(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.
Speaker
Definition:
(n.) One who speaks.
(n.) One who utters or pronounces a discourse; usually, one who utters a speech in public; as, the man is a good speaker, or a bad speaker.
(n.) One who is the mouthpiece of others; especially, one who presides over, or speaks for, a delibrative assembly, preserving order and regulating the debates; as, the Speaker of the House of Commons, originally, the mouthpiece of the House to address the king; the Speaker of a House of Representatives.
(n.) A book of selections for declamation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Significant differences between laryngectomee and nonlaryngectomee judges were found when rating alaryngeal speakers, but not when rating normal, laryngeal speakers.
(2) In the experiments to be reported here, computer-averaged EMG data were obtained from PCA of native speakers of American English, Japanese, and Danish who uttered test words embedded in frame sentences.
(3) The speaker issued his warning after William Hague told MPs that the government would consult parliament but declined to explain the nature of the vote.
(4) The present study examines kinematic details of the laryngeal articulatory gesture in 2 deaf speakers and a control subject using transillumination of the larynx.
(5) They also had speakers, long before boomboxes and mobile phones pushed sounds out in public.
(6) The elderly groups' variability across the three muscles paralleled that of the 4-yr.-olds, suggesting that speech-motor equivalence returns to an earlier level of operation in aging speakers.
(7) But congressional aides said that House speaker John Boehner has not communicated his intentions for a floor vote to Sensenbrenner.
(8) In the wake of her win, Aung San Suu Kyi has written to Min Aung Hlaing, the president, Thein Sein, and the parliamentary Speaker, Shwe Mann, requesting a meeting to discuss the election and “national reconciliation”, according to the National League for Democracy Facebook page.
(9) And you’re doing it three weeks after the initial revelations, and only when your position is obviously under threat and with a no confidence motion in your position as Speaker looming.
(10) The Republican House speaker John Boehner and the Democratic Senate leader Harry Reid both expressed a desire on Wednesday to work together.
(11) This study explores the power of intonation to convey meaningful information about the communicative intent of the speaker in speech addressed to preverbal infants and in speech addressed to adults.
(12) Some of these grime artists, if they’re telling you to vote, young people are going to listen.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest “Preach!” Speakers on the Grime 4 Corbyn panel debate.
(13) One speaker at an international conference in Bodrum this week asked what would have happened if Turkey had been held closer by the EU?
(14) Other speakers included Shami Chakrabarti , director of the human rights group Liberty, and the Labour MP Jeremy Corbyn who is on the Commons justice select committee.
(15) "I think that Joseph Kabila could go down in history ... if he were to say 'I'm a good sport and I lost,'" said opposition candidate Vital Kamerhe, a former speaker of Parliament.
(16) Ministers can glean vital gossip about cabinet reshuffles if they keep on the right side of their drivers, who form the most high-class grapevine in Britain as they wait in the Speaker's courtyard at Westminster while their charges vote in the Commons.
(17) One of the few Tories who backed him for Speaker says that his increasingly aggressive put-downs of backbenchers have begun to alienate colleagues.
(18) A Benn family spokesperson said: "At the suggestion of the Speaker of the House of Commons and by agreement with the Lords Speaker, Black Rod and the dean of Westminster Abbey, an approach was made by Black Rod to the palace for agreement that Mr Benn's body rest in the chapel of St Mary Undercroft on the night before his funeral.
(19) Regardless of sex, listeners tended to underestimate the age of the speakers.
(20) A number of expert-speakers made recommendations on the basis of currently available information.