(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.
Demarcation
Definition:
(n.) The act of marking, or of ascertaining and setting a limit; separation; distinction.
Example Sentences:
(1) Immunofluorescence and immunoelectronmicroscopy experiments demonstrated that while tight junctions demarcate PAS-O distribution in confluent cultures, apical polarity could be established at low culture densities when cells could not form tight junctions with neighboring cells.
(2) The carpus is initially a cartilaginous structure that subsequently demarcates into separate carpal bones.
(3) Most well-demarcated tumors can be removed by operation alone.
(4) These two distinct classes of human pseudogenes provide a molecular record of the history of cytochrome c evolution in primates and demarcate a short period of rapid evolution of the functional gene.
(5) Ultrastructurally, there was a sharp demarcation of only 10 mu between the region of injury and normal myocardium, with little evidence of heat injury.
(6) The subicular area, best expressed in the temporal sector, extends anteriorly over the corpus callosum to the subcallosal gyrus and, throughout its extent from the uncal to the septal junction, is clearly demarcated from limbic neocortex by a transition zone characterized by archicortical cells merging with cells in the deep layer of the bordering neocortex.
(7) By EUS, myogenic tumors originating from the proper muscle were delineated as clearly demarcated hypoechoic tumors arising from the fourth layer.
(8) Besides the notion of psychosomatic medicine as a way of viewing, there is need of a definition of so-called psychosomatic diseases from the aspect of demarcation against general bio-psycho-social interactions.
(9) Growth of cells in medium containing BrdU for two generations allows fluorometric documentation of the semiconservative distribution of newly replicated DNA between sister chromatids, and regions of sister chromated exchange are demarcated.
(10) Cells with demarcated borders showed rearrangement of microvilli into globular chains or ridges which lined up with the branching membrane.
(11) Three months later a computed tomographic scan obtained 2 hours after intravenous contrast injection demonstrated sharply demarcated, dense, persistent nephrograms corresponding to the irradiated areas.
(12) The YM2 cells had a developed demarcation membrane system around the nucleus and comprised 24% of the yolk sac megakaryopoietic cells.
(13) Furthermore the use of Betaisodona solution for instillation in the zone of demarcation will be examined.
(14) In most cases where demarcation was accompanied by migration the operation notes suggested a technical explanation and in three cases low-grade sepsis was responsible.
(15) Bicuculline-induced convulsions increased glucose use throughout the brain and sharply demarcated the ventral pallidum and globus pallidus.
(16) The differential diagnostic demarcation against other diseases of the CNS with similar CT findings and problems of differential diagnosis with MRI are discussed.
(17) Since the inception of sexology as an academic discipline a century ago, the boundary between sexology, the science, and sexosophy, the philosophy of sex, has been poorly demarcated, especially with respect to the principles of sex-reform movements.
(18) In the case without left atrial invasion, which was proved by autopsy, a high intensity line due to mediastinal fat demarcated the mass distinctly.
(19) The respiratory bronchiole found immediately distal to the terminal conducting airways had two clearly demarcated zones of distinctly different epithelial populations.
(20) Demarcation of perivesicular fatty infiltration is rendered more difficult by Gd-DTPA.