Usually means: Container typically used for storage.
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We found 71 dictionaries that define the word box:

General (30 matching dictionaries)
  1. box, the box: Merriam-Webster
  2. Box, box, box, box, box, the box: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. box, box, box: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. box, the box: Collins English Dictionary
  5. box: Vocabulary.com
  6. Box, box: Wordnik
  7. box, the box: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Box, box: Wiktionary
  9. box: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. box: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. box: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. box, the box: Dictionary.com
  13. box (n.1.), box (n.2.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. box: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Box (Gas album), Box (Guided by Voices album), Box (Sam Brown album), Box (comics), Box (company), Box (cricket), Box (disambiguation), Box (juggling), Box (service), Box (shape), Box (surname), Box (theatre), Box (torture), Box (wood), Box, The Box (American TV channel), The Box (BBC container), The Box (British and Irish TV channel), The Box (Brooklyn Nine-Nine), The Box (Chicago album), The Box (Dutch TV channel), The Box (Fringe), The Box (Grass book), The Box (Irish TV series), The Box (Levinson book), The Box (New Zealand), The Box (Orbital song), The Box (Randy Travis song), The Box (Roddy Ricch song), The Box (TV series), The Box (U.S.), The Box (U.S. TV channel), The Box (UK and Ireland), The Box (UK and Ireland TV channel), The Box (UK and Irish TV channel), The Box (US TV channel), The Box (Van der Graaf Generator album), The Box (band), The Box (disambiguation), The Box (film), The Box (torture), The Box, The box: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Box: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. box: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. box: Rhymezone
  19. box: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. box: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Box (men's athletic protection): Britih-American Dictionary
  22. BOX: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. Box: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  24. box: FreeDictionary.org
  25. box: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. box: TheFreeDictionary.com
  27. box: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  28. box: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)
  2. Epicurus.com Cigar Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)

Business (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. BOX: Investopedia
  4. Comprehensive Financial (No longer online)
  5. Abbreviations in shipping (No longer online)
  6. box: Legal dictionary
  7. box: Financial dictionary
  8. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. box: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. box: Netlingo
  3. Webopedia (No longer online)
  4. Box (3d modeling), Box (phreaking), box: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Box (3d modeling), box: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. BOX: Acronym Finder
  3. BOX: Three Letter Words with definitions
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. box: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Box: Easton Bible

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. A Modern Herbal, 1931, by Mrs. M. Grieve (No longer online)
  3. Box: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  4. Box: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  5. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. box, box, box, box, box, box, box: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. box: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  4. Box: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook
  5. The box, box (nicole), the box: Urban Dictionary
  6. Box: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Box: Backgammon
  2. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  3. Box: Sports Definitions

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  4. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See boxed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  Senses relating to a three-dimensional object or space.
noun:  A cuboid space; a cuboid container, often with a hinged lid.
noun:  A cuboid container and its contents; as much as fills such a container.
noun:  A compartment (as a drawer) of an item of furniture used for storage, such as a cupboard, a shelf, etc.
noun:  A compartment or receptacle for receiving items.
noun:  A numbered receptacle at a newspaper office for anonymous replies to advertisements; see also box number.
noun:  A compartment to sit inside in an auditorium, courtroom, theatre, or other building.
noun:  The driver’s seat on a horse-drawn coach.
noun:  A small rectangular shelter.
noun:  (figuratively) A predicament or trap.
noun:  (slang) A prison cell.
noun:  (slang) A cell used for solitary confinement.
noun:  (euphemistic) A coffin.
noun:  (slang, preceded by the) The television.
noun:  (slang, vulgar) The vagina.
noun:  (computing, slang) A computer, or the case in which it is housed.
noun:  (slang) A gym dedicated to the CrossFit exercise program.
noun:  (cricket) A hard protector for the genitals worn inside the underpants by a batsman or close fielder.
noun:  (cricket) Synonym of gully (“a certain fielding position”)
noun:  (engineering) A cylindrical casing around the axle of a wheel, a bearing, a gland, etc.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (dated) A small country house.
noun:  (colloquial, chiefly Southern US) A stringed instrument with a soundbox, especially a guitar.
noun:  Senses relating to a two-dimensional object or space
noun:  A rectangle: an oblong or a square.
noun:  (baseball) The rectangle in which the batter stands.
noun:  (genetics) One of two specific regions in a promoter.
noun:  (juggling) A pattern usually performed with three balls where the movements of the balls make a boxlike shape.
noun:  (soccer) The penalty area.
noun:  (aviation) A diamond-shaped flying formation consisting of four aircraft.
noun:  (geometry, by extension) A rectangular object in any number of dimensions.
verb:  (transitive) To place inside a box; to pack in one or more boxes.
verb:  (transitive) Usually followed by in: to surround and enclose in a way that restricts movement; to corner, to hem in.
verb:  (transitive) To mix two containers of paint of similar colour to ensure that the color is identical.
verb:  (transitive, agriculture) To make an incision or hole in (a tree) for the purpose of procuring the sap.
verb:  (transitive, architecture) To enclose with boarding, lathing, etc., so as to conceal (for example, pipes) or to bring to a required form.
verb:  (transitive, engineering) To furnish (for example, the axle of a wheel) with a box.
verb:  (transitive, graphic design, printing) To enclose (images, text, etc.) in a box.
verb:  (transitive, object-oriented programming) To place a value of a primitive type into a casing object.
noun:  Any of various evergreen shrubs or trees of genus Buxus, especially common box, European box, or boxwood (Buxus sempervirens) which is often used for making hedges and topiary.
noun:  The wood from a box tree: boxwood.
noun:  (music, slang) A musical instrument, especially one made from boxwood.
noun:  (Australia) An evergreen tree of the genus Lophostemon (for example, box scrub, Brisbane box, brush box, pink box, or Queensland box, Lophostemon confertus).
noun:  (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, drooping box (Eucalyptus bicolor), shiny-leaved box (Eucalyptus tereticornis), black box, or ironbark box trees.
noun:  A blow with the fist.
verb:  (transitive) To strike with the fists; to punch.
verb:  (transitive, boxing) To fight against (a person) in a boxing match.
verb:  (intransitive, stative, boxing) To participate in boxing; to be a boxer.
noun:  (dated) A Mediterranean food fish of the genus Boops, which is a variety of sea bream; a bogue or oxeye.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  A village in Minchinhampton parish, south of Stroud, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SO8600).
noun:  A village and civil parish near Corsham, Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref ST8268).
noun:  Short for horsebox (“container for transporting horses”). [(UK) A motor vehicle for transporting horses.]
noun:  (automotive) Short for gearbox. [An enclosed gear train.]
noun:  (automotive) Short for stashbox. [A box used to store a stash of something, especially illicit narcotics.]
noun:  (rail transport) Short for signal box. [A building, typically adjacent to or spanning a railway line, from where signals, points and (sometimes) level crossings are controlled.]
noun:  (lacrosse, informal) Short for box lacrosse (“indoor form of lacrosse”). [An indoor version of lacrosse played mostly in North America, and distinguished from field lacrosse.]

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