What's the difference between box and casket?

Box


Definition:

  • (n.) A tree or shrub, flourishing in different parts of the world. The common box (Buxus sempervirens) has two varieties, one of which, the dwarf box (B. suffruticosa), is much used for borders in gardens. The wood of the tree varieties, being very hard and smooth, is extensively used in the arts, as by turners, engravers, mathematical instrument makers, etc.
  • (n.) A receptacle or case of any firm material and of various shapes.
  • (n.) The quantity that a box contain.
  • (n.) A space with a few seats partitioned off in a theater, or other place of public amusement.
  • (n.) A chest or any receptacle for the deposit of money; as, a poor box; a contribution box.
  • (n.) A small country house.
  • (n.) A boxlike shed for shelter; as, a sentry box.
  • (n.) An axle box, journal box, journal bearing, or bushing.
  • (n.) A chamber or section of tube in which a valve works; the bucket of a lifting pump.
  • (n.) The driver's seat on a carriage or coach.
  • (n.) A present in a box; a present; esp. a Christmas box or gift.
  • (n.) The square in which the pitcher stands.
  • (n.) A Mediterranean food fish; the bogue.
  • (v. t.) To inclose in a box.
  • (v. t.) To furnish with boxes, as a wheel.
  • (v. t.) To inclose with boarding, lathing, etc., so as to bring to a required form.
  • (n.) A blow on the head or ear with the hand.
  • (v. i.) To fight with the fist; to combat with, or as with, the hand or fist; to spar.
  • (v. t.) To strike with the hand or fist, especially to strike on the ear, or on the side of the head.
  • (v. t.) To boxhaul.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Would people feel differently about it if, for instance, it happened on Boxing Day or Christmas Eve?
  • (2) In the absence of an authentic target for the MASH proteins, we examined their DNA binding and transcriptional regulatory activity by using a binding site (the E box) from the muscle creatine kinase (MCK) gene, a target of MyoD.
  • (3) However, valid electroacoustic evaluation of the DMHAs cannot be accomplished using the conventional hearing aid test box.
  • (4) An AT-rich stretch is centered at position -31 with respect to the transcription initiation site, and a potential CCAAT box is centered at position -138.
  • (5) Calves were fed milk replacer twice daily while housed indoors in wooden-slatted floor box crates (metabolism cages).
  • (6) In contrast, BTEB repressed the activity of a promoter containing BTE, a single GC box of the CYP1A1 gene that is stimulated by Sp1.
  • (7) The protein sequence of the homoeo domain is identical to that encoded by Hu-1, one of a the pair of closely linked homoeo boxes in the human genome.
  • (8) It was sent into the box and Jaap Stam's free header went towards Kaka at the far post.
  • (9) But as an entertaining family experience, it ticks almost every box.
  • (10) Piedmont’s research, which was conducted among 3,000 filmgoers and weighted to the demographics of the cinemagoing public, is not the same as the Hollywood tracking system, which delivers predictions of box-office success.
  • (11) Illustration by Andrzej Krause Photograph: Guardian The Foreign Office attributed the forgotten boxes to "an earlier misunderstanding about contents" and stated that there needed to be an "improvement in archive management".
  • (12) Although the islet promoter was found to lack a TATA box, a major transcript from the islet promoter was mapped 486 nucleotides upstream of the translation initiation site.
  • (13) We conclude that the activity of the gamma-subunit gene is determined largely by E boxes, which in vivo are likely to be activated by MyoD family proteins; in addition, other transactivators such as the M-CAT binding protein presumably play a role.
  • (14) There was an upstream "HTF" island (Hpa II tiny fragments) followed by four direct repeats of the "chorion box" enhancer.
  • (15) While there would inevitably be some interaction, Gibbs said, "I do not think the president approaches it like a boxing match."
  • (16) Weir soon has to hack away a cross from Bodmer which would otherwise have found Govou in the box.
  • (17) LU, a branch of the London mayor's Transport for London authority, claims that Aslef is seeking triple-time pay and an extra day off for members working on Boxing Day.
  • (18) Now another deep cross is thrown into the box and Guzan leaps to claim it, but can only parry it down and pick up the second ball.
  • (19) The spacing between the G-box sequences proved to be important for the full induction of gene expression.
  • (20) The Liverpool manager was incensed by Lee Mason's performance at the Etihad Stadium on Boxing Day, when a 2-1 defeat cost his team the Premier League leadership and Raheem Sterling had a first half goal disallowed for an incorrect offside call.

Casket


Definition:

  • (n.) A small chest or box, esp. of rich material or ornamental character, as for jewels, etc.
  • (n.) A kind of burial case.
  • (n.) Anything containing or intended to contain something highly esteemed
  • (n.) The body.
  • (n.) The tomb.
  • (n.) A book of selections.
  • (n.) A gasket. See Gasket.
  • (v. t.) To put into, or preserve in, a casket.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As Nelson Mandela lay in the open casket , his features both familiar and strange, a crisply suited Robert Mugabe gazed down at him through his dark glasses for a long, still, silent moment.
  • (2) The military arrived with a casket to collect Mandela's body at about midnight so it could be taken to a military hospital in the capital, Pretoria, where it will lie in state this week .
  • (3) Shuttles bused groups of mourners to take turns walking quietly in a circle around the casket covered in white roses and peonies – Nancy Reagan’s favorite flower.
  • (4) The images showed mourners, including Liu Xia, gathered beside a casket that was ringed by pots of white chrysanthemums.
  • (5) Pictures of the funeral show her bowed over her husband's casket, stricken with grief.
  • (6) The casket containing Havel's body was being transported from the Prague Crossroads, a former church turned by Havel into a cultural centre, to the Prague castle, the seat of the presidency, where it will be on display until Friday's state funeral.
  • (7) When the private service ended, House Speaker Paul Ryan bowed his head at the casket, made the sign of the cross and clasped his hands in prayer for about a minute.
  • (8) At the church, a large bouquet of red roses and a St Louis Cardinals baseball cap adorned Brown’s closed casket.
  • (9) The pen is being sold together with two silver caskets, one of which was presented to Lord Carson on Ulster Day to mark the occasion, the other having been a gift by Unionists to Lady Carson in 1914, to mark their wedding anniversary.
  • (10) Rain fell softly on Eric Garner’s white casket as it was loaded into a hearse that would drive the 43-year-old father, who died after a New York police officer put him in a chokehold , to his final resting place following an emotional funeral on Wednesday night.
  • (11) While an increasing number opt of people for “green burials” – which tend to involve burials in meadow and woodland sites, in biodegradable shrouds or caskets made of anything from cardboard to banana leaf – others ponder the role cemeteries play in our cities, and what it would mean if we lost them altogether.
  • (12) A lone trumpeter played the Last Post as troops in dress uniform saluted then carried the wooden caskets to a row of hearses.
  • (13) The casket will be on display at the 15th century Vladislav hall until the funeral on Friday.
  • (14) Others were seen throwing flowers on the casket, also wrapped in the Iraqi flag.
  • (15) After the prayers, Davis led mourners in taking turns to pay their respects, standing quietly by her mother’s casket.
  • (16) An Iraqi flag draped over her shoulder, his mother led the mourners carrying his wooden casket and pounding their chests in grief.
  • (17) And then a few days later, I was there greeting the caskets coming into Andrews Air Force Base and grieving with the families.
  • (18) The archives of the Robert Koch Institute include a casket with preparations and handwritten notes by Robert Koch (Fig.
  • (19) WB I remember vividly the photographs in Jet magazine of Emmett Till in his casket in 1955.
  • (20) The grieving paused Friday in front of Sterling’s open casket, which was adorned with music notes and a smiling photo of the man.

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