English Dictionary

box

/bɒks/

verb

(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.

She will box the books and send them to the library.

意味（1）

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

Scrapbooks that have enduring value in their original form should be individually boxed in custom-fitted boxes.

意味（2）

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

A large majority of children seem to delight in emotionally boxing in their parents—setting the double-bind trap by giving the parent two choices but determining ahead of time that neither choice will be sufficient for their satisfaction.

意味（3）

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

Straining eliminates lumps in the paint. If the paint has separated, stir the thick paint up from the bottom of each can to free as many lumps as possible. Then box the paint, pouring it all together through a nylon paint strainer and into the bucket. Paint less than one year old usually doesn't require straining. Older paint might have a thick skin on the top; remove the skin and set it aside. Box the paint, pouring it through a nylon paint strainer into the bucket.

意味（4）

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

The early settlers either boxed the tree or cut large slanting gashes, from the lower end of which a rudely fashioned spout conducted the sap to a bucket. This method was very destructive to the tree, and boring was substituted for it.

意味（5）

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

As early as the 1850s, prisons were being made safer by boxing in water pipes and enclosing galleries with netting to prevent jumping.

意味（6）

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

[T]he death of the said deceased Daniel Docherty, while in the defender's employment as an engineman, […] is alleged to have been owing to the engine house, which contained the engine of which the deceased had charge, being of a dangerous and improper construction, and the fly-wheel not having been boxed in or covered: […]

意味（7）

(transitive, graphic design, printing) To enclose (images, text, etc.) in a box.

意味（8）

(transitive, object-oriented programming) To place a value of a primitive type into a corresponding object.