box

noun · verbA1

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noun

Plural noun:

boxesboxen

1.
Senses relating to a three-dimensional object or space.
2.
Senses relating to a two-dimensional object or space
3.
(broadly)(geometry, by extension) A rectangular object in any number of dimensions.
Đồng nghĩa: hyperrectangle, orthotope
4.
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.
5.
The wood from a box tree: boxwood.
6.
(slang)(music, slang) A musical instrument, especially one made from boxwood.
7.
(Australia)An evergreen tree of the genus Lophostemon (for example, box scrub, Brisbane box, brush box, pink box, or Queensland box, Lophostemon confertus).
8.
(Australia)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.
9.
A blow with the fist.
10.
(dated)A Mediterranean food fish of the genus Boops, which is a variety of sea bream; a bogue or oxeye.

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verb

V_es/s

boxes

V_ing/Gerund

boxing

V_ed/pp

boxed

1.
(transitive)To place inside a box; to pack in one or more boxes.
2.
(transitive)Usually followed by in: to surround and enclose in a way that restricts movement; to corner, to hem in.
3.
(transitive)To mix two containers of paint of similar colour to ensure that the color is identical.
4.
(transitive)(transitive, agriculture) To make an incision or hole in (a tree) for the purpose of procuring the sap.
5.
(transitive)(transitive, architecture) To enclose with boarding, lathing, etc., so as to conceal (for example, pipes) or to bring to a required form.
6.
(transitive)(transitive, engineering) To furnish (for example, the axle of a wheel) with a box.
7.
(transitive)(transitive, graphic design, printing) To enclose (images, text, etc.) in a box.
8.
(transitive)(transitive, object-oriented programming) To place a value of a primitive type into a casing object.
9.
(motor racing) To enter the pit.
10.
(transitive)To strike with the fists; to punch.
to box someone’s ears
Leave this place before I box you!
11.
(transitive)(transitive, boxing) To fight against (a person) in a boxing match.
12.
(intransitive, stative)(intransitive, stative, boxing) To participate in boxing; to be a boxer.

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Đồng nghĩa

hyperrectangleorthotopecase package boxful logebox seatshelter boothstizzyhole telly tube TV computer machine cupbox upembox encase

Trái nghĩa

unbox uncase unpackplace inside a box unbox, uncase, unpack

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle English box (container, box, cup), from Old English box (box, case), from *buhsā (box) from buxis (box), Latin pyxis (small box for medicines or toiletries), of uncertain origin; compare πυξίς and πύξος (box tree; boxwood). piseog pyx pyxis.