box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɒks/
enpr: bäks
ipa: /bɑks/
rhymes: -ɒks
Forms: form: boxes
form: boxen
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek πῠ́ξος (pŭ́xos)
Ancient Greek -ις (-is)
Ancient Greek πυξίς (puxís)bor.
Late Latin buxisbor.
Proto-West Germanic *buhsā
Old English box
Middle English box
English box
From Middle English box (“container, box, cup”), from Old English box (“box, case”), from Proto-West Germanic *buhsā (“box”) from Late Latin buxis (“box”), Latin pyxis (“small box for medicines or toiletries”), of uncertain origin; compare Ancient Greek πυξίς (puxís, “box or tablet made of boxwood; box; cylinder”) and πύξος (púxos, “box tree; boxwood”). Doublet of piseog, pyx, and pyxis.
Cognate with Middle Dutch bosse, busse (“jar; tin; round box”) (modern Dutch bos (“wood, forest”), bus (“container, box; bushing of a wheel”)), Old High German buhsa (Middle High German buhse, bühse, modern German Büchse (“box; can”)), Swedish bössa (“box”).
The humorous plural form boxen is from box + -en, by analogy with oxen.
(motor racing): Used since it is more distinct over the radio compared to pit. Also from German Boxenstopp (“pit stop”).
Senses: examples: text: A terrible voice in the hall cried, "Bring down Master Scrooge's box, there!" and in the hall appeared the schoolmaster himself, who glared on Master Scrooge with a ferocious condescension, and threw him into a dreadful state of mind by shaking hands with him.
ref: 1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “Stave Two. The First of the Three Spirits.”, in A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 55:
text: The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, when modish taste was just due to go clean out of fashion for the best part of the next hundred years.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, “The Elopers”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 33:
glosses: Senses relating to a three-dimensional object or space.
A cuboid space; a cuboid container, often with a hinged lid.
synonyms: case
package
examples: text: a box of books
text: He brought me also a Box of Sugar, a Box of Flour, a Bag full of Lemons, and two Bottles of Lime-juice, and abundance of other Things: […]
ref: 1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC, page 325:
glosses: Senses relating to a three-dimensional object or space.
A cuboid container and its contents; as much as fills such a container.
synonyms: boxful
glosses: Senses relating to a three-dimensional object or space.
A compartment (as a drawer) of an item of furniture used for storage, such as a cupboard, a shelf, etc.
examples: text: post box  post office box
text: She'd picked up the high-tech phone from a post office box in Toronto a month ago. The key to that box had been mailed to a post office box in New York City. The Russians loved their cloak-and-dagger, particularly former KGB and Spetsnaz, Soviet special forces who ran the mafia, […]
ref: 2015 March, Cindy Gerard, chapter 10, in Running Blind, 1st Pocket Books paperback edition, New York, N.Y.: Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 73:
glosses: Senses relating to a three-dimensional object or space.
A compartment or receptacle for receiving items.
examples: text: Add five words for address if replies are to come to a box number address at any of our offices. These replies are forwarded each day as received, in new envelopes at no extra charge. […] When replying to blind ads be careful to put on your envelope the correct box number and do not enclose original letters of recommendation—send copies.
ref: 1924 December 1, “The Broadcaster: A Department that will Find what You Want: A Central Clearing House for All Your Business Wants”, in C. A. Musselman, editor, Automobile Trade Journal, volume XXIX, number 6, Philadelphia, Pa.: Chilton Company, […], →OCLC, page 618, column 2:
glosses: Senses relating to a three-dimensional object or space.
A compartment or receptacle for receiving items.
A numbered receptacle at a newspaper office for anonymous replies to advertisements; see also box number.
examples: text: There is yet a better manner of arranging the boxes; and for which invention we are indebted to Andrea Sighizzi, the ſcholar of [Francesco] Brizio and Dentone; […] The plan he followed was, that the boxes, according as they were to be removed from the ſtage towards the bottom of the theatre, ſhould continue gradually riſing by ſome inches one above the other, and gradually receding to the ſides by ſome inches; by which means, every box would have a more commodious view of the ſtage; […]
ref: 1767, [Francesco] Algarotti, “On the Structure of Theatres”, in An Essay on the Opera Written in Italian, London: Printed for L. Davis and C. Reymers, →OCLC, pages 101–102:
text: One night he proposed a champagne supper, to which, he said he had invited a friend of his. I consented without hesitation, and soon after we proceeded to an eating house and seating ourselves in a private box, ordered supper.
ref: 1861, E. J. Guerin, Mountain Charley, page 18:
glosses: Senses relating to a three-dimensional object or space.
A compartment to sit inside in an auditorium, courtroom, theatre, or other building.
synonyms: loge
examples: text: Next in importance to the Dvornik comes the coachman of a Russian household. He is usually chosen for his fatness and the length of his beard. These seem curious reasons for choosing a coachman in a country where coach-boxes are smaller than anywhere else in the world; but whereas the average breadth of a Russian coach-box is scarcely more than twelve inches at the outside, the average breadth of a Russian coachman is a very different affair.
ref: 1868 April 18, “Among Russian Peasantry”, in Charles Dickens, editor, All the Year Round. A Weekly Journal. [...] With which is Incorporated Household Words, volume XIX, number 469, London: Published at No. 26, Wellington Street; and by Messrs. Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, page 440, column 1:
glosses: Senses relating to a three-dimensional object or space.
The driver’s seat on a horse-drawn coach.
synonyms: box seat
examples: text: sentry-box
text: [M]y uncle Toby […] treated himſelf with a handſome ſentry-box, to ſtand at the corner of the bowling-green, betwixt which point and the foot of the glacis, there was left a little kind of eſplanade for him and the corporal to confer and hold councils of war upon. / —The ſentry-box was in caſe of rain.
ref: 1762, [Laurence Sterne], chapter XXII, in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume VI, London: […] T. Becket and P. A. Dehondt, […], →OCLC, page 95:
glosses: Senses relating to a three-dimensional object or space.
A small rectangular shelter.
synonyms: shelter
booth
examples: text: He was a fine-looking middle-aged man, and his voice said at once that he expected to be obeyed. He was very friendly and polite to John, and after giving us a slight look, he called a groom to take us to our boxes, and invited John to take some refreshment.
ref: [1877], Anna Sewell, “Earlshall”, in Black Beauty: […], London: Jarrold and Sons, […], →OCLC, part II, page 101:
glosses: Senses relating to a three-dimensional object or space.
Ellipsis of horsebox (“container for transporting horses”).
examples: text: They were capable of climbing most hills in second low but for this exercise we decided to go for the bottom of the box, just to be sure.
ref: 2000, Bob Foster, Birdum or Bust!, Henley Beach, SA: Seaview Press, page 181:
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: Senses relating to a three-dimensional object or space.
Ellipsis of gearbox.
examples: text: Thinkin' like Roddy, got a stick in the box (Roddy)
Hide in another car, we just blickin' the opps (Bah)
ref: 2023 May 24, “Bounce”, PGF Nuk (lyrics):
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: Senses relating to a three-dimensional object or space.
Ellipsis of stashbox.
synonyms: stizzy
examples: text: Sparks from the derailed bogie of the train were first noticed by the signalman at Slough West box, who immediately sent to Slough Middle box the "Stop and Examine" signal, followed at once by "Obstruction Danger" when he realised that the coach was derailed.
ref: 1960 March, “Talking of Trains: The Slough derailment”, in Trains Illustrated, page 132:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: Senses relating to a three-dimensional object or space.
Ellipsis of signal box.
examples: text: I’m really in a box now.
text: He was going straight for the jugular. "Joe, this didn't make me afraid. I've done rescues before." / "Then you'll have no problem saying yes." / Her eyes narrowed. He was putting her in a box and doing it deliberately. There were times when his kind of leadership made her cringe.
ref: 2000, Dee Henderson, chapter 5, in True Devotion (Uncommon Heroes; book 1), Sisters, Or.: Palisades, →ISBN; republished Carol Stream, Ill.: Tyndale House Publishers, 2005, →ISBN, page 67:
glosses: Senses relating to a three-dimensional object or space.
A predicament or trap.
examples: example
glosses: Senses relating to a three-dimensional object or space.
A prison cell.
examples: text: I am in what you call 'the box' confined to a 'special' housing unit for punishment because I stabbed some guys who call they self godly and are always beaten up on gays and she males because they hate homosexuals.
ref: 1987 August 15, Alberto Rodriguez, “What's Your Opinion, Brothers & Sisters?”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 5, page 4:
text: He is fearless and contemptuous, apparently able to withstand any discipline—including nights “in the box” […]
ref: 2003, Elayne Rapping, Law and Justice as Seen on TV, page 83:
text: He had been in disciplinary confinement (“the box”)—punishment reserved for serious prison offenses—for 14 months.
ref: 2009, Megan McLemore, Barred from Treatment:
text: […] he explained, “you can go to the box. So, I got a ticket for refusing an order and I went to the box in that situation. […]
ref: 2020, Erin Hatton, Coerced: Work Under Threat of Punishment, page 89:
glosses: Senses relating to a three-dimensional object or space.
A prison cell.
A cell used for solitary confinement.
synonyms: hole
examples: text: Prior to the explosion we spoke about what would happen if he [Lance-Corporal James Simpson] died and came back in a box and what music he would want at his funeral.
ref: 2010 March 6, Pauline Rogers (interviewee), “Soldier who lost both legs in Afghanistan wants to return to frontline”, in The Telegraph, London, archived from the original on 24 May 2010:
glosses: Senses relating to a three-dimensional object or space.
A coffin.
examples: text: Mr. Wormwood switched on the television. The screen lit up. The programme blared. Mr Wormwood glared at Matilda. She hadn't moved. She had somehow trained herself by now to block her ears to the ghastly sound of the dreaded box. She kept right on reading, and for some reason this infuriated the father.
ref: 1988, Roald Dahl, “The Ghost”, in Matilda, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN; republished as “The Ghost”, in Matilda, New York, N.Y.: Puffin Books, 2007, →ISBN:
glosses: Senses relating to a three-dimensional object or space.
The television.
synonyms: word: telly
word: tube
word: TV
qualifier: preceded by the
examples: text: Without warning, he withdrew his finger and drove his tongue inside her creamy, hot box. She gave a sharp intake of breath.
ref: 2015 March, Allison Hobbs, Karen E. Quinones Miller, “Cheryl”, in Hittin’ It Out the Park: A Novel (Zane Presents), trade paperback edition, Largo, Md.: Strebor Books, →ISBN, page 27:
glosses: Senses relating to a three-dimensional object or space.
The vagina.
synonyms: word: axe wound
word: bearded clam
word: beaver
word: berk
word: bonne bouche
word: box
word: bun
word: bush
word: cavern
word: clunge
word: coin slot
word: cooch
word: coochie
word: cookie
word: cooter
word: cooze
word: crack
word: crevice
word: cunny
word: cunt
word: fanny
word: fish lips
word: foo-foo
word: front bottom
word: front bum
word: front hole
word: gash
word: ginch
word: girl
word: Grand Canyon
word: honeypot
word: hoo-ha
word: innie
word: juice box
word: kebab
word: kitty
word: la-la
word: love box
word: love tunnel
word: minge
word: minnie
word: monosyllable
word: moocha
word: muff
word: muffin
word: nonny
word: pee-pee
word: penis fly trap
word: pink
word: pink bits
word: poontang
word: pump
word: punani
word: pussy
word: quim
word: sausage wallet
word: sheath
word: slit
word: snapper
word: snatch
word: squish mitten
word: stench trench
word: strange
word: sugar walls
word: tuppence
word: trap
word: twat
word: twinkle
word: vadge
word: vag
word: vagina
word: vaginer
word: va-jay-jay
word: vertical smile
word: Virginia
word: vulva
word: wee-wee
word: whisker biscuit
word: wizard's sleeve
examples: text: a UNIX box
text: i can't seem to find any how-to regarding connecting a terminal to a linux boxen via parallel port …
ref: 1996 January 15, Siu Ha Vivian Chu, “DEC vt320 → linux boxen”, in comp.os.linux.networking (Usenet), message-ID <4dceos$gg7@morgoth.sfu.ca>:
text: Furthermore, it is necessary that all four Linux boxen have the same development environment […]
ref: 2002 September 8, Gregory Seidman, “serving debian to redhat boxen”, in muc.lists.debian.user (Usenet), message-ID <20020908205128.GA19944@cs.brown.edu>:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Senses relating to a three-dimensional object or space.
A computer, or the case in which it is housed.
synonyms: word: computer
word: machine
word: 'puter
word: box
word: calculator
word: computer
word: electronic brain
word: electronic computer
word: machine
word: number cruncher
word: thinking machine
examples: text: Joshua Newman, until last month a co-owner of CrossFit NYC, which says it is the world's largest box, recalled a member in the gym's early days who was nicknamed "Welcoming Committee."
ref: 2014 August 8, Courtney Rubin, “CrossFit Flirting: Talk Burpee to Me”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 16 Jun 2022:
text: Ter Kuile says people will sometimes bring their kids to their CrossFit "box," which is CrossFit for "gym."
ref: 2017 June 24, Julie Beck, “How CrossFit Acts Like a Religion”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 25 Dec 2022:
text: Even CrossFitters disagree on how to read the clowns; some box owners join outsider critics in condemning them as dangerous and distance themselves from boxes that still display them.
ref: 2018 June 21, Mark Hay, “Some CrossFit Gyms Feature Pictures of These Puking, Bleeding Clowns”, in VICE, archived from the original on 30 Sep 2022:
text: This is really sad, but I'd go to this amazing CrossFit box called Tio with barbells outside on the edge of a park so you can enjoy the sunshine. I'd go with friends, we'd play loud music, lift weights and get tanned.
ref: 2021 August 22, Michael Segalov, quoting Joel Dommett, “Sunday with Joel Dommett: ‘In bed until 10am if I'm feeling fruity'”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 29 Nov 2022:
glosses: Senses relating to a three-dimensional object or space.
A gym dedicated to the CrossFit exercise program.
examples: text: His [Rory Bremner's] brilliant story about having his box turned inside out by a delivery from Jeff Thomson – he contrasts it with Andrew Flintoff being hit in the box by Cardigan Connor. [David] Lloyd came up to Flintoff, and said, "Cardigan Connor? You consider it an honour to be hit by Cardigan. Do you remember Jeff Thomson? I was hit amidships by him, and it was not a glancing blow. I was wearing one of those old boxes – you know, the pink ones, like a soap dish. It ended up that everything that was supposed to be inside the box had come outside the box – through the air holes!"
ref: 2011, John Duncan, “Rory Bremner”, in Cricket Wonderful Cricket, London: John Blake Publishing, →ISBN:
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Senses relating to a three-dimensional object or space.
A hard protector for the genitals worn inside the underpants by a batsman or close fielder.
synonyms: word: cup
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Senses relating to a three-dimensional object or space.
Synonym of gully (“a certain fielding position”).
synonyms: word: gully
extra: a certain fielding position
examples: text: In common axles, the wheel is prevented from coming off by a pin, called the linch pin, passing through the end of the axletree arm, the name of the part that the wheel turns upon; but as many serious accidents have happened through the linch pin failing and the wheel coming off, an improved method of securing the latter is now practised, by means of a box called the axletree box, which is contrived to answer the double purpose of keeping on the wheel, and to hold oil, grease, or some lubricating substance for lessening the friction.
ref: 1844, Thomas Webster, assisted by the late Mrs. [William] Parkes, “[Book XXIII. Carriages.] Chap. VI. Various Details Respecting the Parts of a Carriage.”, in An Encyclopædia of Domestic Economy: […], London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, […], →OCLC, paragraph 6684, page 1124:
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Senses relating to a three-dimensional object or space.
A cylindrical casing around the axle of a wheel, a bearing, a gland, etc.
examples: text: In electric fencing, foil and saber fencers wear lames, which are thin outer jackets that cover their target areas. Lames are made from fabric that conducts electricity. When a fencer touches an opponent's lame with his or her blade, an electronic signal is sent to the scoring box. A colored light goes on to signal a touch. […] In épée, the whole body is the target, so épée fencers do not need to wear lames. A signal is sent to the scoring box from the épée any time a touch is made.
ref: 2009, Suzanne Slade, “Electric Fencing: Get Hooked Up”, in Fencing for Fun!, Mankato, Minn.: Compass Point Books, →ISBN, pages 30–31:
topics: fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: Senses relating to a three-dimensional object or space.
A device used in electric fencing to detect whether a weapon has struck an opponent, which connects to a fencer's weapon by a spool and body wire. It uses lights and sound to notify a hit, with different coloured lights for on target and off target hits.
examples: text: “I dare say the sheriff, or the mayor and corporation, or some of those sort of people, would give him money enough, for the use of it, to run him up a mighty pretty neat little box somewhere near Richmond.”
ref: 1782, Frances Burney, Cecilia, III.vi.9:
text: Suburban villas, highway-ſide retreats, / That dread th' encroachment of our growing ſtreets, / Tight boxes, neatly ſaſh'd, and in a blaze / With all a July ſun's collected rays, / Delight the citizen, who gaſping there, / Breathes clouds of duſt and calls it country air.
ref: 1782, William Cowper, “Retirement”, in Poems, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC, page 282:
text: What can a man know of a country or its people, who, merely passes through the former in a stage coach? […] Such were the arguments by which I induced myself to undertake a pedestrian trip to join my friend at his shooting-box, some hundred and fifty miles from Carlisle, where I had arrived from London; business compelling me to take that route.
ref: [1840?], [John Mackay] Wilson, “The Runaway”, in Wilson’s Historical, Traditionary, and Imaginative Tales of the Borders, and of Scotland: […], volume VI, number 273, Manchester: Published by James Ainsworth, […]; London: E. T. Brain & Co., […]; New York, N.Y.: R. T. Shannon, →OCLC, page 97:
glosses: Senses relating to a three-dimensional object or space.
A small country house.
examples: text: So Tea Cake took the guitar and played himself. He was glad of the chance because he hadn't had his hand on a box since he put his in the pawn shop to get some money to hire a car for Janie soon after he met her.
ref: 1937, Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Amistad, published 2013, page 123:
glosses: Senses relating to a three-dimensional object or space.
A stringed instrument with a soundbox, especially a guitar.
glosses: Senses relating to a three-dimensional object or space.
Short for squeeze box (“accordion or concertina”)
examples: text: Place a tick in the box.
text: This text would stand out better if we put it in a coloured box.
text: [G]raphic novelists must think "inside the box" in some significant ways. Like comic books, each page of a graphic novel usually displays from one to nine outlined boxes with pictures and words that tell a story. Another tradition places the descriptions of events or scenes in smaller rectangles set within panels. These rectangles are called narrative boxes. […] Use narrative boxes with words such as "Far away" or "Meanwhile" to tell readers when you are moving the action somewhere else.
ref: 2009, Natalie M[yra] Rosinsky, “Setting the Scene”, in Write Your Own Graphic Novel, Mankato, Minn.: Compass Point Books, →ISBN, page 16:
glosses: Senses relating to a two-dimensional object or space
A rectangle: an oblong or a square.
examples: text: As anyone who has ever maintained a baseball or softball diamond would agree, the pitcher's mound and batter's box present a special challenge. […] Batters dig in at the plate, disturbing the soil and making a hole that base runners must slide across when they approach the plate. To withstand the special stresses on these areas, only clay-based soils provide the necessary soil strength. […] [S]ome manufacturers have introduced clay-based soil products for pitcher's mounds and batter's boxes. These products include additives with special binding properties and are specifically designed to resist the stresses applied by the cleats of pitchers and batters.
ref: 2003, Jim Puhalla, Jeff Krans, Mike Goatley, “Soil”, in Baseball and Softball Fields: Design, Construction, Renovation, and Maintenance, Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, part I (Design and Construction), section 3.3c, page 64:
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Senses relating to a two-dimensional object or space
The rectangle in which the batter stands.
examples: text: Similar considerations apply in the case of tRNA genes, where the internal promoter is split into two functional domains (box A and box B) which must be a minimum distance apart[…]. The first 11 bp of the internal control region in the Xenopus 5S gene are structurally and functionally homologous to the box A element of tRNA gene promoters, […]
ref: 1990, David De Pomerai, “Gene Organisation and Control”, in From Gene to Animal: An Introduction to the Molecular Biology of Animal Development, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, section 1.3 (Transcriptional Control), page 11:
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Senses relating to a two-dimensional object or space
One of two specific regions in a promoter.
examples: text: Your hands rest on the bottom plane of the box, relaxed and open; forearms are parallel with the ground and elbows close to your body. Balls thrown from your right hand are aimed at the point to the left of center of the top of the box. When you hit this point the ball will land in your left hand. Balls thrown from your left hand are aimed at the point to the right of center of the top of the box.
ref: 2010 April, Michael J. Gelb, 5 Keys to High Performance: Juggle Your Way to Success, [Prince Frederick, Md.]: Gildan Digital, →ISBN, part III (The Art of Juggling: Expanding Your Influence with Spheres):
topics: arts
hobbies
juggling
lifestyle
performing-arts
sports
glosses: Senses relating to a two-dimensional object or space
A pattern usually performed with three balls where the movements of the balls make a boxlike shape.
examples: text: [page 12] Field players wear shoes with short spikes, called cleats, on the soles. Box players wear court shoes, which have grooved rubber soles. […] [page 30] Field goalies have larger nets to protect than goalies in box lacrosse have. Box goalies wear more pads.
ref: 2003, John Crossingham, “The Essentials” and “Goaltending”, in Bobbie Kalman, editor, Lacrosse in Action (Sports in Action), New York, N.Y.; St. Catharines, Ont.: Crabtree Publishing Company, →ISBN, pages 12 and 30:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lacrosse
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Senses relating to a two-dimensional object or space
Ellipsis of box lacrosse (“indoor form of lacrosse”).
examples: text: Poised link-up play between [Michael] Essien and [Frank] Lampard set the Ghanaian midfielder free soon after but his left-footed shot from outside the box was too weak.
ref: 2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 – 0 Bolton”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 16 Dec 2017:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: Senses relating to a two-dimensional object or space
The penalty area.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Senses relating to a two-dimensional object or space
A diamond-shaped flying formation consisting of four aircraft.
examples: text: “Okay Lewis, so box this lap, box, box”
ref: 2020 February 7, Greg Stuart, “A beginner’s guide to… F1 slang”, in F1:
text: When a driver is told to 'box, box', they're being instructed to make a pitstop. This is because 'box' sounds more distinct than 'pit' over the team radio, so there's less chance of confusion leading to an error. The word itself refers to the painted box outside a team's garage where pit stops take place, although some argue that it hails from 'boxenstopp', which is German for 'pit stop'.
ref: 2024 April 3, Joe Holding, Rebecca Braybrook, “What do DRS, black and white flag, porpoising and more mean? F1 terms explained”, in Autosport:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports
glosses: Senses relating to a two-dimensional object or space
An area in the pit where the car is repaired and refueled.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
synonyms: hyperrectangle
orthotope
glosses: A rectangular object in any number of dimensions.
Hyponyms: sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: airbox
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: apple-box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: archive box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: ballot box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: bandbox
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: bento box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: bitty box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: black box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: blue box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: box tent
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: brain box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: CAAT box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: cable box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: cacher box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: call box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: cambox
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: cardboard box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: cashbox
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: check box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: Chinese boxes
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: Christmas box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: cigar-box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: cigar box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: cigar-box guitar
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: collecting box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: combo box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: coolbox
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: decade box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: dialog box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: Dirichlet's box principle
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: dogbox
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: drink box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: dropbox
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: firebox
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: fishing box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: front box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: fusebox
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: fuzz box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: Galton box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: gate box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: GC box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: gearbox
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: glory box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: glove box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: Goldberg-Hogness box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: grass box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: grow box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: hatbox
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: haybox
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: hellbox
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: herb box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: Hogness box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: homeobox
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: homoeobox
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: horse box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: horsebox
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: hotbox
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: hot box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: hunting box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: icebox
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: idiot box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: inbox
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: jewel box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: journal box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: juice box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: jump box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: jury box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: letterbox
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: light box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: list box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: lockbox
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: loose box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: loosebox
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: love box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: lunch box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: magic box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: marmalade box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: matchbox
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: miter box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: mitre box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: money box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: mud box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: musical box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: mystery box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: nest box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: nesting box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: oilbox
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: omnibus box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: outbox
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: packing box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: paint box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: pay box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: pegbox
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: peg-box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: penalty box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: pepperbox
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: phone box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: pillar box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: pillbox
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: playbox
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: PO box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: police box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: poor box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: postbox
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: power box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: presentation box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: press box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: Pribnow-Schaller box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: property box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: puff box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: rag-box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: rattlebox
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: recipe box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: red box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: safe-deposit box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: safety-deposit box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: saltbox
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: sandbox
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: sandwich box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: saucebox
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: search box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: seatbox
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: seedbox
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: sentry box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: set-top box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: shaving box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: shit box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: shoebox
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: shooting box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: shot box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: side box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: signal box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: six-yard box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: ski box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: Skinner box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: skybox
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: slushbox
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: smokebox
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: snow box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: snuffbox
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: soapbox
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: sound box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: spitbox
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: spring-box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: spurious box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: squawkbox
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: squawk box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: squeezebox
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: stage box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: strongbox
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: stuffing box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: suggestion box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: swear box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: sweatbox
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: swell box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: swill-box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: telephone box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: text box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: tick box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: tinder box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: toolbox
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: tuck box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: tumbling box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: upper box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: vanity box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: versing box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: wagon box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: wine box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: witness box
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: workbox
sense: Hyponyms of box (noun, etymology 1)
word: yogibogeybox
Derived terms: 18-yard box
About box
a few spanners short of a tool box
agony box
airbox
air-box
apple box
apple-box
Armalite and the ballot box
ask box
Aussie box
axle box
axlebox
axle-box
baby box
backbox
bag-in-box
bait box
Balaam box
balikbayan box
banana box
bandbox
bat box
bathing box
batter's box
beach box
beatbox
bedbox
beige box
be in a box
be in the same box
be in the wrong box
bellbox
bidding box
big-box
big box
big-box store
bike box
bimble box
bio box
birdbox
black-box function
black box insurance
black-box testing
black box warning
blind box
block the box
blotto box
boom box
box and cox
box and lock
box and needle
box and whisker plot
box and whiskers plot
box-anneal
box-annealing
box art
box-back
boxball
box-barrage
box-beam
box bed
box-bed
box bike
box-bill
boxboard
box-board
box boy
box braid
box braids
box breathing
box-calf
box calf
box camera
box-canyon
box canyon
box car
box-car
boxcar
box-cart
box-checker
box checker
box-chronometer
box-churn
box-cloth
box-club
box coat
box-coil
box-colored
box-coloured
box-counting dimension
box-coupling
box crab
boxcutter
box-cutter
box cutter
box-day
box-desk
box-drain
box-drawing character
box-elder
box elder maple
boxen
box end wrench
boxer
box-feeding
box file
boxfish
box-fitter
box-food
box frame
box-fresh
boxful
box gable
box girder
box-grain
box-groove
box guitar
box-hand
box Harry
box-hat
box-head
boxhead
box hockey
boxholder
box-hook
box-house
box house
boxicity
box iron
box-iron
box jelly
box jellyfish
box joint
box junction
boxkeeper
box-keeperess
box-key
box kick
box kite
box lacrosse
boxless
box-letter
box-level
box level
box-like
boxlike
boxload
box-lobby
boxlock
box-loom
box lunch
box lyre
box magazine
boxmaker
boxmaking
box-man
box man
boxman
box-master
box-mattress
box meal
box-meat
box-metal
box model
box money
box-motion
box nasty
box no.
box number
box-nut
box of birds
box of chocolates
box-office
box office
box-office bomb
box of fluffies
box of fluffy ducks
box of ivories
box of matches
box of tricks
boxology
box operator
box-ottoman
boxout
box-oyster
box party
box-plan
box pleat
box-pleated
box-pleating
box plot
box poison
box profits
box-rent
boxroom
box room
box score
box-sealing tape
box seat
box set
box-shaped
box-shutter
box-slater
box-sleigh
box social
box spanner
box split
box spread
box-spring
box spring
box-square
box squat
box-stair
box-staircase
box stall
box-standard
box standard
box-staple
box step
box stitch
box-stone
box store
box-strap
box-string
box supper
box-swivel
box-tail
box tail
box-tappet
box-tenon
box the gnat
box-ticking
box-timbering
box-to-box midfielder
box-toe
box-tool
boxtop
box-tortoise
box-trap
box tree moth
box-tricycle
box truck
box turtle
box-turtle
box-valve
box van
box wagon
boxwalker
boxwalla
boxwallah
box-wallah
box wine
boxwise
box wrench
box-wrench
boxy
box zither
brainbox
brain-box
breadbox
bread box
brown box
brown box crab
busy box
butter-box
cakebox
call-box
cannon box
cardboard-box
Caribbean box jellyfish
cartridge-box
cartridge box
cash-box
cashbox
cash box
cat box
chad box
chalk box
charity box
chatbox
chatterbox
checkbox
cheesebox
cheese box
cheese-box
Chinese box
chocolate box
chocolate-box
Christmas box
Christmas Eve box
chumbox
cigar box guitar
cigar box guitarist
clack box
clack-box
coach box
coachbox
coal-box
coalbox
coin-box
coin box
coinbox
cold meat box
collection box
color-box
colour-box
combat box
comb-box
combobox
come from a Cracker Jack box
commentary box
confession box
convergence box
cooking box
coolbox
cool box
Cornell box
country box
coupling-box
court poor box
cox box
cracker-box
crackerbox
crash box
cryobox
databox
dead-letter box
deathbox
deck box
deed-box
despatch box
dialogue box
dice-box
dicebox
dice box
dig box
Digi-box
digital converter box
dirt-box
dispatch box
dispatch-box
distribution box
ditty box
ditty-box
doc-in-a-box
dodgy box
dogbox
dog-box
dragbox
dredge-box
dredging-box
dredging box
dressing-box
dressing-up box
driving-box
drop-box
dropbox
drop box
dumb as a box of rocks
dumber than a box of rocks
dustbox
dust-box
dust box
econobox
egg-box
eggbox
embox
endbox
error box
euboxic
executive box
farebox
fare box
fart box
F-box
feedbox
feed-box
feeding-box
feelie box
feely box
fire-box
firebox
fire box
first-aid box
floor box
flower box
flush-box
fly-box
fly box
footbox
fox in the box
free box
fudge box
funbox
funnel box
fuse box
fusebox
fuzz box
gearbox
get one's shine box
giftbox
glory-box
glovebox
goalbox
goggle-box
goggle box
gold box
grab box
grassbox
gray-box testing
green box
grey-box testing
grockle box
grockle-box
groovebox
group box
happy as a box of birds
hatbox
haybox
headbox
heck-box
heck box
heijunka box
hellbox
hit-box
hitbox
homeobox
honesty box
honor box
honour box
Horrocks box
horse-box
horsebox
hospitality box
hotbox
hug box
hugbox
hug-box
hum-box
hyperbox
icebox
ICE box
ice box
imbox
in-a-box
in a box
inbox
in-box
infinity box
infobox
inside the box
jackbox
jack-in-the-box
jambox
jaw-box
jawbox
jazz box
jewel-box
jewelry box
jockey box
juke box
jukebox
junction box
junkbox
karaoke box
kill box
knife-box
knock box
knock out of the box
knowledge-box
letter box
letterbox
letter-box
lick-box
life is like a box of chocolates
lightbox
lipobox
litter box
live box
lobster box
lockbox
loose-box
lootbox
loot box
luckbox
lunch-box
lunchbox
mad as a box of frogs
magenta box
mail box
mail-box
mailbox
Mandelbox
matchbox
mauve box
meat box
memory box
middlebox
milkbox
minibox
ministerial box
missionary-box
mite box
mold box
moneybox
moss-box
moving box
mult box
multi-box
multi box
munchie box
munchy box
muscle-box
music-box
music box
nest-box
newsbox
not the sharpest crayon in the box
not the sharpest pencil in the box
not the sharpest tool in the box
off one's box
olive box
omnibox
one out of the box
opaque box
open box
open Pandora's box
orange box
out-box
out-of-box experience
out of one's box
out-of-the-box
out of the box
outside the box
paddle box
paddlebox
paddle-box
paintbox
Pandora's box
pass box
patch box
patch-box
pattern box
paybox
P-box
p-box
pegbox
peg-box
pencil box
pepperbox
permutation box
phonebox
pick to box
pick-to-box
picture box
pillar-box
pillar-box red
pill-box
pillow box
pine box
pizza box
planter box
play-box
plumber's box
plyo box
plyometric box
poison at the box office
poke box
postal box
post-box
post-office box
potato-box
pounce-box
pouncet-box
powder-box
powder box
prattle-box
prattlebox
press-box
Pribnow box
private box
probability box
project box
prompt-box
prompter's box
puff-box
purple box
put someone in a box
puzzle box
rainbow box
rasabox
rattlebox
resistance-box
resistance box
resonance box
rhizobox
rice box
RICE box
rip box
roofbox
rose box
safe as a kitten in a box
safebox
safe deposit box
saltbox
salt box
salt-box
sandbox
sand box
saucebox
savings-box
S-box
scent-box
Schumer box
scorebox
scrapbox
screw box
seedbox
seed-box
sell against the box
service box
set top box
shadow box
shatter box
shatterbox
shine box
shitbox
shoe-box
shoe box
shoebox
shoutbox
show box
show-box
shruti box
shut the box
shuttle box
shuttle-box
side-box
sidebox
silver box
skybox
slip box
sluice box
sluice-box
slushbox
smoke-box
smokebox
snack box
snake-in-the-box problem
sneakbox
sneeze-box
snotbox
snuff-box
snuff box
snuff box sea bean
soapbox
soap-box
soap box
softbox
soundbox
speak-box
spicebox
spice-box
spider box
spinbox
spitbox
spit box
spitting box
spring-box
squawk-box
squawk box
squeeze box
squeezebox
sruti box
startbox
stompbox
strongbox
strum box
stuffing-box
stuff the ballot box
subscription box
sugar-box
swap box
sweat-box
sweatbox
sweat box
sweetbox
switchbox
switch box
tacklebox
tackle box
talk box
tar-box
TATA box
T-box
teabox
tee-box
tee box
teebox
tell-box
textbox
the box they're going to bury it in
thermobox
thrift-box
throwbox
thunder box
thunderbox
thunder-box
tick all the boxes
tick a lot of boxes
tickey-box
tickey box
ticky-box
ticky box
timebox
time box
Time Unit Box System
tinder-box
tinderbox
tobacco-box
toby box
toe box
toolbox
topbox
top-box
touchbox
touch-box
toybox
traffic signal box
trashbox
tuckerbox
tucker-box
tucker box
tumbling-box
unbox
urine box
userbox
vanity-box
vaulting box
veg box
vegetable box
violet box
voicebox
voice box
voice-box
wallbox
watch-box
watchbox
water box
weather box
weather-box
weigh-box
wheelbox
white-box testing
whole box and dice
whole box of tricks
window box
window-box
winebox
witness-box
wog box
wog-box
woodbox
word box
workbox
work-box
writing-box
Yankee cheese-box
yellow box
Yerkes discrimination box
yogibogeybox
zombie box
zoom box
δ-box
Related terms: english: empty box displayed by some computer systems in place of a character not supported by available fonts
translation: empty box displayed by some computer systems in place of a character not supported by available fonts
word: tofu