A Quick and Simple Dictionary

box

1. Noun.  A cuboid container, usually with a hinged lid.
2. Noun.  As much as fills a such a container.
3. Noun.  A compartment of a storage furniture, or of a part of such a furniture, such as of a drawer, shelving, etc.
4. Noun.  A compartment to sit in at a theater, courtroom or auditorium.
5. Noun.  A small rectangular shelter like a booth.
6. Noun.  A rectangular border around an image or section of text.
7. Noun.  A small, empty area on a writable document, delimited by a border, for filling with a tick mark or an ex.
8. Noun.  An input field on an interactive electronic display.
9. Noun.  A numbered receptacle at a newspaper office for anonymous replies to advertisements.
10. Noun.  A trap or predicament.
11. Noun.  The driver's seat on a coach.
12. Noun.  (cricket) A hard protector for the genitals worn by a batsman or close fielder inside the underpants.
13. Noun.  (engineering) A cylindrical casing around for example a bearing or gland.
14. Noun.  (football) The penalty area.
15. Noun.  (computing, slang) A computer, or the case in which it is housed. (jump, computer) .
16. Noun.  (slang) (''with'' '''the''') Television.
17. Noun.  (slang, offensive) The vagina.
18. Noun.  (euphemistic) coffin.
19. Noun.  (juggling) A pattern usually performed with three balls where the movements of the balls make a boxlike shape.
20. Verb.  (transitive) To place inside a box; to pack in boxes.
21. Verb.  (transitive) (context, usually with 'in') To hem in.
22. Verb.  (transitive) (computing) To place a value of a primitive type into a corresponding object.
23. Verb.  (transitive) To mix two containers of paint of similar color to ensure that the color is identical.
24. Noun.  Any of various evergreen shrubs or trees of the genus ''Buxus''.
25. Noun.  Boxwood: the wood from a box tree.
26. Noun.  A blow with the fist.
27. Verb.  (transitive) To strike with the fists.
28. Verb.  (transitive, Jamaica) To punch (a person).
29. Verb.  (transitive) To fight against (a person) in a boxing match.
30. Verb.  (intransitive) To participate in boxing; to be a boxer.