(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.
Gang
Definition:
(v. i.) To go; to walk.
(v. i.) A going; a course.
(v. i.) A number going in company; hence, a company, or a number of persons associated for a particular purpose; a group of laborers under one foreman; a squad; as, a gang of sailors; a chain gang; a gang of thieves.
(v. i.) A combination of similar implements arranged so as, by acting together, to save time or labor; a set; as, a gang of saws, or of plows.
(v. i.) A set; all required for an outfit; as, a new gang of stays.
(v. i.) The mineral substance which incloses a vein; a matrix; a gangue.
Example Sentences:
(1) We ganged up against the tweed-suited, pipe-smoking brigade.
(2) There were members of the smuggling gang on the ship with walkie-talkies.
(3) In June, a notorious elephant poacher led a gang of bandits in an attack on the Okapi wildlife reserve in DRC, killing seven people.
(4) A focus on preventing children from joining gangs in the first place, as well as on offering gang members the access to education and employment that they have been lacking is more likely to be effective.
(5) He praised the obvious disgust of local people in parts of south and west Manchester, where gang problems have been concentrated.
(6) In Britain you have all the things we have here – gangs, poverty, racism.
(7) There are no cases Money could uncover of people convicted for slipping a dodgy £1 into a vending machine or palming one off to their newsagent, but criminal gangs have been jailed for manufacturing fake coins.
(8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘Our political leaders can’t bear to face the truth’: Camila Batmanghelidjh spoke to the Guardian’s Patrick Butler in July “So you can understand that I am taken aback by allegations which now present themselves, about which I knew nothing.” Kids Company, set up by the charismatic Batmanghelidjh in 1996, was known to have the firm support of David Cameron for its work on gang violence and disadvantaged children.
(9) As the gangs fragmented, many increasingly focused on extortion, kidnapping and human trafficking.
(10) This is how powerful a hold it has over them.” Mossino, who works with refugees and asylum seekers as well as victims of trafficking, says that in the past decade the trade in Nigerian women has become a hugely profitable and ruthless criminal industry, controlled largely by Nigerian gangs that took root in Italy in the 1980s.
(11) Experts and activists have said the murder bore all the hallmarks of Egypt’s notorious secret service, but Egyptian officials have consistently put forward alternative theories, including that Regeni was killed by a criminal gang and that his death was an isolated incident.
(12) Senior government sources have confirmed the budget razor gang has the fuel tax credit (formerly known as the diesel fuel rebate) “firmly in its sights” – a scheme that rebates miners and farmers and others for the off-road use of diesel.
(13) Gang members were also involved in a handful of more serious incidents including the shooting incident in Birmingham.
(14) "We hope all relevant parties will do that which benefits peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula, hope all sides will respond calmly and avoid exacerbating the situation," ministry spokesman Qin Gang said in the statement.
(15) "These are delicate times and we take a positive role," Yi Gang, deputy governor of the People's Bank of China, told the Guardian today.
(16) The Brinks Mat gang, some with guns, surprised six security staff as they started the Saturday shift between 6.30am and 8.15am at the warehouse, on the Heathrow industrial estate at Hounslow.
(17) The Guardian recently revealed that the Danish government had been forced, on the eve of the Copenhagen summit , to rush through an emergency law making it impossible for criminal gangs to reclaim huge amounts of VAT on fraudulent trades they were making on Europe's various carbon exchanges.
(18) In August, the capital came to a standstill as terrified workers were forced to stay home after gang leaders orchestrated a forced public transport boycott by killing a dozen bus drivers in response to a crackdown by authorities against organised crime.
(19) The last big one was only in August this year, when seven young people were beaten up by a gang of 40 Nazis."
(20) They do not operate as a cohesive gang or a whipped party-within-a-party – not yet, anyway.