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box
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /b?ks/
- (General American) enPR: bäks, IPA(key): /b?ks/
- Rhymes: -?ks
Etymology 1
From Middle English box (“jar (usually cylindrical); type of container; strongbox for valuables or its contents; cupping glass for bloodletting; bone socket”), from Old English box (“box-tree; box, case”), from Proto-West Germanic *buhs? (“box tree; thing made from boxwood; box”), either from Latin buxus (“box tree; thing made from boxwood”), buxum (“box tree; boxwood”) (possibly from ????? (púxos, “box tree; boxwood”)); or from Late Latin buxis (“box”), Latin pyxis (“small box for medicines or toiletries”) (from Ancient Greek ????? (puxís, “box or tablet made of boxwood; box; cylinder”), from ????? (púxos) + -?? (-is, “suffix forming feminine nouns”)).
If the latter derivation is correct, the word is 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 hjulbössa (“wheel-box”).
The humorous plural form boxen is from box + -en, by analogy with oxen.
Noun
box (plural boxes or (nonstandard, computing, humorous) boxen)
- Senses relating to a three-dimensional object or space.
- A cuboid space; a cuboid container, often with a hinged lid.
- Synonyms: case, package
- A cuboid container and its contents; as much as fills such a container.
- Synonym: boxful
- A compartment (as a drawer) of an item of furniture used for storage, such as a cupboard, a shelf, etc.
- A compartment or receptacle for receiving items.
- A numbered receptacle at a newspaper office for anonymous replies to advertisements; see also box number.
- A numbered receptacle at a newspaper office for anonymous replies to advertisements; see also box number.
- A compartment to sit inside in an auditorium, courtroom, theatre, or other building.
- Synonym: loge
- The driver's seat on a horse-drawn coach.
- Synonym: box seat
- A small rectangular shelter.
- Synonyms: shelter, booth
- Short for horsebox (“container for transporting horses”).
- (rail transport) Short for signal box.
- (figuratively) A predicament or trap.
- (slang) A prison cell.
- 1951, William S. Burroughs, in Harris (ed.), Letters 1945–59, Penguin 2009, p. 98:
- While sojourning in the box I was greatly impressed by the kindness and decency of the Mexican people.
- (slang) A cell used for solitary confinement.
- Synonym: hole
- 2003, Elayne Rapping, Law and Justice as Seen on TV (page 83)
- He is fearless and contemptuous, apparently able to withstand any discipline—including nights “in the box” […]
- 2009, Megan McLemore, Barred from Treatment
- He had been in disciplinary confinement (“the box”)—punishment reserved for serious prison offenses—for 14 months.
- 2020, Erin Hatton, Coerced: Work Under Threat of Punishment (page 89)
- […] 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. […]
- 1951, William S. Burroughs, in Harris (ed.), Letters 1945–59, Penguin 2009, p. 98:
- (euphemistic) A coffin.
- (slang) Preceded by the: television.
- Synonyms: (Britain) telly, tube, TV
- (slang, vulgar) The vagina.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:vagina
- (computing, slang) A computer, or the case in which it is housed.
- Synonyms: computer, machine
- (cricket) A hard protector for the genitals worn inside the underpants by a batsman or close fielder.
- Synonym: (US) cup
- (cricket) Synonym of gully (“a certain fielding position”)
- (engineering) A cylindrical casing around the axle of a wheel, a bearing, a gland, etc.
- (fencing) 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.
- (dated) A small country house.
- 1782, Frances Burney, Cecilia, III.vi.9:
- “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.”
- 1782, Frances Burney, Cecilia, III.vi.9:
- A cuboid space; a cuboid container, often with a hinged lid.
- Senses relating to a two-dimensional object or space
- A rectangle: an oblong or a square.
- (baseball) The rectangle in which the batter stands.
- (genetics) One of two specific regions in a promoter.
- (juggling) A pattern usually performed with three balls where the movements of the balls make a boxlike shape.
- (lacrosse, informal) Short for box lacrosse (“indoor form of lacrosse”).
- (soccer) The penalty area.
- A rectangle: an oblong or a square.
Usage notes
- (computing): the humorous plural form boxen is occasionally used.
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
Translations
See also
- tofu (“empty box displayed by some computer systems in place of a character not supported by available fonts”)
Verb
box (third-person singular simple present boxes, present participle boxing, simple past and past participle boxed)
- (transitive) To place inside a box; to pack in one or more boxes.
- (transitive) Usually followed by in: to surround and enclose in a way that restricts movement; to corner, to hem in.
- (transitive) To mix two containers of paint of similar colour to ensure that the color is identical.
- (transitive, agriculture) To make an incision or hole in (a tree) for the purpose of procuring the sap.
- (transitive, architecture) To enclose with boarding, lathing, etc., so as to conceal (for example, pipes) or to bring to a required form.
- (transitive, engineering) To furnish (for example, the axle of a wheel) with a box.
- (transitive, graphic design, printing) To enclose (images, text, etc.) in a box.
- (transitive, object-oriented programming) To place a value of a primitive type into a corresponding object.
Synonyms
- (to place inside a box): box up, case, embox, encase, pack, pack up, package
Antonyms
- (place inside a box): unbox, uncase, unpack
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English box (“box tree; boxwood”), from Old English box (“box tree”), from Proto-West Germanic *buhs (“box tree; thing made from boxwood”), from Latin buxus (“box tree; thing made from boxwood”), buxum (“box tree; boxwood”), possibly from ????? (púxos, “box tree; boxwood”).
Noun
box (plural boxes)
- 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.
- The wood from a box tree: boxwood.
- (music, slang) A musical instrument, especially one made from boxwood.
- (Australia) An evergreen tree of the genus Lophostemon (for example, the box scrub, Brisbane box, brush box, pink box, or Queensland box, Lophostemon confertus).
- (Australia) 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.
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 3
From Middle English box (“a blow; a stroke with a weapon”); further origin uncertain. The following etymologies have been suggested:
- Possibly related to Proto-Germanic *boki-, whence Danish bask (“a blow; a stripe”), Danish baske (“to flap, move around, beat violently”), Middle Dutch boke (“a blow, a hit”), b?ken (“to slap, strike”) (modern Dutch beuken (“to slap”)), West Frisian bûtse, bûtsje (“to slap”), Saterland Frisian batsje (“to slap”), Low German betschen (“to slap, beat with a flat hand”), Middle High German buc (“a blow, a stroke”), bochen (“to slap, strike”).
- Possibly onomatopoeic.
- Possibly from box (“cuboid space; container”), perhaps referring to the shape of the fist.
- Possibly from Ancient Greek ??? (púx, “with clenched fist”), ????? (pugm?, “fist; boxing”).
The verb is from Middle English boxen (“to beat or whip (an animal)”), which is derived from the noun.
Noun
box (plural boxes)
- A blow with the fist.
Synonyms
- blow
- cuff
- punch
Translations
Verb
box (third-person singular simple present boxes, present participle boxing, simple past and past participle boxed)
- (transitive) To strike with the fists; to punch.
- (transitive, boxing) To fight against (a person) in a boxing match.
- (intransitive, boxing) To participate in boxing; to be a boxer.
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? French: boxer
- ? Galician: boxear
- ? German: boxen
- ? Portuguese: boxear, boxar
- ? Spanish: boxear
Translations
Etymology 4
From Latin b?x, from Ancient Greek ??? (bôx, “box (marine fish)”), from ???? (boûs, “ox”) + ?? (?ps, “eye, view”), a reference to the large size of the fish's eyes relative to its body.
Noun
box (plural boxes)
- (dated) A Mediterranean food fish of the genus Boops, which is a variety of sea bream; a bogue or oxeye.
Translations
References
Further reading
- box on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- box (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- box at OneLook Dictionary Search
Czech
Noun
box m
- boxing (the sport of boxing)
Declension
Related terms
- boxér
- boxérky
- boxovat
Further reading
- box in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
- box in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English box.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b?ks/
- Hyphenation: box
- Rhymes: -?ks
- Homophone: boks
Noun
box m (plural boxen, diminutive boxje n)
- speaker, loudspeaker
- Synonyms: luidspreker, speaker
- playpen
- compartment for livestock
French
Etymology
From English box. Doublet of boîte.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b?ks/
Noun
box m (plural box or boxes)
- stall (for a horse), loose box
- compartment, cubicle
- garage, lock-up (for a car)
Derived terms
- box des accusés
Further reading
- “box” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Noun
box f (plural box)
- Electronic equipment used for internet access (component of the digital subscriber line technology)
Hungarian
Noun
box
- Misspelling of boksz.
Icelandic
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?p?xs/
Noun
box n (genitive singular box, nominative plural box)
- box (container)
- Synonym: kassi
- (sports) boxing
- Synonym: hnefaleikar
Declension
Derived terms
- boxa
- boxhanski
- nestisbox
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English box.
Noun
box m (invariable)
- horsebox
- garage, lock-up (for a car)
- (motor racing) pit
- playpen
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ??? (b?x).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /bo?ks/, [bo?ks?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /boks/, [b?ks]
Noun
b?x m (genitive b?cis); third declension
- A kind of marine fish
Declension
Third-declension noun.
References
- box in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- box in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- box in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
Middle English
Alternative forms
- boxe
Etymology
From Old English box, from Proto-West Germanic *buhs?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?b?ks/
- Rhymes: -?ks
Noun
box (plural boxs)
- A cylindrical jar.
- A case, container or strongbox.
Descendants
- English: box (see there for further descendants)
- Scots: box
References
- “box, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *buhs.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /boks/
Noun
box m
- box
- box tree
Declension
Derived terms
- boxtr?ow
- byxen
- ?ewyrtbox
- s?pbox
- sealfbox
Descendants
- Middle English: box, boxe
- English: box (see there for further descendants)
- Scots: box
Portuguese
Alternative forms
- boxe (prescriptive)
Etymology
Borrowed from English box.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?b?ks/
Noun
box m (Brazil) or f (Portugal) (plural boxes) (proscribed)
- stall (for a horse)
- electronic equipment used for internet access (component of the digital subscriber line technology)
- (Brazil) the curtain or glass panes which separate the shower from the rest of the bathroom; shower stall
- 2003, Eileen G. de Paiva e Mello, Questão de Tempo, Thesaurus Editora, page 150:
- A mais velha procurava arrancar a cortina do box, pendurando-se nela!
- The oldest one wanted to pull off the stall curtain by hanging to it!
- A mais velha procurava arrancar a cortina do box, pendurando-se nela!
- 2003, Eileen G. de Paiva e Mello, Questão de Tempo, Thesaurus Editora, page 150:
Derived terms
- encostar às boxes
Romanian
Etymology 1
From French boxe.
Noun
box n (plural boxuri)
- (sports) boxing (the sport of)
- A kind of sword.
Synonyms
- (the sport): pugilat, pugilism, pugilistic?
Etymology 2
From French box.
Noun
box
- bovine leather
Etymology 3
Noun
box
- A breed of bulldog.
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from English box. Doublet of buje.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?bo?s/, [?bo??s]
Noun
box m (plural boxes)
- boxing (sport)
- (motor racing) pit
- (sports) box
Derived terms
- calle de boxes
- parada en boxes
- parar en boxes
Further reading
- “box” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
Swedish
Pronunciation
- Homophone: bocks
Noun
box c
- box, crate; a cuboid container
Declension
Derived terms
- frysbox
- kylbox
- postbox
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poke
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) enPR: p?k, IPA(key): /p??k/
- (US) enPR: p?k, IPA(key): /po?k/
- Rhymes: -??k
Etymology 1
Middle English, perhaps from Middle Dutch poken or Middle Low German poken (both from Proto-Germanic *puk-), which is probably imitative.
Verb
poke (third-person singular simple present pokes, present participle poking, simple past and past participle poked)
- To prod or jab with an object such as a finger or a stick. [from later 14th c.]
- To stir up a fire to remove ash or promote burning.
- (figuratively) To rummage; to feel or grope around. [from early 19th c.]
- (transitive, computing) To modify the value stored in (a memory address).
- (transitive) To put a poke (device to prevent leaping or breaking fences) on (an animal).
- (transitive) To thrust at with the horns; to gore.
- (transitive, informal, Internet) To notify (another user) of activity on social media or an instant messenger.
- (transitive) To thrust (something) in a particular direction such as the tongue.
- (transitive, slang, vulgar) To penetrate in sexual intercourse.
Synonyms
- (rummage): fumble, glaum, root; see also Thesaurus:feel around
- (penetrate in sexual intercourse): drill, nail, pound; see also Thesaurus:copulate with
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
poke (plural pokes)
- A prod, jab, or thrust.
- (US, slang) A lazy person; a dawdler.
- (US, slang) A stupid or uninteresting person.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Bartlett to this entry?)
- (US) A device to prevent an animal from leaping or breaking through fences, consisting of a yoke with a pole inserted, pointed forward.
- (computing) The storage of a value in a memory address, typically to modify the behaviour of a program or to cheat at a video game.
- (informal, Internet) A notification sent to get another user's attention on social media or an instant messenger.
- A poke bonnet.
Derived terms
- better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick
Etymology 2
From Middle English poke, from Anglo-Norman poke (whence pocket), from Frankish *poka. More at pocket.
Noun
poke (plural pokes)
- (now regional) A sack or bag. [from early 13th c.]
- c. 1599, William Shakespeare, As You Like It, act 2, scene 7:
- And then he drew a dial from his poke,
And, looking on it with lack-lustre eye,
Says very wisely, ‘It is ten o'clock…’
- And then he drew a dial from his poke,
- 1605, William Camden, Remaines Concerning Brittaine, 1629 edition, Proverbes, page 276:
- When the Pig is proffered, hold vp the poke.
- 1627, Michael Drayton, Minor Poems of Michael Drayton, 1907 edition, poem Nimphidia:
- And suddainly vntyes the Poke,
Which out of it sent such a smoke,
As ready was them all to choke,
So greeuous was the pother […]
- And suddainly vntyes the Poke,
- 1814, September 4, The Examiner, volume 13, number 349, article French Fashions, page 573:
- … and as to shape, a nightmare has as much. Under the poke and the muff-box, the face sometimes entirely disappears …
- 1946, Mezz Mezzrow and Bernard Wolfe, Really the Blues, Payback Press 1999, page 91:
- In the summertime they'd reach out and snatch your straw hat right off your head, and if you were fool enough to go after it your poke was bound to be lighter when you came out.
- 2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin 2009, page 138:
- She did not eat blood-oranges. Her maw gived her one in a poke and she was going to throw it in the bin, Oh it is all black.
- c. 1599, William Shakespeare, As You Like It, act 2, scene 7:
- A long, wide sleeve.
- Synonym: poke sleeve
- (Scotland, Northern Ireland) An ice cream cone.
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 3
Either a shortening of, or from the same source as, pocan (“pokeweed”) (q.v.).
Noun
poke (uncountable)
- (dialectal) pokeweed
Synonyms
- see the list at pokeweed
Translations
Etymology 4
From Hawaiian poke (“slice crossways”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?po?.ke?/
Noun
poke (uncountable)
- (Hawaii) Slices or cubes of raw fish or other raw seafood, mixed with sesame oil, seaweed, sea salt, herbs, spices, or other flavorful ingredients.
Usage notes
Often typeset as poké to aid pronunciation.
Anagrams
- kepo
Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?poke/, [?po?ke?]
- Rhymes: -oke
- Syllabification: po?ke
Etymology 1
From portsari (“doorman”).
Noun
poke
- (slang) doorman, bouncer (at a bar or nightclub)
Declension
Etymology 2
From porno (“pornography”).
Noun
poke
- (slang) pornography
Declension
Ido
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?poke/
Adverb
poke
- slightly
Maori
Adjective
poke
- grimy
Middle English
Alternative forms
- pok, poc, puke
Etymology
Borrowed from Anglo-Norman poke.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?p??k(?)/
Noun
poke (plural pokes)
- sack, pouch, bag
Descendants
- English: poke
- Yola: poake, pooke
References
- “p?ke, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Old French
Alternative forms
- poque, pouche, puche
Etymology
From Frankish *poka.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?p?.k?/
Noun
poke f (oblique plural pokes, nominative singular poke, nominative plural pokes)
- sack
- E puis les poudrez bien de sel e les mettez ensemble en une poke de bon kanevaz
Derived terms
- poket
Descendants
- ? Middle English: poc, poke, pooke
- English: poke (regional)
- Scots: pok, poke, polk, poik
Tocharian A
Etymology
From Proto-Tocharian *pokowjä-, earlier *p?kewjä-, from pre-Tocharian *b?eh???ow-h?en- (definite), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *b?eh???ús (“arm”). Compare Tocharian B pokai.
Noun
poke
- arm
References
- Adams, Douglas Q. (2013) , “poko*”, in A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, ?ISBN, page 434
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