What is the meaning of Box?

Senses relating to a three-dimensional object or space.

2. A cuboid space; a cuboid container, often with a hinged lid.

   A cuboid space; a cuboid container, often with a hinged lid.

   A cuboid container and its contents; as much as fills such a container.

   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 compartment to sit inside in an auditorium, courtroom, theatre, or other building.

   The driver’s seat on a horse-drawn coach.

   A small rectangular shelter.

   Short for horsebox (“container for transporting horses”).

   Short for gearbox.

    Short for stashbox.

   Short for signal box.

   A predicament or trap.

   A prison cell.

   1. A cell used for solitary confinement.

      A cell used for solitary confinement.

      A coffin.

      The television.

      The vagina.

      A computer, or the case in which it is housed.

      A gym dedicated to the CrossFit exercise program.

      A hard protector for the genitals worn inside the underpants by a batsman or close fielder.

      Synonym of gully (“a certain fielding position”)

      A cylindrical casing around the axle of a wheel, a bearing, a gland, etc.

      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.

      A small country house.

      A stringed instrument with a soundbox, especially a guitar.

      Senses relating to a two-dimensional object or space

      1. A rectangle: an oblong or a square.

         A rectangle: an oblong or a square.

         The rectangle in which the batter stands.

         One of two specific regions in a promoter.

         A pattern usually performed with three balls where the movements of the balls make a boxlike shape.

         Short for box lacrosse (“indoor form of lacrosse”).

         The penalty area.

         A diamond-shaped flying formation consisting of four aircraft.

         A rectangular object in any number of dimensions.

         To place inside a box; to pack in one or more boxes.

         Usually followed by in: to surround and enclose in a way that restricts movement; to corner, to hem in.

         To mix two containers of paint of similar colour to ensure that the color is identical.

         To make an incision or hole in (a tree) for the purpose of procuring the sap.

         To enclose with boarding, lathing, etc., so as to conceal (for example, pipes) or to bring to a required form.

         To furnish (for example, the axle of a wheel) with a box.

         To enclose (images, text, etc.) in a box.

         To place a value of a primitive type into a casing object.

         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.

         The wood from a box tree: boxwood.

         A musical instrument, especially one made from boxwood.

         An evergreen tree of the genus Lophostemon (for example, box scrub, Brisbane box, brush box, pink box, or Queensland box, Lophostemon confertus).

         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.

         A blow with the fist.

         To strike with the fists; to punch.

         To fight against (a person) in a boxing match.

         To participate in boxing; to be a boxer.

         A Mediterranean food fish of the genus Boops, which is a variety of sea bream; a bogue or oxeye.

         boxing (the sport of boxing)

         speaker, loudspeaker

         playpen

         compartment for livestock

         tax category

         stall (for a horse), loose box

         compartment, cubicle

         garage, lock-up (for a car)

         Electronic equipment used for internet access (component of the digital subscriber line technology)

         Misspelling of boksz.

         box (container)

         boxing

         horsebox

         garage, lock-up

         pit

         playpen

         a kind of marine fish

         box tree (the tree Buxus sempervirens)

         the wood of this tree; boxwood

         A cylindrical jar.

         A case, container or strongbox.

         A bloodletting cup.

         The socket of a joint.

         box (a blow with the fist)

         box tree

         box

         stall (for a horse)

         electronic equipment used for internet access (component of the digital subscriber line technology)

         shower stall; area of a bathroom, separated by a curtain or panes, where the shower is located

         boxing

         a kind of sword

         bovine leather

         a breed of bulldog

         pit

         box

         boxing (sport)

         a box, crate; a cuboid container

         a box (blow with the fist)

         Source: wiktionary.org