box | (noun) a blow with the hand (usually on the ear) | - |
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(noun) a (usually rectangular) container; may have a lid | - |
(noun) separate partitioned area in a public place for a few people | - |
(noun) private area in a theater or grandstand where a small group can watch the performance | Synonyms: loge |
(noun) the driver's seat on a coach | Synonyms: box seat |
(noun) any one of several designated areas on a ball field where the batter or catcher or coaches are positioned | - |
(noun) evergreen shrubs or small trees | Synonyms: boxwood |
(noun) the quantity contained in a box | Synonyms: boxful |
(noun) a rectangular drawing | - |
(noun) a predicament from which a skillful or graceful escape is impossible | Synonyms: corner |
(verb) hit with the fist | - |
(verb) engage in a boxing match | - |
(verb) put into a box | Synonyms: package |
boxberry | (noun) spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil | Synonyms: checkerberry, spiceberry, teaberry, wintergreen |
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(noun) creeping woody plant of eastern North America with shiny evergreen leaves and scarlet berries | Synonyms: Mitchella repens, partridgeberry, twinberry |
boxcar | (noun) a freight car with roof and sliding doors in the sides | - |
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boxcars | (noun) (usually plural) an expression used when two dice are thrown and both come up showing six spots | - |
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boxed | (adjective) enclosed in or set off by a border or box | - |
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(adjective) enclosed in or as if in a box | Synonyms: boxed-in, boxed in |
boxer | (noun) a breed of stocky medium-sized short-haired dog with a brindled coat and square-jawed muzzle developed in Germany | - |
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(noun) someone who fights with his fists for sport | Synonyms: pugilist |
(noun) a workman employed to pack things into containers | Synonyms: bagger, packer |
boxers | (noun) underpants worn by men | Synonyms: boxershorts, drawers, shorts, underdrawers |
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boxershorts | (noun) underpants worn by men | Synonyms: boxers, drawers, shorts, underdrawers |
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boxfish | (noun) any of numerous small tropical fishes having body and head encased in bony plates | Synonyms: trunkfish |
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boxful | (noun) the quantity contained in a box | Synonyms: box |
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boxing | (noun) fighting with the fists | Synonyms: fisticuffs, pugilism |
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(noun) the enclosure of something in a package or box | Synonyms: packing |
boxlike | (adjective) resembling a box in rectangularity | Synonyms: box-shaped, boxy |
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boxthorn | (noun) any of various shrubs or vines of the genus Lycium with showy flowers and bright berries | Synonyms: matrimony vine |
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boxwood | (noun) evergreen shrubs or small trees | Synonyms: box |
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(noun) very hard tough close-grained light yellow wood of the box (particularly the common box); used in delicate woodwork: musical instruments and inlays and engraving blocks | Synonyms: Turkish boxwood |
boxy | (adjective) resembling a box in rectangularity | Synonyms: box-shaped, boxlike |
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