(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.
Set
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Set
(v. t.) To cause to sit; to make to assume a specified position or attitude; to give site or place to; to place; to put; to fix; as, to set a house on a stone foundation; to set a book on a shelf; to set a dish on a table; to set a chest or trunk on its bottom or on end.
(v. t.) Hence, to attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place.
(v. t.) To make to assume specified place, condition, or occupation; to put in a certain condition or state (described by the accompanying words); to cause to be.
(v. t.) To fix firmly; to make fast, permanent, or stable; to render motionless; to give an unchanging place, form, or condition to.
(v. t.) To cause to stop or stick; to obstruct; to fasten to a spot; hence, to occasion difficulty to; to embarrass; as, to set a coach in the mud.
(v. t.) To fix beforehand; to determine; hence, to make unyielding or obstinate; to render stiff, unpliant, or rigid; as, to set one's countenance.
(v. t.) To fix in the ground, as a post or a tree; to plant; as, to set pear trees in an orchard.
(v. t.) To fix, as a precious stone, in a border of metal; to place in a setting; hence, to place in or amid something which serves as a setting; as, to set glass in a sash.
(v. t.) To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into curd; to curdle; as, to set milk for cheese.
(v. t.) To put into a desired position or condition; to adjust; to regulate; to adapt.
(v. t.) To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare; as, to set (that is, to hone) a razor; to set a saw.
(v. t.) To extend and bring into position; to spread; as, to set the sails of a ship.
(v. t.) To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the keynote; as, to set a psalm.
(v. t.) To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state; to replace; as, to set a broken bone.
(v. t.) To make to agree with some standard; as, to set a watch or a clock.
(v. t.) To lower into place and fix solidly, as the blocks of cut stone in a structure.
(v. t.) To stake at play; to wager; to risk.
(v. t.) To fit with music; to adapt, as words to notes; to prepare for singing.
(v. t.) To determine; to appoint; to assign; to fix; as, to set a time for a meeting; to set a price on a horse.
(v. t.) To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to variegate with objects placed here and there.
(v. t.) To value; to rate; -- with at.
(v. t.) To point out the seat or position of, as birds, or other game; -- said of hunting dogs.
(v. t.) To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to assign; as, to set an example; to set lessons to be learned.
(v. t.) To suit; to become; as, it sets him ill.
(v. t.) To compose; to arrange in words, lines, etc.; as, to set type; to set a page.
(v. i.) To pass below the horizon; to go down; to decline; to sink out of sight; to come to an end.
(v. i.) To fit music to words.
(v. i.) To place plants or shoots in the ground; to plant.
(v. i.) To be fixed for growth; to strike root; to begin to germinate or form; as, cuttings set well; the fruit has set well (i. e., not blasted in the blossom).
(v. i.) To become fixed or rigid; to be fastened.
(v. i.) To congeal; to concrete; to solidify.
(v. i.) To have a certain direction in motion; to flow; to move on; to tend; as, the current sets to the north; the tide sets to the windward.
(v. i.) To begin to move; to go out or forth; to start; -- now followed by out.
(v. i.) To indicate the position of game; -- said of a dog; as, the dog sets well; also, to hunt game by the aid of a setter.
(v. i.) To apply one's self; to undertake earnestly; -- now followed by out.
(v. i.) To fit or suit one; to sit; as, the coat sets well.
(a.) Fixed in position; immovable; rigid; as, a set line; a set countenance.
(a.) Firm; unchanging; obstinate; as, set opinions or prejudices.
(a.) Regular; uniform; formal; as, a set discourse; a set battle.
(a.) Established; prescribed; as, set forms of prayer.
(a.) Adjusted; arranged; formed; adapted.
(n.) The act of setting, as of the sun or other heavenly body; descent; hence, the close; termination.
(n.) That which is set, placed, or fixed.
(n.) A young plant for growth; as, a set of white thorn.
(n.) That which is staked; a wager; a venture; a stake; hence, a game at venture.
(n.) Permanent change of figure in consequence of excessive strain, as from compression, tension, bending, twisting, etc.; as, the set of a spring.
(n.) A kind of punch used for bending, indenting, or giving shape to, metal; as, a saw set.
(n.) A piece placed temporarily upon the head of a pile when the latter cannot be reached by the weight, or hammer, except by means of such an intervening piece.
(n.) A short steel spike used for driving the head of a nail below the surface.
(n.) A number of things of the same kind, ordinarily used or classed together; a collection of articles which naturally complement each other, and usually go together; an assortment; a suit; as, a set of chairs, of china, of surgical or mathematical instruments, of books, etc.
(n.) A number of persons associated by custom, office, common opinion, quality, or the like; a division; a group; a clique.
(n.) Direction or course; as, the set of the wind, or of a current.
(n.) In dancing, the number of persons necessary to execute a quadrille; also, the series of figures or movements executed.
(n.) The deflection of a tooth, or of the teeth, of a saw, which causes the the saw to cut a kerf, or make an opening, wider than the blade.
(n.) A young oyster when first attached.
(n.) Collectively, the crop of young oysters in any locality.
(n.) A series of as many games as may be necessary to enable one side to win six. If at the end of the tenth game the score is a tie, the set is usually called a deuce set, and decided by an application of the rules for playing off deuce in a game. See Deuce.
(n.) That dimension of the body of a type called by printers the width.
Example Sentences:
(1) The various evocational changes appear to form sets of interconnected systems and this complex network seems to embody some plasticity since it has been possible to suppress experimentally some of the most universal evocational events or alter their temporal order without impairing evocation itself.
(2) Serum samples from 23 families, including a total of 48 affected children, were tested for a set of "classical markers."
(3) The Cole-Moore effect, which was found here only under a specific set of conditions, thus may be a special case rather than the general property of the membrane.
(4) It involves creativity, understanding of art form and the ability to improvise in the highly complex environment of a care setting.” David Cameron has boosted dementia awareness but more needs to be done Read more She warns: “To effect a cultural change in dementia care requires a change of thinking … this approach is complex and intricate, and can change cultural attitudes by regarding the arts as central to everyday life of the care home.” Another participant, Mary*, a former teacher who had been bedridden for a year, read plays with the reminiscence arts practitioner.
(5) All former US presidents set up a library in their name to house their papers and honour their legacy.
(6) Why bother to put the investigators, prosecutors, judge, jury and me through this if one person can set justice aside, with the swipe of a pen.
(7) There was virtually no difference in a set of subtypic determinants between the serum and liver.
(8) It is entirely proper for serving judges to set out the arguments in high-profile cases to help public understanding of the legal issues, as long as it is done in an even-handed way.
(9) Second, the unknown is searched against the database to find all materials with the same or similar element types; the results are kept in set 2.
(10) The stepped approach is cost-effective and provides an objective basis for decisions and priority setting.
(11) The scleral arc length is slightly longer than the chord length (caliper setting).
(12) Dominic Fifield Facebook Twitter Pinterest Ravel Morrison, who has been on loan at QPR, may be set for a return to Loftus Road.
(13) When reformist industrialist Robert Owen set about creating a new community among the workers in his New Lanark cotton-spinning mills at the turn of the nineteenth century, it was called socialism, not corporate social responsibility.
(14) The denial of justice to victims of British torture, some of which Britain admits, is set to continue.
(15) In the genitourinary clinic setting, clinical diagnosis prior to biopsy was found frequently to be inaccurate.
(16) We set a new basic plane on an orthopantomogram in order to measure the gonial angle and obtained the following: 1) Usable error difference in ordinary clinical setting ranged from 0.5 degrees-1.0 degree.
(17) It is intended to aid in finding the appropriate PI (proportional-integral) controller settings by means of computer simulation instead of real experiments with the system.
(18) This alloimmune memory was shown to survive for up to 50 days after first-set rejection.
(19) Short-forms of Wechsler intelligence tests have abounded in the literature and have been recommended for use as screening instruments in clinical and research settings.
(20) Unstable subcapital fractures and dislocation fractures of the humerus can usually be set by closed reduction.