(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.
Lunchbox
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Photograph: Franck Allais and Ed Johns for the Guardian Thomasina Miers' banana bread recipe isn't too fatty, and keeps for ages so could last for a good few lunchboxes.
(2) Patel is confident he will not give up his serenity for the madness that the corridor promises to bring: “Even if DMIC succeeds in setting up industrial hubs that thrive, we do not want to become robotic labourers who carry their lunchboxes to work every day.
(3) Indian hit The Lunchbox also misses out, despite being tipped by many as a potential prize winner, as the organisation which picks the country's contender chose The Good Road instead.
(4) How could anyone believe it to be normal for a child to scavenge around bins to access waste; and to steal food from the lunchboxes?"
(5) They used to have a tradition: each warder would select a prisoner who was their "handy boy" who would carry their flask and their lunchbox.
(6) Be adventurous… It's time for parma ham, mozzarella and caviar lunchboxes.
(7) I've seen some whoppers in my time, but Dion's is something else" - his verdict on Dion Dublin's lunchbox, according to the then Coventry chairman Bryan Richardson, in 1994.
(8) The hack who had arranged to smuggle a letter into her daughter's lunchbox.
(9) New school years are dealt with by the purchase, in August, of pencil cases, lunchboxes and too-long trousers.
(10) Display cases show the shredded remains of a junior high-school uniform, the irradiated contents of a lunchbox and the frame of a tricycle – the small boy riding it was incinerated by the blast.
(11) But we all know that the daily grind of filling lunchboxes doesn't make it easy to come up with imaginative alternatives.
(12) Pakistani children returned to the school where Taliban gunmen killed 150 of their classmates and teachers on Monday, their green school blazers, Superman lunchboxes and hands clutched tightly to their parents a symbol of perseverance despite the horrors they had endured.
(13) "How could anyone believe it to be normal for a child to scavenge around bins to access waste; and to steal food from the lunchboxes?
(14) That would fit with an industry agenda to prevent or delay the uptake of a system that will allow parents to know how healthy the food is that they are putting in their children’s lunchboxes.
(15) Treats Strawberry fruit leather Photograph: Claire Thomson Claire Thomson's strawberry leather is a fruity treat for lunchboxes.
(16) Here is Tschiesche's recommendation for a fast, easy to acquire and nutritiously balanced lunchbox: • Pasta salad with vegetables and meat • Pot of low-sugar yoghurt • Fresh fruit • Drink of water or milk • Dried fruit or trail mix rather than cereal bars • Fruit juice or a fruit smoothie could be substituted for fresh fruit • Other alternatives include hummus and cut-up carrot batons
(17) Slices of rat brain sit in a plastic sieve balanced in a lunchbox filled with the fluid.
(18) The ideal school lunchbox should contain six elements: carbohydrates, protein, calcium, fruit, vegetables and a drink.
(19) Children go to school with mutant fruit forms in their lunchboxes – fruit strings, fruit shapes, fruit chews – that are made from juice and puree concentrate.
(20) Abolish the states and these lunchbox legends, who couldn’t cut it in federal parliament, would have to get real jobs.