Definitions for boxes

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boxes box

Spelling: [boks]

IPA: /bɒks/

Boxes is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 39 anagrams from letters in boxes (beosx).

Definitions for boxes

noun

1. a container, case, or receptacle, usually rectangular, of wood, metal, cardboard, etc., and often with a lid or removable cover.
2. the quantity contained in a box:
3. Chiefly British. a gift or present:
4. post-office box.
5. a compartment or section in a public place, shut or railed off for the accommodation of a small number of people, especially in a theater, opera house, sports stadium, etc.
6. a small enclosure or area in a courtroom, for witnesses or the jury.
7. a small shelter:
8. British. a small house, cabin, or cottage, as for use while hunting: a telephone booth. a wardrobe trunk.
9. box stall.
10. the driver's seat on a coach.
11. the section of a wagon in which passengers or parcels are carried.
12. Automotive. the section of a truck in which cargo is carried.
13. the box, Informal. television:
14. part of a page of a newspaper or periodical set off in some manner, as by lines, a border, or white space.
15. any enclosing, protective case or housing, sometimes including its contents:
16. Baseball. either of two marked spaces, one on each side of the plate, in which the batter stands. either of two marked spaces, one outside of first base and the other outside of third, where the coaches stand. the pitcher's mound. the marked space where the catcher stands.
17. a difficult situation; predicament.
18. Agriculture. a bowl or pit cut in the side of a tree for collecting sap.
19. Jazz Slang. a stringed instrument, as a guitar. a piano.
20. Informal. a phonograph. a boom box. a computer.
21. Slang. a coffin.
22. Slang: Vulgar. the vulva or vagina. basket (def 9).
23. a blow, as with the hand or fist:
24. an evergreen shrub or small tree of the genus Buxus, especially B. sempervirens, having shiny, elliptic, dark-green leaves, used for ornamental borders, hedges, etc., and yielding a hard, durable wood.
25. the wood itself.
26. any of various other shrubs or trees, especially species of eucalyptus.

Idioms

1. out of the box, Australian Slang. remarkable or exceptional; extraordinary.
2. outside the box, Informal. in an innovative or unconventional manner; with a fresh perspective: Also, out of the box.
3. box the compass, Nautical. to recite all of the points of the compass in a clockwise order.

Verb phrases

1. box out, Basketball. to position oneself between an opposing player and the basket to hinder the opposing player from rebounding or tipping in a shot; block out.

verb (used with object)

1. to put into a box:
2. to enclose or confine as in a box (often followed by in or up).
3. to furnish with a box.
4. to form into a box or the shape of a box.
5. to block so as to keep from passing or achieving better position (often followed by in):
6. to group together for consideration as one unit:
7. Building Trades. to enclose or conceal (a building or structure) as with boarding.
8. Agriculture. to make a hole or cut in (a tree) for sap to collect.
9. to mix (paint, varnish, or the like) by pouring from one container to another and back again.
10. Australian. to mix groups of sheep that should be kept separated. to confuse someone or something.
11. to strike with the hand or fist, especially on the ear.
12. to fight against (someone) in a boxing match.
13. Nautical. to boxhaul (often followed by off).
14. Meteorology. to fly around the center of a storm in a boxlike pattern in order to gather meteorological data:

verb (used without object)

1. to fight with the fists; participate in a boxing match; spar.
2. to be a professional or experienced prizefighter or boxer:

Origin of boxes

before 1000; Middle English, Old English, probably Late Latin buxis, a reshaping of Latin pyxis; see boîte

Examples for boxes

Type is kept in wooden cases divided into boxes, one for a character.

Just ring for a lighted candle, we will seal up these boxes.

To forget the case, mentioned below, is to lose the art of picking up types from the boxes without looking at them.

Deep under the eaves I could make out row after row of boxes and chests.

The boxes are not arranged alphabetically, and a printer learns the case as one learns the typewriter keyboard.

Are there plenty of boards, planks and boxes around your barn, Fenn?

She turned away to range some boxes on the shelves behind the counter.

They seldom exceeded six or eight boxes at a time, and were oftener two or three.

We had live chickens and I was trying to shoot them from a real-life catapult into painted green pigs in boxes.

He set about ticking the boxes required of any self-respecting plutocrat enthusiastically.