What's the difference between boxing and fisticuffs?

Boxing


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Box
  • (n.) The act of inclosing (anything) in a box, as for storage or transportation.
  • (n.) Material used in making boxes or casings.
  • (n.) Any boxlike inclosure or recess; a casing.
  • (n.) The external case of thin material used to bring any member to a required form.
  • (n.) The act of fighting with the fist; a combat with the fist; sparring.

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.

Fisticuffs


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I've spent a most enjoyable evening with the redoubtable Professor Elemental, who as you know is not averse to a bit of fisticuffs himself .
  • (2) Perhaps Mrs Patmore would get her hand stuck in the new electric mixer, or footmen Alfred and Jimmy's rivalry would come to a head with some gloves-off fisticuffs – certainly not the brutal rape of lady's maid and viewers' favourite Anna Bates .
  • (3) It is unheard of for the Bank to get involved in such verbal fisticuffs.
  • (4) It was only when he had a bout of fisticuffs with his deputy of 17 years, Adam Helliker, whose coming departure for a column of his own Dempster regarded as a betrayal, and when he faced another drink-driving charge (a previous conviction had been quashed on appeal) that his world began seriously to implode.
  • (5) Five cases (six eyes) of retinal detachment due to fisticuffs are recorded; at least four eyes went blind.
  • (6) He did not want to get into fisticuffs with Mitt," he said.
  • (7) Fight Club seemed all fisticuffs and buff Brad Pitt, then slyly indicted the lifestyle of a generation.
  • (8) While it never amounted to fisticuffs, this lairy threat has been repeated in different forms at regular intervals throughout the past 13 years of Williams's career, depleting slightly in its extremity as each album campaign gets churned out.
  • (9) 12.19pm BST Verbal fisticuffs between Labour's Chris Bryant and economic secretary Sajid Javid .
  • (10) We are all used to the sort of annual fisticuffs at press awards, and all the shouting matches, and we all hate each other."
  • (11) A patient with osteomyelitis of the distal right first metacarpal bone due to Actinomyces israelii following a punch injury during fisticuffs is described.
  • (12) But no amount of political fisticuffs could have prepared him for breaking up fights, trying to persuade students who "couldn't sit still for more than five minutes" to write essays, or, in one memorable incident, dealing with a teenager who was threatening to climb out of a window, six floors up.
  • (13) It’s not like this in real life – but how would you know?” Undeterred by protests about his infringement of copyright, Trump uses Jerry Goldsmith’s embattled but rousingly brassy music from the film to underscore his campaign appearances, and when he arrived in Cleveland for the Republican convention in July he was greeted by the fanfares that accompany Ford’s gung-ho bouts of fisticuffs with the hijackers.
  • (14) After fisticuffs in parliament the Italians have agreed on a package of the economic reforms demanded by EU leaders .
  • (15) Each one of us must shoulder some of the responsibility for Falkirk MP Eric Joyce's allegedly drunken fisticuffs, because it is we who subsidise the drinks in the Houses of Parliament, and therefore we who must acknowledge our role in the cheap booze culture that MPs have rightly observed is shaming Britain.
  • (16) But let's not pretend that fisticuffs are a regular feature of the Palace of Westminster.
  • (17) But these exchanges rarely culminate in fisticuffs.
  • (18) The catfight didn't stop there, with proper fisticuffs breaking out, giving Charity the opportunity to feign a miscarriage.