(intransitive) To participate in boxing; to be a boxer.
(transitive, computing) To place a value of a primitive type into a corresponding object.
(transitive) To mix two containers of paint of similar color to ensure that the color is identical.
(transitive) To furnish (e.g. a wheel) with boxes.
(architecture) To enclose with boarding, lathing, etc., so as to bring to a required form.
(transitive) To make an incision or hole in (a tree) for the purpose of procuring the sap.
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He was a fine-looking middle-aged man, and his voice said at once that he expected to be obeyed. He was very friendly and polite to John, and after giving us a slight look, he called a groom to take us to our boxes, and invited John to take some refreshment.
Leave this place before I box you!
box someone's ears
And then he whispered something to the girl which made her laugh, and give him a good-humored box on the ear.
“Evenin’, folks. Thought y’all might lak uh lil music this evenin’ so Ah brought long mah box.”
Nevertheless, the application of woods other than box for purposes for which that wood is now used would tend to lessen the demand for box, and thus might have an effect in lowering its price.
"Box makes a statement without having to do much: just trim twice a year and keep it weeded. It's a bit of a lazy gardener's plant." This, no doubt, is what makes box so popular with show home developers and city dwellers – there is scarce a balcony or front door anywhere that cannot be improved by a box ball in a pot.
tight boxes neatly sashed
a shooting box
The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, […].
a UNIX box
Poised link-up play between Essien and Lampard set the Ghanaian midfielder free soon after but his left-footed shot from outside the box was too weak.
I'm really in a box now.
This text would stand out better if we put it in a box of colour.