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box noun

  /bɑks/ , /bɒks/
  • A cuboid space; a cuboid container, often with a hinged lid.
  • A compartment or receptacle for receiving items.
laatikko, rasia
  • (engineering) A cylindrical casing around the axle of a wheel, a bearing, a gland, etc.
laatikko, pesä
  • A compartment (as a drawer) of an item of furniture used for storage, such as a cupboard, a shelf, etc.
laatikko, ruutu
  • (slang) Preceded by the: television.
telkkari, toosa
  • A compartment to sit inside in an auditorium, courtroom, theatre, or other building.
aitio, loosi
  • (cricket) A hard protector for the genitals worn inside the underpants by a batsman or close fielder.
alasuoja
  • A small rectangular shelter.
koju, koppi
  • The driver's seat on a horse-drawn coach.
kuskinpukki
  • A rectangle: an oblong or a square.
laatikko
  • A cuboid container and its contents; as much as fills such a container.
laatikollinen, laatikko
  • (slang, vulgar) The vagina.
pesä, toosa, tussu
  • (computing, slang) A computer, or the case in which it is housed.
pönttö
  • (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.
ruutu

box verb

  /bɑks/ , /bɒks/
  • (transitive, boxing) To fight against (a person) in a boxing match.
  • (intransitive, stative, boxing) To participate in boxing; to be a boxer.
nyrkkeillä
  • (transitive) To strike with the fists; to punch.
iskeä, lyödä nyrkillä

box noun

  /bɑks/ , /bɒks/
  • (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, the drooping box (Eucalyptus bicolor), shiny-leaved box (Eucalyptus tereticornis), black box, or ironbark box trees.
puksipuu, koiranpensas

box verb

  /bɑks/ , /bɒks/
  • (transitive, architecture) To enclose with boarding, lathing, etc., so as to conceal (for example, pipes) or to bring to a required form.
  • (transitive, engineering) To furnish (for example, the axle of a wheel) with a box.
  • (transitive, object-oriented programming) To place a value of a primitive type into a casing object.
koteloida
  • (transitive) To place inside a box; to pack in one or more boxes.
pakata, pakata laatikkoon, pakata laatikoihin

boxing noun

  /ˈbɑːksɪŋ/ , /ˈbɒksɪŋ/
  • (sports) A sport where two opponents punch each other with gloved fists to head and torso; the object being to score more points by the end of the match or by knockout, or technical knockout.
nyrkkeily

boxing noun

  /ˈbɑːksɪŋ/ , /ˈbɒksɪŋ/
  • (object-oriented programming) Automatic conversion of value types to objects by wrapping them within a heap-allocated reference type.
käärintä

box noun

  /bɑks/ , /bɒks/
  • A blow with the fist.
isku nyrkillä, lyönti nyrkillä

boxful noun

  • as much as a box will hold
laatikko

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