different between boxer vs middleweight

English

Etymology

box +? -er

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?b?ks?/
• (US) enPR: bäks??r, IPA^(key): /?b??ks?/
• Rhymes: -?ks?(r)

Noun

boxer (plural boxers)

1. A participant (fighter) in a boxing match.

2. A breed of stocky, medium-sized, short-haired dog with a square-jawed muzzle.
3. A type of internal combustion engine in which cylinders are arranged in two banks on either side of a single crankshaft.
4. The person running a game of two-up.
5. One who packs boxes.
   • 1917, Vocational Education Survey of Minneapolis, Minn (page 385)

     They look over the boxes that have been packed, pass judgment upon defects detected by the boxers, and O. K. the boxes […]

6. A letterboxer.

Synonyms

• (participant in a boxing match): pugilist
• (type of engine): boxer engine

Derived terms

• boxer shorts, boxers
• kick-boxer, kickboxer

Related terms

• box
• boxing

Translations

See also

• wrestler
• Boxer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Boxer (dog) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• rebox

Cebuano

Etymology

Named after its glove-like palps.

Noun

boxer

1. an unqualified spider in spider fighting, a male with glove-like palps, instead used as a feed

Czech

Noun

boxer m

1. boxer (participant in a boxing match)

Declension

French

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?k.s??/

Noun

boxer m (plural boxers)

1. boxer (dog)
2. boxer shorts, boxers
3. boxer (engine)

Etymology 2

English box +? -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?k.se/

Verb

boxer

1. to box (to fight against (a person) in a boxing match)

Conjugation

Related terms

• boxe
• boxeur

Further reading

• “boxer” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Noun

boxer m (invariable)

1. boxer shorts

Norman

Etymology

From English box +? -er.

Verb

boxer

1. (Jersey) to box

Portuguese

Noun

boxer m (plural boxers)

1. boxer (breed of dog)

Romanian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French boxeur.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bok.ser/

Noun

boxer m (plural boxeri, feminine equivalent boxer?)

1. boxer (participant in a boxing match)

Declension

Synonyms

• pugilist

Related terms

• box
• boxa
• boxare

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English boxer, French boxer, German Boxer.

Noun

boxer m (plural boxeri)

1. boxer (breed of dog)

Declension

References

• boxer in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Spanish

Noun

boxer m (plural boxers)

1. (proscribed) Alternative spelling of bóxer

English

Etymology

middle +? weight

Noun

middleweight (countable and uncountable, plural middleweights)

1. (uncountable) A weight class in professional boxing between light middleweight or welterweight and super middleweight or cruiserweight; a similar division in wrestling and other sports
2. (countable) A boxer who fights in this division; a similar wrestler etc
3. (countable, business, by extension) An employee ranking anywhere between junior and senior.
   • 2009, Guy Julier, Liz Moor, Design and Creativity: Policy, Management and Practice

     And it's interesting because in a way they're much more of a design company, and they've got their juniors and their seniors and their middleweights and all this stuff.