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Senses relating to a three-dimensional object or space.
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Senses relating to a two-dimensional object or space
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To place inside a box; to pack in one or more boxes.
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Usually followed by in: to surround and enclose in a way that restricts movement; to corner, to hem in.
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To mix two containers of paint of similar colour to ensure that the color is identical.
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To make an incision or hole in (a tree) for the purpose of procuring the sap.
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To enclose with boarding, lathing, etc., so as to conceal (for example, pipes) or to bring to a required form.
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To furnish (for example, the axle of a wheel) with a box.
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To enclose (images, text, etc.) in a box.
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To place a value of a primitive type into a corresponding object.
Examples of box in a Sentence
Her jewelry box was tiny and wooden.
He drew a box around a large area.
In the box was a small, simple necklace of a bronze chain and faded bronze coin.
In addition to the bones themselves, the box contained a ripped plaid flannel shirt, and nestled at the bottom, dirty jeans, boots, and yellowed, soiled undershorts.
Fred examined the small bone and handed it back to Cynthia who gingerly dropped it into a small crystal jewelry box on her bureau.
Good operatives have a box full of tricks.
Perhaps the weekend respite from the jury box had lessened Fred's apprehension.
He placed the bone atop Cynthia's jewelry box on their bureau and climbed into bed.
A tow-haired boy happily dropped a Marlboro cigarette box in the churning water and then ran downstream to monitor its progress.
It's more of a cluttered box than a web.
A slip on which was printed, in raised letters, the word BOX was placed on the object, and the same experiment was tried with a great many articles, but she did not immediately comprehend that the label-name represented the thing.
Only those things he always kept with him remained in his room; a small box, a large canteen fitted with silver plate, two Turkish pistols and a saber--a present from his father who had brought it from the siege of Ochakov.
Princess Helene asked to see the portrait of the aunt's husband on the box lid.
But apparently the coachman's sympathy was not enough for Peter, and he turned on the box toward his master.
Carmen had removed the nest box only a few days ago.
Reaching her hand into the next nest box, a hen pecked it hard.
He put the ring back and closed the jewelry box, wishing he could shut off his memories as easily.
Again, when I hid the spool, she looked for it in a little box not more than an inch long; and she very soon gave up the search.
At one point, Tiger Woods got a dime for every box of Wheaties cereal with his photo on it, while the farmer was paid only a nickel for the wheat in that same box—and the farmer still made a profit.
I did read in my book about fox and box. fox can sit in the box.
One pivot of the polar axis is attached to the lower end of this box, and a strong hollow metal cone, terminating in the other pivot, forms the upper part of the polar axis.
One lady gave me a box of shells.
I found box of candy in Mr. Grave's pocket.
Whoever owned the soul, he or she was important to find their way to Death's jewelry box.
The short streak of light thus obtained moves with Mirror, .l 4,Stindd Boom Balance Weight, j/?/?j?jj/ Masonry Column Lamp Br.mide Paper_ On- Need,Le o 0 the movement of the boom over a second slit perpendicular to the first and made in the lid of a box containing clockwork driving a band of bromide paper.
Once more, however, a desperate attempt was made, by the fable of the "black box," to establish Monmouth's claims; and once more these claims were met by Charles's public declarations in the Gazette that he had never been married but to the queen.
The village has woollen mills, knitting mills, stereoscope, box, and collar and cuff factories and machine shops.
In the latter the artist provides a model in plaster from which the founder takes a mould within an encircling box.
When abroad he sought out varieties of grasses, trees, rice and olives for American experiment, and after his return from France received yearly for twenty-three years, from his old friend the superintendent of the Jardin des plantes, a box of seeds, which he distributed to public and private gardens throughout the United States.
An hour circle attached to E P and a declination circle attached to the box containing the mirror N, both of which can be read or set from E, complete the essentials of the instrument.
A flanged cast-iron box, strongly r i bbed and open on one side, forms the centre of the polar axis.
The declination axis passes through the two opposite sides of the central box.
The heated products of combustion from the burner B impinge on a metal box H, through which water is circulating, and then pass downwards and outwards through a spiral cooler which reduces them practically to the atmospheric temperature.
The Power Was Transmitted To The Paddles By Bevel Wheels F, G, Rotating A Spindle Passing Through A Stuffing Box In The Bottom Of The Calorimeter.
For charging in parallel a number of jars are collected in a box, and all the outside coatings are connected together metallically and all the inside coatings brought to one common terminal.
She twisted to stare at a large, wiry man with a whip-like body and a face that would scare Freddy Krueger standing in the middle of the apartment, her cat in one arm and the litter box in the other.
Jeremy Sams directs a cast with considerable box office clout.
A few days ago I received a little box of English violets from Lady Meath.
The furnace consisted of a flat, rectangular, firebrick box, packed with a layer of finely-powdered charcoal 2 in.
The Heroult cell consists of a square iron or steel box lined with carbon rammed and baked into a solid mass; at the bottom is a cast-iron plate connected with the negative pole of the dynamo, but the actual working cathode is undoubtedly the layer of already reduced and molten metal that lies in the bath.
The vessel may be a flower-pot sawn in two, so that the halves may be bound together when used, or it may be a flower-pot or box with a side slit which will admit the shoot; this vessel is to be filled compactly with suitable porous earth, the opening at the slit being stopped by pieces of slate or tile.
If roots have been placed in cellars, attention must be given to ventilation, which can be done by making a wooden box, say 6 by 8 in., to run from the ceiling of the cellar to the eaves of the building above.
Here the charging machine lifts one box at a time from its car, pushes it through the momentarily opened furnace door, and empties the metal upon the hearth of the furnace by inverting the box, which it then replaces on its car.
The badger-ward, who was usually attached to a bear-garden, kept his badger in a large box.
As soon as the dog succeeded in doing this the animals were parted, often by the attendants biting their tails, and the badger was again shut up in his box, which, at a signal from the time-keeper, was again opened.
The box should be of glass or stoneware or other non-conducting material.
It has been found, however, that very efficient condensers can be made with compressed air as dielectric. If a number of metal plates separated by small distance pieces are enclosed in an iron box which is pumped full of air to a pressure, say, of 10o lb.
Into the " rocker " and the " tom " the miner shovelled dirt, rocking it as he poured in water, catching the gold on riffles set across the bottom of his box; thus imitating in a wooden box the work of nature in the rivers.
Other trees are the juniper, willow, green ash, box elder, scrub oak, wild plum and wild cherry.
The electroscope is provided with a charging rod C. In a dry atmosphere sulphur or amber is an early perfect insulator, and hence if the air in the interior of the box is kept dry by calcium chloride, the electroscope will hold its charge for a long time.