| box | |
| 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. | |
