Tra từ box - Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

box [box boxes boxed boxing] noun, verb BrE [bɒks] NAmE [bɑːks]
noun

CONTAINER
1. countable (especially in compounds)a container made of wood, cardboard, metal, etc. with a flat stiff base and sides and often a lid, used especially for holding solid things
• She kept all the letters in a box.
•a money box
•cardboard boxes
•a toolbox
•a matchbox
2. countable a box and its contents
•a box of chocolates/matches

IN THEATRE/COURT
3. countable a small area in a theatre or court separated off from where other people sit
•a box at the opera
•the witness/jury box

SHELTER
4. countable a small shelter used for a particular purpose
•a sentry/signal box
• (BrE)a telephone box
• I called him from the phone box on the corner.

SHAPE
5. countable a small square or ↑rectangle drawn on a page for people to write information in
• Put a cross in the appropriate box.
•to tick/check a box

TELEVISION
6. the boxsingular (informal, especially BrE)the television
• What's on the box tonight?

ON ROAD
7. countable (BrE) = ↑box junction
•Only traffic turning right may enter the box.

IN SPORT
8. countable an area on a sports field that is marked by lines and used for a particular purpose: (BrE)He was fouled in the box (= the penalty box).

FOR MAIL
9. countable = ↑box number
see also ↑PO box

PROTECTION
10. countable (BrE)a piece of plastic that a man wears over his sex organs to protect them while he is playing a sport, especially ↑cricket

TREE/WOOD
11. countable, uncountable a small ↑evergreen tree or bush with thick dark leaves, used especially for garden ↑hedges
12. (also box·wood)uncountable the hard wood of this bush
more at think out of the box at ↑think _v., tick all the/sb's boxes at ↑tick _v., a bag/box of tricks at ↑trick _n.

Word Origin:
n. senses 1 to 10 and v. sense 2 late Old English late Latin buxis Latin pyxis ‘boxwood box’ Greek puxos v. sense 1 late Middle English ‘a blow’ n. senses 11 to 12 Old English Latin Greek puxos

Thesaurus:
box noun C
•a cardboard box
crate • • tin • • carton • • container • • case • |especially AmE package •
a box/crate/tin/carton/case/package of sth
in a box/crate/tin/carton/container/case/package
fill a box/crate/tin/carton/container/case

Example Bank:
•Click on ‘open file’ in the dialogue box.
•Put a cross in the box if you agree with the comments.
•She filled the box with old clothes.
•She opened her money box to see if she had saved enough for a tennis racket.
•The cash box was kept in a safe.
•The cash box was kept in the safe at the back of the shop.
•The dog sleeps in a box lined with an old blanket.
•The exhibition is free, but there is a collection box for donations.
•The house we would like to buy ticks all the boxes.
•There is a safety deposit box in every room of the hotel.
•There was a babble of languages in the commentary box when the race began.
•They drank champagne as they watched the game from the executive box.
•They were sitting around the fire on upturned boxes.
•This box holds ten 10 candles and costs $21.40.
•Tick the appropriate box below.
•We packed all the books into boxes.
•a box marked ‘fragile’
•a box of chocolates
•a private box at the opera
•Everything we owned was neatly packed in cardboard boxes.
•He produced a box of matches from his pocket.
•He showed no emotion as he walked into the witness box.
•The painting depicts two elegantly dressed women in a box at the opera.
•the jury box
Idioms: ↑box clever ▪ ↑box somebody's ears ▪ ↑give somebody a box on the ears
Derived: ↑box somebody in

verb

FIGHT
1. intransitive, transitive ~ (sb) to fight sb in the sport of ↑boxing

PUT IN CONTAINER
2. transitive ~ sth (up) to put sth in a box
Verb forms:

Word Origin:
n. senses 1 to 10 and v. sense 2 late Old English late Latin buxis Latin pyxis ‘boxwood box’ Greek puxos v. sense 1 late Middle English ‘a blow’ n. senses 11 to 12 Old English Latin Greek puxos

Example Bank:
•He boxed for Ireland in the Olympics.
•She boxed the decorations up and put them in the attic.
•The newcomer boxed the champion for the full twelve rounds.

See also: ↑boxwood