Box

See also: box and b'ox

English

Alternative forms

• (surname): Boxx

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Proper noun

Box

1. A surname.
   • 2022 August 29, Elena Shao, “New Research Forecasts More Dire Sea Level Rise as Greenland’s Ice Melts”, in The New York Times‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 3 September 2022:

     The 10-inch increase forecast in the new study, which does not give a timeline, could be much higher if temperatures continue to rise, as they almost certainly will, said Jason Box, a glaciologist at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland who was the paper’s lead author.

2. A village in Minchinhampton parish, south of Stroud, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SO8600).
3. A village and civil parish near Corsham, Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref ST8268).

Derived terms

• Box and Cox
• Box-Cox distribution
• Box-Cox transform
• Box-Cox transformation
• Boxford
• Boxgrove
• Box Hill
• Box-Muller transform

Anagrams

• BXO, OBX

German

Etymology

Borrowed from English box. Doublet of Büchse (“can”) and Buchse (“bushing, connector”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɔks/

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔks

Noun

Box f (genitive Box, plural Boxen)

1. box (cuboid container); but not as widely used as in English in formal language, perhaps most common for plastic boxes
2. (electronics) loudspeaker (box-like encasing containing one or more loudspeaker devices)
3. (equestrianism) a stall for a horse (compartment in a stable); not used for a horsebox, which is Pferdeanhänger
   • 1913 [1878], chapter 21, in Hermann Röhl, transl., Anna Karenina‎^[2], part 2, translation of Анна Каренина (Anna Karenina) by Leo Tolstoy:

     In der Box stand ein dunkelbraunes Pferd mit einem Kappzaum und stampfte in dem frischen Stroh umher.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

4. (motor racing) pit (area for refueling and repairing)

Usage notes

• With regard to the derived senses 2, 3, and 4, Box has become a false friend of its English etymon, box.

Declension

Declension of Box [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Box	die	Boxen
genitive	einer	der	Box	der	Boxen
dative	einer	der	Box	den	Boxen
accusative	eine	die	Box	die	Boxen

Synonyms

• (box): Behälter; Dose; Karton; Kasten; Kiste; Schachtel

Derived terms

• Bassbox
• Blackbox
• Boxenstopp
• Gitterbox
• Hitbox
• Lunchbox
• Musikbox
• Pferdebox
• Plastikbox

Further reading

• “Box” in Duden online
• “Box”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[3] (in German)

Limburgish

Alternative forms

• bóx, bóks, box, boks (Veldeke spelling)
• Botts (Eupen)
• Bocksch

Etymology

Derived from or related to Middle Low German buxe. Compare Luxembourgish Box and Central Franconian Botz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈboks/, [ˈbʊks]
• (some dialects and some younger speakers) IPA^(key): /ˈbɔks/, [ˈbɒks]
• Rhymes: -oks

Noun

Box f (plural Boxe, diminutive Böxke) (German-based spelling)

1. trousers (UK); pants (US)
2. diaper
3. feathers on a chicken's leg

Derived terms

• boxe
• Boxeband
• Boxebeen
• Boxeboam
• Boxebord
• Boxedrieter
• Boxegölp
• Boxehagel
• Boxehoon
• Boxehölp
• Boxekass
• Boxeknopp
• Boxeknoup
• Boxemaan
• Boxenoad
• Boxepenn
• Boxepiep
• Boxereem
• Boxerenk
• Boxeschieter
• Boxeschlag
• Boxeschnall
• Boxeschnijjer
• Boxeschrott
• Boxeseeker
• Boxestoff
• Boxestuuk
• Boxetäsch
• Boxeverschliet
• Onderbox

Luxembourgish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /boks/

Noun

Box f (plural Boxen)

1. trousers