of the Damned » by Harry Harrison
  • He saw the aliens grouped around the square, boxlike buildings, watching and waiting for trouble.
  • Extract from : « Despoilers of the Golden Empire » by Gordon Randall Garrett
  • Kneeling Norman nobles carved in white marble upbear the simple, boxlike mass of porphyry upon their armored shoulders.
  • Extract from : « Vistas in Sicily » by Arthur Stanley Riggs
  • The plastic mass when it filled the boxlike structure to the top was smoothed off and allowed to dry.
  • Extract from : « The Boy Scouts on the Yukon » by Ralph Victor
  • Then they came to a boxlike closing of the valley to cañon walls, and here the trail evidently followed the stream bed.
  • Extract from : « The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories » by Various
  • Jumping from the boxlike recess in the rear of the car, the form stretched itself and salaamed.
  • Extract from : « Motor Matt's Clue » by Stanley R. Matthews

Synonyms for boxlike

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