(n.) A light box of pasteboard or thin wood, usually cylindrical, for holding ruffs (the bands of the 17th century), collars, caps, bonnets, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) As John Updike once wrote , it's a "lyrical little bandbox" and that remains true today, especially that little part.
Sandbox
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) "Extensions live inside an application's sandbox, but apps can reach through the OS to request.
(2) The concept is similar to the versions of Minecraft and sandbox space sim Kerbal Space Program, converted for school room use by Finnish company, TeacherGaming .
(3) Unashamedly inspired by Minecraft but with a 2D spin, it's an excellent sandbox to explore.
(4) Mojang's creative sandbox was released for iOS in November 2011, and in 2013 was the 18th top grossing app on both iPhone and iPad in the UK – the only paid game in the top 20 of those charts.
(5) The ad features a child making snow angels in a sandbox and a couple are seen kissing under a sprig of salad instead of misletoe.
(6) Tynker is one of the apps that aims to help them practise at home: a collection of “coding puzzles” teaching kids about programming, with a sandbox mode to make their own games.
(7) Too many add-ons and expansions have confused casual observers and some feel the concept has strayed too far away from creator Will Wright's original vision of a sandbox life simulation.
(8) He says it's like offering up a sandbox when what is needed is a new playing field (the climate talks in Warsaw are taking place in a stadium).
(9) By open-sourcing the sandbox that limits the Adobe software’s access to the system, Mozilla is making it auditable and verifiable.
(10) I thought, holy shit, that’s like science meets a sandbox.
(11) The Y. pseudotuberculosis serotype 1b and 3 strains isolated from soil from the dried-up puddles and sand and feces from the sandbox proved to be from a stray cat.
(12) And I think all of us at some points in our lives have played sports or maybe just played in a schoolyard or a sandbox.
(13) "By keeping each tab in an isolated 'sandbox', we were able to prevent one tab from crashing another and provide improved protection from rogue sites," said Pichai and Upson.
(14) This seems unlikely to work very well: whatever techniques the module is using to assure itself that the sandbox is behaving as expected ultimately depend on it asking the operating system questions about the sandbox (“is the sandbox running as a process that can’t access the hard drive?”).
(15) In an extended call for Sanders supporters to join her on the journey toward backing Clinton, Silverman memorably described her Republican opponent as “calling people names from his gold-encrusted sandbox because [he] was given money instead of human touch”.
(16) But if users modify the sandbox in any way – if they add new features or improvements to it – the Adobe plug-in can detect the alteration and it will refuse to pass any more decoded video.
(17) They will run inside the most restrictive sandbox - so without access to the network unless you allow them.
(18) But then there are apps like Blokify – essentially the creative sandbox part of Minecraft with the option to 3D-print the things children build at home, or order them from partners.
(19) The open sandbox in which Adobe’s software operates very strictly limits the DRM’s access to the computer’s other processes and systems.
(20) It has the gangster story and the sandbox stuff, but then it has all these satirical radio stations, and even weirder, deeper jokes and commentary."