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Definition: Box |
BoxNoun1. A (usually rectangular) container; may have a lid; "he rummaged through a box of spare parts". 2. Private area in a theater or grandstand where a small group can watch the performance; "the royal box was empty". 3. The quantity contained in a box; "he gave her a box of chocolates". 4. A predicament from which a skillful or graceful escape is impossible; "his lying got him into a tight corner". 5. A rectangular drawing; "the flowchart contained many boxes". 6. Evergreen shrubs or small trees. 7. Any one of several designated areas on a ball field where the batter or catcher or coaches are positioned; "the umpire warned the batter to stay in the batter's box". 8. The driver's seat on a coach; "an armed guard sat in the box with the driver". 9. Separate partitioned area in a public place for a few people; "the sentry stayed in his box to avoid the cold". 10. : a blow with the hand (usually on the ear); "I gave him a good box on the ear". Verb1. Put into a box; "box the gift, please". 2. Hit with the fist; "I'll box your ears!". 3. Engage in a boxing match; in sport. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "box" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
Etymology: Box \Box\ (b[o^]ks), noun. [Anglo-Saxon box, Latin buxus, from Greek. See Boxa case.]. (references) |
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Computing | Box n. 1. A computer; esp. in the construction `foo box' where foo is some functional qualifier, like `graphics', or the name of an OS (thus, `Unix box', `MS-DOS box', etc.) "We preprocess the data on Unix boxes before handing it up to the mainframe." 2. [IBM] Without qualification but within an SNA-using site, this refers specifically to an IBM front-end processor or FEP /F-E-P/. An FEP is a small computer necessary to enable an IBM mainframe to communicate beyond the limits of the dinosaur pen. Typically used in expressions like the cry that goes up when an SNA network goes down: "Looks like the box has fallen over." (See fall over.) See also IBM, fear and loathing, Blue Glue. Source: Jargon File. |
Bible | Box for holding oil or perfumery (Mark 14:3). It was of the form of a flask or bottle. The Hebrew word (pak) used for it is more appropriately rendered "vial" in 1 Sam. 10:1, and should also be so rendered in 2 Kings 9:1, where alone else it occurs. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Dream Interpretation | Opening a goods box in your dream, signifies untold wealth and that delightful journeys to distant places may be made with happy results. If the box is empty disappointment in works of all kinds will follow. To see full money boxes, augurs cessation from business cares and a pleasant retirement. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Economics | 1. Term referring to a trailer, semi-trailer, or container used in transportation. 2. A type of package of wood, cardboard, metal, plastic or other material. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | The deep notch cut into the base of a tree(following laying in)to govern the direction in which it is to fall and also to prevent the butt splitting. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A geographical area or zone at sea in which fishing of certain species is banned or restricted for conservation of fish stocks. Fishing in these areas may also be subjected to certain technical measures, such as the use of increased mesh size of nets or restriction of certain fishing gear. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| In a plough, the group of the parts associated with cutting, lifting and turning the furrow slice. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| An individual enclosure within a barn or stable in which an animal may move about freely without tethering or other restraining device - called also loose-box. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Literature | Box I've got into the wrong box. I am out of my element. Lord Lyttelton used to say he ought to have been brought up to some business; that whenever he went to Vauxhall and heard the mirth of his neighbours, he used to fancy pleasure was in every box but his own. Wherever he went for happiness, he somehow always got into the wrong box. (See Christmas Box. ). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mechanical Engineering | A rigid enclosure containing moving machine parts. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. A unit in a sluice for washing gravel; a sluicebox. Syn:box condenser b. A dump body c. To place core samples in a lidded, traylike, partitioned container for safekeeping after they have been removed from the core barrel; also, the container in which core samples are placed after they have been removed from a core barrel. Also called corebox; core tray d. To drill boreholes at the four corners of a square area at equal distances from a centrally located and already completed borehol. (references) |
Personal Care & Hotels | Box-like container(with a handle or handles)which slides in and out of a piece of furniture. Source: European Union. (references) |
Public Administration | Webster. Source: European Union. (references) |
Publishing & Graphic Arts | One of the subdivisions of a type case in which separate characters are kept. Source: European Union. (references) |
Weather | A severe thunderstorm or tornado watch. See blue box, red box. (or Watch Box). (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: BoxSynonyms: box seat (n), boxful (n), boxwood (n), corner (n), loge (n), package (v). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: in-box (transportation). |
| Antonym: unbox (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Abode | House, mansion, place, villa, cottage, box, lodge, hermitage, rus in urbe, folly, rotunda, tower, chateau, castle, pavilion, hotel, court, manor-house, capital messuage, hall, palace; kiosk, bungalow; casa, country seat, apartment house, flat house, frame house, shingle house, tenement house; temple. |
Contention | Verb: contend; contest, strive, struggle, scramble, wrestle; spar, square; exchange blows, exchange fisticuffs; fib, justle, tussle, tilt, box, stave, fence; skirmish; pickeer; fight; (war); wrangle; (quarrel). |
Receptacle | Chest, box, coffer, caddy, case, casket, pyx, pix, caisson, desk, bureau, reliquary; trunk, portmanteau, band-box, valise; grip, grip sack; skippet, vasculum; boot, imperial; vache; cage, manger, rack. |
Chamber, apartment, room, cabin; office, court, hall, atrium; suite of rooms, apartment, flat, story; saloon, salon, parlor; by-room, cubicle; presence chamber; sitting room, best room, keeping room, drawing room, reception room, state room; gallery, cabinet, closet; pew, box; boudoir; adytum, sanctum; bedroom, dormitory; refectory, dining room, salle-a-manger; nursery, schoolroom; library, study; studio; billiard room, smoking room; den; stateroom, tablinum, tenement. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | If I was 80 years younger, I'd box your ears (Being John Malkovich; writing credit: Charlie Kaufman) Mama always said life was like a box a chocolates, never know what you're gonna get. (Forrest Gump; writing credit: Eric Roth) Sit down, put your hands on that box! Now, why is that bomb on the train (Octopussy; writing credit: George MacDonald Fraser) I bet ya can box a little, can't ya sir (Snatch.; writing credit: Guy Ritchie) That president is coming home from California in a box. (In the Line of Fire; writing credit: Jeff Maguire) | |
Lyrics | And as the cash box rang I (Hit 'em up Style (Oops!); performing artist: Blu Cantrell) Even got keys to the spot to drop the PO Box (That's What I'm Looking For; performing artist: Da Brat) Place them in a box until a quieter time (Ants Marching; performing artist: Dave Matthews Band) Get a box or an old brown paper sack (Run; performing artist: George Strait) If I had a box just for wishes (Time In A Bottle; performing artist: Jim Croce) | |
Clever | Life is like a box of chocolates; you never know when you'll find a nut. (references; author: unknown) One of life's mysteries is how a two-pound box of candy can make a person gain five pounds. (references; author: unknown) How is it one careless match can start a forest fire, but it takes a whole box to start a campfire? (references; author: unknown) | |
Tongue Twisters | A box of biscuits, a batch of mixed biscuits. (references; author: unknown) I bought a box of biscuits, a box of mixed biscuits, and a biscuit mixer. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Box (1974) David Nixon's Magic Box (1970) The Golden Box (1970) In a Box (1968) Backwards Box (1967) | |
Song Titles | Music Box Dancer (performing artist: Frank Mills) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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 | Shown is the 5 A Day ad "The Original Fast Food" that appeared in Washington D.C.'s Metrorail stations during September 1993. The ad has running figurines in the shapes of a banana, an orange juice box, a tomato, carrot and broccoli. Credit: Fred Hirsch (photographer). |  | This slide shows the front and back of a box of Kellogs Bran Flakes. The back panel shows "To Your Health: Preventive Health Tips From The National Cancer Institute". Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |
 | The ultraviolet pass box cabinet was used in Maximum Containment labs, through which possibly contaminated objects were passed in order to render any pathogens lifeless during transfer between laboratory rooms. Credit: CDC. |  | "Living in a Box" by Rainer Wonisch. Use the arrow keys to rotate the box to see what's inside. |
 | "Surprise in a Box" by Hassan Sedaghat. |  | Observing party truck showing mounting of rod box Level party of H. J. Oliver. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | ABLS - Automated Boundary Layer Sampler Ready for deployment off of PEIRCE Yellow instrument on deck is a box corer. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Water quality testing equipment and a "live box" for crabs. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Box coring operations off the fantail of the NATHANIEL B. PALMER. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Recovering a box core with a bottom sample for biological studies. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Telephone wire box" by Johnnie Crash Commentary: "Photo of a very messy telephone wire box." | "Chocolate Box 2 (series)" by Justin Baker Commentary: "Part of a product promo shoot for "a chocolate company" shot on a Fuji Finepix 6MP. The logo treatment has been removed so the image has broader use." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
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 | Tropics; equatorial; hot; humid; lush; steamy; sticky; stifling; sultry; sweat box; sweltering; torrid; tropic; vacation; relaxation; . | | Hotel; motel; lodging; front desk; concierge; ding; bell; accommodation; fleabag; flop box; flophouse; hospice; hostel; hostelry; house; inn; motor inn; public house; resort; roadhouse; rooming house; scratch crib; tavern. |
| Boxing; boxer; punch; blow; sock; box; whop; . | | Punch; punching bag; violence; violent; fighting; fight; hit; hitting; bash; belt; biff; blow; bop; box; buffet; clip; clout; cuff; dig; jab; jog; knock; lollop; nudge; one-two; plug; plunk; poke; prod; pummel; rap; shot; slam; slap; slug; slug; smack; sm. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
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Plutarch | When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door. |
William M. Thackeray | Come children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | Why should not they explore to Box Hill though the Sucklings did not come |
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded | Carroll, Lewis | His Imperial Fatness was graciously pleased to box my ears |
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency | Douglas Adams | So after a hectic week of believing that war was peace, that good was bad, that the moon was made of blue cheese, and that God needed a lot of money sent to a certain box number, the Monk started to believe that thirty-five percent of all tables were hermaphrodites, and then broke down |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | She had taken from a little box behind her a few old rags, and her little lead sword |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Fleming had a box of crayons and one night during free study he had coloured the earth green and the clouds maroon |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Ma worked quickly about the fire while Rose of Sharon sat on a box resting her heavy abdomen on her knees |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | The box was close on every side, with a little door for me to go in and out, and a few gimlet holes to let in air. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | Many a man is harassed to death to pay the rent of a larger and more luxurious box who would not have frozen to death in such a box as this |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | In the search box, type "Marfan syndrome" or synonyms. (references) | |
Enter "Marfan syndrome" (or synonyms) into the search box. (references) | ||
Below the search box, select the option "The last 30 days." (references) | ||
Business | Li notes that the market of set-top box is divided by the history of the two groups. (references) | |
In order to speed up the development the set-top box market, several impediments must be overcome. (references) | ||
Set-top box access provide yet another piece in the puzzle of bringing the Internet to the Chinese masses. (references) | ||
Economic History | Burma | Botataung Township,(P.O. Box 40) Yangon, Myanmar. (references) |
Ethiopia | P.O. Box 1014, Entoto Street, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. (references) | |
Tanzania | Radio Tumaini, P.O. Box 167, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. (references) | |
Minorities | Argentina | A swastika was found inside the box. (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 | Armenia | There was no criminal investigation of the amply documented ballot box stuffing. (references) |
Trade | Netherlands | Such requests should be sent to: Ministry of Finance, Director of Customs, P.O. Box 20201, 2500 EE The Hague. (references) |
Panama | All goods arriving in Panama intended to be reexported immediately must be marked "PANAMA IN TRANSIT" on each box or outside container. (references) | |
Kenya | IPC contacts are: Executive Chairman, Investment Promotion Center, NBK Building - 8th Floor, P.O. Box 55704, Nairobi, Kenya; Tel: 254-2-221-401; Fax: 254-2-336-663. (references) | |
Travel | Guatemala | Leave valuables in the hotel's safe deposit box. (references) |
Guinea | For postal service, most businesses utilize a post office box. (references) | |
Eq. Guinea | Mail is generally sent to an "apartado postal" (A.P.) or post office box. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | BLACKGUARD, n. A man whose qualities, prepared for display like a box of berries in a market -- the fine ones on top -- have been opened on the wrong side. An inverted gentleman. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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Dennis Miller | Make Kenneth Lay work the drive-thru at Jack In The Box so I can literally hear that lying bastard's voice coming out of a clown's mouth. |
Gary Condit | You know, there's good and bad about that watch box thing. I can't throw the trash away at my house anymore. I happen to do the dishes, but I can't throw the trash away. |
Paul Burrell | Prince Phillip did send letters to the Princess. I saw them. They were in the box of secrets. I don't know where they are now. |
Rod Steiger | Awards are great until your first picture don't make money. You're the biggest man in the world for the time it takes to go from the microphone into the press box. If next picture don't make money, you know, that's it. |
Rush Limbaugh | But liberals know their agenda isn't popular enough to win at the ballot box, and the only way they can shape the nation is through activist judges. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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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. |
Benjamin Harrison | 1889-1893 | The man who has come to regard the ballot box as a juggler's hat has renounced his allegiance. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Box" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.61% of the time. "Box" is used about 8,701 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 98.61% | 8,580 | 1,124 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 1.04% | 91 | 34,491 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.18% | 16 | 87,710 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.16% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Total | 100.00% | 8,701 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "box" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Box | Last name | 4,000 | 2,775 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name |
| USA | Black Box Corporation |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "box": accumulator box ♦ alms box ♦ Axle box ♦ Balaam basket or box ♦ balcony flower box ♦ ballot box ♦ ballot box stuffing ♦ batter's box ♦ be in the same box ♦ be in the wrong box ♦ Bernoulli Box ♦ bird box ♦ bitty box ♦ black box ♦ blue Box ♦ boom box ♦ bounding box ♦ box barrage ♦ Box beam ♦ box bed ♦ box Butte County ♦ box caisson ♦ box calf ♦ box camera ♦ box canyon ♦ Box car ♦ box card ♦ box cart ♦ Box chronometer ♦ box cloth ♦ Box coat ♦ Box coupling ♦ Box crab ♦ box diagram ♦ Box drain ♦ box Elder ♦ box Elder County ♦ box end wrench ♦ box family ♦ box girder ♦ Box groove ♦ Box holly ♦ box huckleberry ♦ box in ♦ box junction ♦ box kiln ♦ box kite ♦ box Kodak ♦ Box level ♦ box lumber ♦ box magazine ♦ Box metal ♦ box number ♦ box of ♦ box of bricks ♦ box of matches ♦ box off ♦ box office ♦ box on the ear ♦ box on the ears ♦ box or frame ♦ Box plait ♦ box pleat ♦ box room ♦ box seat ♦ Box sextant ♦ box smb.'s ear ♦ box smb.'s ears ♦ box spanner ♦ box spring ♦ box stall ♦ Box tail ♦ box the compass ♦ box the ear ♦ Box thorn ♦ box timber ♦ Box tortoise ♦ Box tree ♦ Box turtle ♦ box unit ♦ box up ♦ Box vulgaris ♦ box wallah ♦ box white oak ♦ box wood ♦ box wrap ♦ box wrench ♦ Brain box ♦ branch on Chip Box Full ♦ brancn box ♦ breast box ♦ breeding box for premature infants ♦ cable box ♦ California box elder ♦ call box ♦ candy box ♦ cardboard box ♦ carriage box ♦ cartridge box ♦ cash box ♦ cashier's box. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "box": box-ad, box-arrow, box-barrage, box-barrow, box-bed, box-beds, box-calf, box-car, box-carrying, box-cars, box-chairs, box-compass, box-containing, box-couch, box-edged, box-file, box-files, box-fish, box-flues, box-folds, box-full, box-girder, box-hats, box-hedge, box-ing, Box-iron, box-jellies, Box-Jenkins, box-just, box-keeper, box-leafed, box-like, box-load, box-maker, box-message, box-number, box-off, box-office, box-office hit, box-offices, box-out, box-pleated, box-ridge, box-room, box-rooms, box-seat, box-set, box-shape, box-shaped, box-shifter, box-shifting, box-spanner, box-sprung, box-stalls, box-stick-and-banana, box-style, box-swap, box-tickers, box-ticking, box-tomb, Box-tree, box-type, box-walking, box-within-a-box, box-wood. | |
Ending with "box": boy-in-the-box, call-box, cash-box, chocolate-box, commentary-box, cool-box, egg-box, gear-box, hmg-box, horse-box, ice-box, jewel-box, letter-box, light-box, money-box, pencil-box, phone-box, picture-box, pillar-box, pill-box, post-box, Spice-box, telephone-box, tinder-box, tool-box, window-box, witness-box, x-box. | |
Containing "box": black-box testing, cardboard-box-making, cigar-box cedar, closed-box testing, double-box-of-popcorn, Hammer-the-dispatch-box-major, Sand-box tree, shoe-box-shaped, Tata-box-factor, T-Box Domain Proteins. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
mail box | 15,954 | tool box | 1,334 |
x box | 13,297 | box turtle | 1,284 |
x box cheat | 11,574 | truck tool box | 1,282 |
x box cheat code | 4,453 | boom box | 1,280 |
x box game | 3,725 | music box | 1,243 |
box office | 3,545 | game cheat x box | 1,181 |
music match juke box | 3,344 | toy box | 1,111 |
box | 3,244 | x box emulator | 1,068 |
juke box | 3,121 | black box | 1,060 |
mail box etc | 2,707 | band in a box | 1,032 |
cable box | 2,675 | real juke box | 956 |
x box code | 2,675 | box cheat enter matrix x | 934 |
jewelry box | 2,675 | gift box | 870 |
window box | 2,568 | digital cable box | 866 |
jack in the box | 1,784 | box live x | 740 |
cable black box | 1,750 | cigar box purse | 704 |
2 box cheat club midnight x | 1,628 | hat box | 703 |
moving box | 1,396 | pandoras box | 674 |
a mod chip for the x box | 1,352 | x box game review | 659 |
box car racer | 1,345 | speaker box | 649 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "box"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | doos, boks (container, jug, vessel), pot (container, jug, pot, vessel). (various references) | |
Albanian | kuti (canister, case, casket, container, crate, receptacle, sandbank, Square, thriftbox, tray). (various references) | |
Arabic | لاكم (fight), الصندوق (case), صان بصندوق, صندوق (ark, bin, case, chest, container, crate, fund, hutch, kitty, locker, rack, receiver, till), عبأ (enlist, load, mobilize, put up, top up), علبة (can, pigeonhole), زريبة لفرس, شجرة البقس, وضع في الصندوق, علبة (case), لكزة (poke, punch), لكم (bust, knock, punch, slug, sock, strike, to you, yours), لكمة على الأذن, هدية فى علبة, مقصورة (closet, compartment), كشك (booth, hut, kiosk, shack, stall), ورطة (deadlock, dilemma, entanglement, fix, hole, hot water, jam, maw, mess, pickle, plight, predicament, quagmire, quandary, stalemate). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | сепаре, сандък (bin, case, chest, coffer, crib, hutch, packing case), хижа (cabin, hovel, hut, rest house, shanty), чемширово дърво (boxwood), чемшир (boxwood), кутия (cabinet, case, casing, container, housing), ковчег (ark, bier, casket, coffin), кабина (booth, cab, cabin, cage, gondola), капра (coach box), ложа (gunstock), будка (pavilion), боксирам. (various references) | |
Catalan | caixa (cashier's stand, fund, money box, money-box, till). (various references) | |
Chinese | 簏 (basket), 箱子 (Boxes), 箱 (chest, trunk), 匚 (basket, pigsty, receive with both hands, rest-room), 匣 . (various references) | |
Czech | krabice (case, cist, pack, packet). (various references) | |
Danish | kiste (chest), dåse (tin packing, tinning), beholder (barrel, container, jug, vase, vessel). (various references) | |
Dutch | doosje, doos (container, jug, vessel), boksen (boxing). (various references) | |
Esperanto | boksi, ujo (container, jug, vessel), skatolo, skatoleto, kesto (chest). (various references) | |
Faeroese | kassi (chest), dós (chest). (various references) | |
Farsi | مشت زدن (Fist, Knuckle), لژ (Loge, Stall), قوطی (Can, Canister, Package), توگوشی , سیلی زدن (Slap, Spat), سیلی (Buffet, Slap, Slog, Spat), صندوق (Bin, Case, Chest, Coffer, Trunk), جعبه (Case, Chest), جای ویژه (Bench, Booth), احاطه کردن (Beset, Circle, Circuit, Corral, Encircle, Encompass, Envelop, Girdle, Hedge, Hem, Hoop, Impale, Orb, Pale, Ring, Skirt, Sphere), اطاقک (Booth, Cubicle), درقاب یاچهارچوب گذاشتن , درجعبه محصورکردن , بوکس بازی کردن , بوکس . (various references) | |
Finnish | rasia (case). (various references) | |
French | coffre (boot), caisse (money box), boîte, loge, coffret, carton (board), carter, buis (boxwood), boxer (boxer), box (box stall). (various references) | |
Frisian | bokse, bak (container, jug, vessel), kiste (chest), doaze (container, jug, vessel). (various references) | |
German | Schachtel (carton, case, pack, package, packet, tart), Kasten (barn, barrack, bin, cabinet, case, castes, chest, coffer, crate, drawer, goal, heavyweight, hutch, showcase, tub), boxen (boxes, boxing, fight, force, hit, punch, push, spar, thump, to box), kiste (bus, case, chest, contraption, crate, crock, hutch, jalopy, packing case, sack, tub), dose (bowl, can, canister, compact, dish, jar, socket, tin), zelle (airframe, booth, cabin, cell, cubicle), karton (card, cardboard, cardboards, carton, cartoon, packboard, pasteboard), gehäuse (cabinet, cage, case, casing, chassis, core, holder, housing, housings, package, pod, shell, socket), box (cabinet, compartment, horse box, loose box, loudspeaker, parking place, pit, stall, stand, trap), Büchse (caddy, can, collecting box, gun, rifle, tin). (various references) | |
Greek | κιβώτιο (case, chest, container, trunk), κουτί (caddy, can, canister), πυγμαχώ (scrap, spar). (various references) | |
Hawaiian | kuti. (various references) | |
Hebrew | לשים בארגז (encase), להתאגרף (punch, spar, wrestle), תיק (bag, case, dossier, file, folder, portfolio, satchel), תבה (case, chest, crate, tidy), תא (cabin, cell, chamber, compartment, cubicle, room), קופסה (case), אשכרוע, ארגז (case, chest, crate), כליבה (vice, workbasket), גלוסקמה (chest, coffin, ossuary, sarcophagus), גובתה (cup, socket, tube). (various references) | |
Hungarian | doboz (can, canister, case, pack, sterilized drum), páholy, láda (bin, boot, case, chest, crate, hutch). (various references) | |
Icelandic | skrín. (various references) | |
Indonesian | bis (bus, pipe, tube), bertinju, peti (case, chest, hutch, kit, quod, trunk), menampar (bash, knock, slap), kotak (basket, kit). (various references) | |
Irish | bosca, ciste (chest, chest; treasure), cófra (chest), araid (chest). (various references) | |
Italian | scatola (can, canister, case, chest, tin), cassa (bank, case, cash, cash desk, cash register, chest, container, counter, desk, fund, jug, pay desk, safe, strongbox, till, vessel), vaso (bowl, container, duct, gallipot, jar, jug, pipkin, pot, urn, vase, vessel), tinozza (bath, container, jug, kit, tub, vat, vessel), palco (dais, flooring, platform, stage, stand), fare il pugilato, cassone (caisson, cassone, castes, chest), cassetta (cartridge, cassette, chest). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 箱. (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ボックス , ますせき, ますめ (measure, square), さじき (gallery, reviewing stand), かこみ (column, enclosure, |
