1. n. Senses relating to a three-dimensional object or space.
2. n. A cuboid space; a cuboid container, often with a hinged lid.
3. n. A cuboid container and its contents; as much as fills such a container.
a box of books
4. n. A compartment (as a drawer) of an item of furniture used for storage, such as a cupboard, a shelf, etc.
5. n. A compartment or receptacle for receiving items.
post box post office box
6. n. # A numbered receptacle at a newspaper office for anonymous replies to advertisements.
7. n. A compartment to sit inside in an auditorium, courtroom, theatre or other building.
8. n. The driver's seat on a horse-drawn coach.
9. n. A small rectangular shelter; a booth.
sentry-box
10. n. (short for, horsebox, , container for transporting horses)
11. n. (figuratively) A predicament or trap.
I’m really in a box now.
12. n. (euphemistic) A coffin.
13. n. (slang) Preceded by the: television.
14. n. (slang) The vagina.
15. n. (computing, slang) A computer, or the case in which it is housed.
a UNIX box
16. n. (cricket) A hard protector for the genitals worn inside the underpants by a batsman or close fielder.
17. n. (engineering) A cylindrical casing around the axle of a wheel, a bearing, a gland, etc.
18. n. (fencing) A 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
19. n. (dated) A small country house.
20. n. Senses relating to a two-dimensional object or space
21. n. 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.
22. n. (baseball) The rectangle in which the batter stands.
23. n. (genetics) One of two specific regions in a promoter.
24. n. (juggling) A pattern usually performed with three balls where the movements of the balls make a boxlike shape.
25. n. (lacrosse, informal) (short for, box lacrosse, , indoor form of lacrosse)
26. n. (soccer) The penalty area.
27. v. To place inside a box; to pack in one or more boxes.
28. v. Usually followed by in: to surround and enclose in a way that restricts movement; to corner, to hem in.
29. v. To mix two containers of paint of similar colour to ensure that the color is identical.
30. v. (transitive, agriculture) To make an incision or hole in (a tree) for the purpose of procuring the sap.
31. v. (transitive, architecture) To enclose with boarding, lathing, etc., so as to conceal (for example, pipes) or to bring to a required form.
32. v. (transitive, engineering) To furnish (for example, the axle of a wheel) with a box.
33. v. (transitive, graphic design, printing) To enclose (images, text, etc.) in a box.
34. v. (transitive, object-oriented programming) To place a value of a primitive type into a corresponding object.
35. n. Any of various evergreen shrubs or trees of the genus Buxus, especially the common box, European box, or boxwood (Buxus sempervirens) which is often used for making hedges and topiary.
36. n. The wood from a box tree: boxwood.
37. n. (musical instrument, slang) A musical instrument, especially one made from boxwood.
38. n. (Australia) An evergreen tree of the genus Lophostemon (for example, the box scrub, (vern, Brisbane box), vern, brush box, pink box, or vern, Queensland box,).
39. n. A blow with the fist.
40. v. To strike with the fists; to punch.
box someone’s ears
Leave this place before I box you!
41. v. (transitive, boxing) To fight against (a person) in a boxing match.
42. v. (intransitive, boxing) To participate in boxing; to be a boxer.
43. n. (dated) A Mediterranean food fish of the genus , which is a variety of sea bream; a bogue or oxeye.
cash desk
cash desk
1. n. A place in a restaurant, bar, or shop etc, typically containing a cash register, where a customer can pay the bill.
Latin has six cases: nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, ablative, vocative.
Le latin a six cas : le nominatif, le génitif, le datif, l'accusatif, l'ablatif, le vocatif.
3. n. Cas (catégorie de fait qui est arrivé ou qui peut arriver).
In case that does happen, I will be prepared.
Dans le cas où cela arrive, je serai préparé.
4. n. Étui (couverture), écrin.
Where did I put my glass case?
Où ai-je mis mon étui à lunettes ?
Please put the ring back in the case.
Veuillez s'il vous plaît remettre la bague dans son écrin.
5. n. (Typographie) (Informatique) Casse.
You'll need to change this word from lower case to upper case.
Vous allez devoir mettre ce mot actuellement en minuscules en majuscules.
6. n. (Électronique) Boîtier.
7. n. Informatique (En particulier) Boîtier d'ordinateur ((computer) case).
How big a power supply did you put in the case?
Quelle est la taille de l'alimentation que tu as mise dans le boîtier ?
8. n. (Prog) Cas dans une condition.
9. v. (Argot) Effectuer une reconnaissance en vue d'un cambriolage.
He was casing the joint when it happened.
Il était en reconnaissance dans le coin quand ça s'est produit.
Case
1. n. (grammar) abstract feature of a noun phrase that determines its function in a sentence, such as a grammatical case and a position.
2. n. An actual event, situation, or fact.
For a change, in this case, he was telling the truth.
It is not the case that every unfamiliar phrase is an idiom.
In case of fire, break glass. sign on fire extinguisher holder in public space
3. n. (now rare) A given condition or state.
4. n. A piece of work, specifically defined within a profession.
It was one of the detective's easiest cases. Social workers should work on a maximum of forty active cases. The doctor told us of an interesting case he had treated that morning.
5. n. (academia) An instance or event as a topic of study.
The teaching consists of theory lessons and case studies.
6. n. (legal) A legal proceeding, lawsuit.
7. n. (grammar) A specific inflection of a word depending on its function in the sentence.
The accusative case canonically indicates a direct object. Latin has six cases, and remnants of a seventh.
8. n. (grammar) Grammatical cases and their meanings taken either as a topic in general or within a specific language.
Jane has been studying case in Caucasian languages. Latin is a language that employs case.
9. n. (medicine) An instance of a specific condition or set of symptoms.
There were another five cases reported overnight.
10. n. (programming) A section of code representing one of the actions of a conditional switch.
11. v. (obsolete) To propose hypothetical cases.
12. n. A box that contains or can contain a number of identical items of manufacture.
13. n. A box, sheath, or covering generally.
a case for spectacles; the case of a watch
14. n. A piece of luggage that can be used to transport an apparatus such as a sewing machine.
15. n. An enclosing frame or casing.
a door case; a window case
16. n. A suitcase.
17. n. A piece of furniture, constructed partially of transparent glass or plastic, within which items can be displayed.
18. n. The outer covering or framework of a piece of apparatus such as a computer.
19. n. (printing, historical) A shallow tray divided into compartments or "boxes" for holding type, traditionally arranged in sets of two, the "upper case" (containing capitals, small capitals, accented) and
20. n. (typography, by extension) The nature of a piece of alphabetic type, whether a “capital” (upper case) or “small” (lower case) letter.
21. n. (poker slang) Four of a kind.
22. n. (US) A unit of liquid measure used to measure sales in the beverage industry, equivalent to 192 fluid ounces.
23. n. (mining) A small fissure which admits water into the workings.
24. n. A thin layer of harder metal on the surface of an object whose deeper metal is allowed to remain soft.
25. adj. (poker slang) The last remaining card of a particular rank.
He drew the case eight!
26. v. To place (an item or items of manufacture) into a box, as in preparation for shipment.
27. v. To cover or protect with, or as if with, a case; to enclose.
28. v. (transitive, informal) To survey (a building or other location) surreptitiously, as in preparation for a robbery.
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