Box vs. Cube

Boxnoun

Senses relating to a three-dimensional object or space.

Boxnoun

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

Boxnoun

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

Boxnoun

A compartment (as a drawer) of an item of furniture used for storage, such as a cupboard, a shelf, etc.

Boxnoun

A compartment or receptacle for receiving items.

Boxnoun

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

Boxnoun

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

Boxnoun

A small rectangular shelter; a booth.

Boxnoun

(figuratively) A predicament or trap.

Boxnoun

(euphemistic) A coffin.

Boxnoun

(slang) Preceded by the: television.

Boxnoun

The vagina.

Boxnoun

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

Boxnoun

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

Boxnoun

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

Boxnoun

(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.

Boxnoun

(dated) A small country house.

Boxnoun

Senses relating to a two-dimensional object or space

Boxnoun

A rectangle: an oblong or a square.

Boxnoun

(baseball) The rectangle in which the batter stands.

Boxnoun

(genetics) One of two specific regions in a promoter.

Boxnoun

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

Boxnoun

(soccer) The penalty area.

Boxnoun

Any of various evergreen shrubs or trees of the genus Buxus, especially the common box, European box, or boxwood (Buxus sempervirens) which is often used for making hedges and topiary.

Boxnoun

The wood from a box tree: boxwood.

Boxnoun

A musical instrument, especially one made from boxwood.

Boxnoun

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

Boxnoun

A blow with the fist.

Boxnoun

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

Boxverb

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

Boxverb

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

Boxverb

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

Boxverb

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

Boxverb

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

Boxverb

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

Boxverb

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

Boxverb

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

Boxverb

(transitive) To strike with the fists; to punch.

Boxverb

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

Boxverb

To participate in boxing; to be a boxer.

Boxnoun

A tree or shrub, flourishing in different parts of the world. The common box (Buxus sempervirens) has two varieties, one of which, the dwarf box (Buxus suffruticosa), is much used for borders in gardens. The wood of the tree varieties, being very hard and smooth, is extensively used in the arts, as by turners, engravers, mathematical instrument makers, etc.

Boxnoun

A receptacle or case of any firm material and of various shapes.

Boxnoun

The quantity that a box contain.

Boxnoun

A space with a few seats partitioned off in a theater, or other place of public amusement.

Boxnoun

A chest or any receptacle for the deposit of money; as, a poor box; a contribution box.

Boxnoun

A small country house.

Boxnoun

A boxlike shed for shelter; as, a sentry box.

Boxnoun

An axle box, journal box, journal bearing, or bushing.

Boxnoun

The driver's seat on a carriage or coach.

Boxnoun

A present in a box; a present; esp. a Christmas box or gift.

Boxnoun

The square in which the pitcher stands.

Boxnoun

A Mediterranean food fish; the bogue.

Boxnoun

A blow on the head or ear with the hand.

Boxverb

To inclose in a box.

Boxverb

To furnish with boxes, as a wheel.

Boxverb

To inclose with boarding, lathing, etc., so as to bring to a required form.

Boxverb

To fight with the fist; to combat with, or as with, the hand or fist; to spar.

Boxverb

To strike with the hand or fist, especially to strike on the ear, or on the side of the head.

Boxverb

To boxhaul.

Boxnoun

a (usually rectangular) container; may have a lid;

Boxnoun

private area in a theater or grandstand where a small group can watch the performance;

Boxnoun

the quantity contained in a box;

Boxnoun

a predicament from which a skillful or graceful escape is impossible;

Boxnoun

a rectangular drawing;

Boxnoun

evergreen shrubs or small trees

Boxnoun

any one of several designated areas on a ball field where the batter or catcher or coaches are positioned;

Boxnoun

the driver's seat on a coach;

Boxnoun

separate partitioned area in a public place for a few people;

Boxnoun

a blow with the hand (usually on the ear);

Boxverb

put into a box;

Boxverb

hit with the fist;

Boxverb

engage in a boxing match

Boxnoun

a container with a flat base and sides, typically square or rectangular and having a lid

Boxnoun

the contents of a box

Boxnoun

television or a television set

Boxnoun

a casing containing a computer

Boxnoun

a coffin

Boxnoun

a coachman's seat.

Boxnoun

an area on a page that is to be filled in or that contains separate printed matter

Boxnoun

an area on a computer screen for user input or displaying information

Boxnoun

a box junction

Boxnoun

the penalty area

Boxnoun

the area occupied by the batter

Boxnoun

a separate section or enclosed area reserved for a group of people in a theatre or sports ground, or for witnesses or the jury in a law court

Boxnoun

a small country house for use when shooting or fishing.

Boxnoun

a protective casing for a piece of a mechanism

Boxnoun

short for gearbox

Boxnoun

a light shield for protecting a man's genitals in sport, especially in cricket.

Boxnoun

a facility at a newspaper office for receiving replies to an advertisement

Boxnoun

a facility at a post office whereby letters are kept until called for by the addressee.

Boxnoun

a woman's vagina.

Boxnoun

a slap with the hand on the side of a person's head

Boxnoun

a slow-growing European evergreen shrub or small tree with small glossy dark green leaves. It is widely used in hedging and for topiary, and yields hard, heavy timber.

Boxnoun

the hard, heavy wood of the box tree, formerly used for engraving and for musical instruments.

Boxnoun

any of a number of trees that have wood or foliage similar to the box tree.

Boxverb

put in or provide with a box

Boxverb

enclose (a piece of text) within printed lines

Boxverb

restrict the ability of (a person or vehicle) to move freely

Boxverb

mix up different flocks.

Boxverb

fight an opponent using one's fists; compete in the sport of boxing

Boxverb

recite the compass points in correct order.

Boxverb

make a complete change of direction

Box

A box (plural: boxes) is a type of container or rectangular prism used for the storage or transportation of its contents. The size of a box may vary, from the very smallest (such as a matchbox) to the size of a large appliance, and can be used for a variety of purposes ranging from the functional to the decorative.

Cubenoun

(geometry) A regular polyhedron having six identical square faces.

Cubenoun

Any object more or less in the form of a cube.

Cubenoun

(mathematics) The third power of a number, value, term or expression.

Cubenoun

(computing) A data structure consisting of a three-dimensional array; a data cube

Cubenoun

A cubicle, especially one of those found in offices.

Cubeverb

To raise to the third power; to determine the result of multiplying by itself twice.

Cubeverb

(transitive) To form into the shape of a cube.

Cubeverb

(transitive) To cut into cubes.

Cubeverb

(UK) to use a Rubik's cube.

Cubenoun

A regular solid body, with six equal square sides.

Cubenoun

The product obtained by taking a number or quantity three times as a factor; as, 4x4=16, and 16x4=64, the cube of 4.

Cubeverb

To raise to the third power; to obtain the cube of.

Cubenoun

a three-dimensional shape with six square or rectangular sides

Cubenoun

a hexahedron with six equal squares as faces

Cubenoun

the product of three equal terms

Cubenoun

any of several tropical American woody plants of the genus Lonchocarpus whose roots are used locally as a fish poison and commercially as a source of rotenone

Cubenoun

a block in the (approximate) shape of a cube

Cubeverb

raise to the third power

Cubeverb

cut into cubes;

Cube

In geometry, a cube is a three-dimensional solid object bounded by six square faces, facets or sides, with three meeting at each vertex. The cube is the only regular hexahedron and is one of the five Platonic solids.