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Definition: Box In |
Box InVerb1. Enclose or confine as if in a box. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Box InSynonym: box up (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Box In |
| Etymologies containing "box in": Bumboat. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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 | Union Station, Washington, D.C.: train conductor inserting key in train starting signal box in umbrella shed column. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | View of the Box in which the Pr[esident was assassina]ted. Taken from the Dress Circle. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Potomac Electric Power Co. apartments and kitchens. Switch box in home at 3845 Suitland Rd. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | He put his shovel down, and holding the box in front of him, he edged through the brush until he came to the edge of the swift stream. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | The features of a set-top box in China include an Internet browser, Email service, on-line shopping, on-line stock trading and network customization. (references) | |
Presently, there is only one kind of set-top box in the retail market that is the Living Room Computer (Stock Set-top Box) which are produced by Legend Corporation Ltd. this set-top box can meet family needs for work, education and entertainment. (references) | ||
Assist by the state "863" plan, Tianjin Zhonghuan Computer Company started their project research in 1997, and they successful produced a set-top box in 1999. Presently, the second-generation set-top box has already been successfully used in some real estate projects in Shanghai and south China areas. (references) | ||
Political Economy | HONDURAS | A one percent tax applied on the FOB value of all export articles was eliminated in 2000. Export taxes on bananas have been reduced in stages from 50 to 4 cents a box in 2000. Special export taxes on seafood, sugar, and live cattle were eliminated in 2000. Tourism services have been subject to a four percent tax since 1998. (references) |
Political Rights | Mauritania | Voters then deposit the envelope into a sealed transparent ballot box in front of observers from each political party. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Ulysses S. Grant | 1869-1877 | Why, it looks as though Providence had bestowed upon us a strong box in the precious metals locked up in the sterile mountains of the far West, and which we are now forging the key to unlock, to meet the very contingency that is now upon us. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "box in"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
German | verschalen (encase, panel), verkleiden (case, cover, disguise, dress up, encase, face, line, mask, panel, put into fancy dress, to disguise, wainscot), einklemmen (catch, clamp, get caught, jam, pen in, pin down, sandwich), einkeilen (block in, hem in, jam in, pen in, sandwich, sandwich in). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | bezár (close up, coop, encompass, immure, incarcerate, lock, lock on, lock up, shut, shut in, shut up, to bolt in, to box in, to bung, to bung up, to cloister, to close, to close up, to enclose, to encompass, to fold up, to immure, to incarcerate, to latch, to mew, to pin, to shut down, to shut in), dobozol (box, to box in, to pack), dobozba rak (to box in). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 骨箱 (box in which a funerary urn is kept, box in which ashes of the deceased are kept). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | "つば" (box in which a funerary urn is kept, box in which ashes of the deceased are kept). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Manx | stolley (box in stable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oxbay inay enclaustrar (cloister, hide away). (various references) ห้อมล้อมแน่นหนา. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Box In" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: boxin. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-i-n-o-x" | |
-2 letters: bin, bio, box, ion, nib, nix, nob, obi. | |
-3 letters: bi, bo, in, no, on, ox, xi. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-i-n-o-x" | |
+1 letter: boxing. | |
+2 letters: boxings. | |
+3 letters: biconvex, biotoxin, boxiness, unboxing. | |
+4 letters: biotoxins, bollixing, bolloxing, obnoxious, outboxing, tinderbox. | |
+5 letters: boxhauling, boxinesses, exhibition, exorbitant, inexorable, inexorably, kickboxing, xenobiotic, xenophobia, xenophobic. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 6F 78 49 6E |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01101111 01111000 00100000 01001001 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B o x   I n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 006F 0078 0049 006E |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)36819024380 |
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