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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.
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Any of various evergreen shrubs or trees of the genus Buxus, especially the common box, European box, or boxwood (Buxus sempervirens) which is often used for making hedges and topiary.
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The wood from a box tree: boxwood.
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A musical instrument, especially one made from boxwood.
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An evergreen tree of the genus Lophostemon (for example, the box scrub, Brisbane box, brush box, pink box, or Queensland box, Lophostemon confertus).
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Various species of Eucalyptus trees are popularly called various kinds of boxes, on the basis of the nature of their wood, bark, or appearance for example, the drooping (Eucalyptus bicolor), shiny-leaved (Eucalyptus tereticornis), black, or ironbark box trees.
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A blow with the fist.
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To strike with the fists; to punch.
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Leave this place before I box you!
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To fight against (a person) in a boxing match.
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To participate in boxing; to be a boxer.
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A Mediterranean food fish of the genus Boops, which is a variety of sea bream; a bogue or oxeye.
Examples of boxes in a Sentence
The boxes were gone.
Cans and boxes lined the shelves.
The lab was neatly cleared and boxes stood from floor to ceiling.
As he brought the boxes to the porch, she carried them inside.
So we're supposed to find boxes and do the packing, too?
All the boxes were gone.
Laundrying is extensively carried on as well as the manufacture of metal boxes, soap, oil and furniture, and there are numerous handsome residences.
The cardboard boxes can be recycled or added to your compost heap.
There were in the room a child's cot, two boxes, two armchairs, a table, a child's table, and the little chair on which Prince Andrew was sitting.
Guy Merchant, a pigeon expert, has been placing new nesting boxes in the town.
Amid boxes, lamps, and glassware of every description sat the old man, atop a trunk, snuggled between the two maiden ladies from Indiana.
Fred offered to go up to Duckett's Market for boxes and give up closet space to temporarily store the large pile.
Healthy lunches in boxes The major problem with lunch boxes is that they get terribly repetitive.
I did n't and spent about 15 minutes rummaging about in boxes looking for the Win XP CD case.
These boxes will contain a rubber stamp and visitorâs book.
The students were influenced by Medieval storage boxes called Pyxes, which were used to hold consecrated wafers.
Co-ordinated printed serviettes and cake boxes are available with baby's name and birthdate on.
They are always so shiny and new looking when you take them out of their boxes.
Each close-up shot of boxes on this page is from one section of one magazine room.
They all control the air solenoids differently to the road boxes so need big jetting changes to run.
You can open the same selector in both boxes and then append and delete selection criteria lines at will.
The new roommate will be moving all her boxes of things in on Sunday.
The next day saw the instructors teach the children the art of cone driving, including slaloms, boxes and circles.
You may wish to buy some microscope slide boxes to store permanent preparations which you have made or bought.
Back to Bedlam is available as a piano/vocal songbook, with guitar chord boxes, or in Guitar tabulature.
This coverage was further enhanced by having flown mid/high boxes and tall, narrow bass stacks.
Those two TV sets being turned on in the Executive Boxes really stoke up the caldron of, erm, silence.
By simply checking boxes you can create your own virtual storefront with Magellan's products!
In the early nineties breakbeat and loose jungle techno was filling his record boxes as he traveled the length and breadth oh the UK.
Packed into narrow boxes, about eight strings to a box they look very tempting.
Shadows for text annotation boxes are now translucent rather than solid black.
Comprising of 1 tray, 2 lidded trinket boxes, 2 vases / trinket pots.
I think we now have all the boxes unpacked in the boys rooms.
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So think about a New Millenium's resolution - place a subscription for one of our fruit and veg boxes to arrive weekly.
Long serving staff took their final tea break surrounded by boxes of chocolates and cakes donated by well-wishers.
This would typically be cardboard boxes, shrink wrap or pallets.
Carolyn and Carole planted some green yew (Taxus baccata) in these boxes.
There is a large trade in Tunbridge ware, which includes work-tables, boxes, toys, &c., made of hard woods, such as beech, sycamore, holly, and cherry, and inlaid with mosaic. Tunbridge Wells was incorporated in 1889, and is governed by a mayor, 8 aldermen and 24 councillors.
The phenomena of beats may be easily observed with two organpipes put slightly out of tune by placing the hand near the open end of one of them, with two musical strings on a resonant chest, or with two tuning-forks of the same pitch mounted on their resonance boxes, or held over a resonant cavity (such as a glass jar), one of the forks being put out of tune by loading one prong with a small lump of beeswax.
Of the makers of paper boxes, of shirts, collars and cuffs, of hosiery and knitting mill operatives, of glove-makers, silk mill operatives and book-binders they are more than half; so also of other textile workers, excluding wool and cotton mill operatives (these last the second largest group of women workers in manufactures), in which occupations males arc in a slight excess.
Plant parsley in pots or boxes to protect under glass in case very severe weather occurs.
The chief industry of Cambrai is the weaving of muslin (batiste) and other fine fabrics (see Cambric); wool-spinning and weaving, bleaching and dyeing, are carried on, as well as the manufacture of chicory, oil, soap, sausages and metal boxes.
What man but a philosopher would not be ashamed to see his furniture packed in a cart and going up country exposed to the light of heaven and the eyes of men, a beggarly account of empty boxes?
The count got out helped by the footmen, and, passing among men and women who were entering and the program sellers, they all three went along the corridor to the first row of boxes.
The pulsar parameters with their check boxes set will be fit for.
Moths found in Quaker Oats packs Boxes of Quaker Oats are pulled from the shelves because of the presence of moth pupae and larvae.
The poor man thought the transistor radio sets were barber 's boxes !
We suggest a simple raffia bow for the purse shaped boxes.
Holiday rentals with current availability in June July and August If you are buying a property and moving, plastic boxes can be helpful !