(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.
Loge
Definition:
(n.) A lodge; a habitation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Gastric emptying curves for all three meals in controls were best described using loge transformed counts.
(2) The mean of the within-person to between-person variance ratios, after exclusion of two outlying foods, was 3.4 for untransformed portion sizes, and 3.2 after portion sizes were loge-transformed.
(3) Reactivity to RESA showed the lowest titres in primigravid women, intermediate titres in nulligravid women and the highest titres in multigravid women (loge mean antibody = 3.28, 4.64, and 5.28, respectively, P less than 0.03), but was not associated with initial parasite density or response to chloroquine treatment.
(4) The permeability ratio of [99mTc]EHDP to the freely diffusible compound, sucrose, using the formula PS = -Fs loge (1 - Emax), was 0.71.
(5) Calculation of capillary permeability surface area product [PS = Fp loge (1 - E)] showed an increasing PS with plasma flows.
(6) Beside measurements of the wall structures in the region of the pisiform bone, the hook of hamate and the entrances of the loge, variations of muscles and the position of the ulnar artery and nerve with their terminal branches have also been examined.
(7) The surgical incision of the loge of Guyon, the carpal channel, the forearm and proximal of the lacertus fibrosus was persuaded.
(8) There is a stable, relatively small nucleus (a) of individual defects which stay in the same location for three years and mainly have the most severe loss (greater than or equal to 2.0 logE).
(9) Linear and base 10 logarithmic (log10) equations using primarily SF measures tended to have higher r2 and lower RFE than equations based on quadratic and natural logarithmic (loge) models and other anthropometric measures.
(10) An analysis of covariance revealed that the slopes for the regression of loge CBMW on HbA1c differed significantly (P = .02) among the three groups.
(11) A linear correlation between the protein binding parameter (loge P) and the frontier electron density (qr) was observed for the binding of this group of trichomonicidal drugs.
(12) Because of the small number of cases and the different types of lesion, pressure on the nerve in the "Loge de Guyon" cannot yet (in contrast to the CTS) be defined by intraoperative pressure recording.
(13) This is distinguished from a loge syndrome; the most typical clinical sign is increased pain in the territory of the sural nerve during plantar flexion of the ankle; in this position reduced sensory conduction velocity is measured.
(14) The mean loge coefficient of variation of 100 R-R intervals was significantly reduced in groups with Parkinson's disease, spinocerebellar degeneration, Shy-Drager syndrome and diabetes mellitus, compared with a normal control group.
(15) With the Kolmogorov-Smirnov difference test, the cumulative frequency of reaction diameters and loge-transformed diameters of all reactions and reactions to individual allergenic extracts differed significantly (p less than or equal to 0.01) from a normal distribution.
(16) One Thursday afternoon in January, the assistant manager, finishing up his work at Camp des Loges, took a call from Broad.
(17) In 40 hands of adults the 'loge de Guyon', a narrow bounded area within the proximal hypothenar region, has been dissected to realize an exact determination of the important characteristics of size.
(18) The elongated styloid process was discovered during tonsillectomy in the tonsilar loge.
(19) The passage of the ulnar nerve through the loge de Guyon at the volar aspect of the wrist is defined and described anatomically.
(20) The Swede was among a number of players to demand a transcript of the broadcast when they arrived at training at Camp des Loges on Sunday.