English Dictionary

box

IPA（発音記号）

/bɒks/

名詞

略語 別表記 比喩的用法 俗語 婉語 卑語 古風 南部アメリカ英語 口語 くだけた表現

A cuboid space; a cuboid container, often with a hinged lid. / A cuboid container and its contents; as much as fills such a container.

日本語の意味

直方体または立方体の形状をした容器。特に、ふた付きのものを指すことが多い。 / 容器そのものだけでなく、容器の中に入っている物全体を指す場合もある。

She slid the letters into the wooden box before closing the lid.

彼女はふたを閉める前に、手紙を木製の長方形の箱の中に滑り込ませた。

意味（1）

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

A terrible voice in the hall cried, Bring down Master Scrooge's box, there! and in the hall appeared the schoolmaster himself, who glared on Master Scrooge with a ferocious condescension, and threw him into a dreadful state of mind by shaking hands with him.

意味（2）

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

a box of books

意味（3）

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

意味（4）

A compartment or receptacle for receiving items.

post box post office box

意味（5）

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

There is yet a better manner of arranging the boxes; and for which invention we are indebted to Andrea Sighizzi, the ſcholar of [Francesco] Brizio and Dentone; […] The plan he followed was, that the boxes, according as they were to be removed from the ſtage towards the bottom of the theatre, ſhould continue gradually riſing by ſome inches one above the other, and gradually receding to the ſides by ſome inches; by which means, every box would have a more commodious view of the ſtage; […]

意味（6）

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

Next in importance to the Dvornik comes the coachman of a Russian household. He is usually chosen for his fatness and the length of his beard. These seem curious reasons for choosing a coachman in a country where coach-boxes are smaller than anywhere else in the world; but whereas the average breadth of a Russian coach-box is scarcely more than twelve inches at the outside, the average breadth of a Russian coachman is a very different affair.

意味（7）

A small rectangular shelter.

sentry-box

意味（8）

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

He was a fine-looking middle-aged man, and his voice said at once that he expected to be obeyed. He was very friendly and polite to John, and after giving us a slight look, he called a groom to take us to our boxes, and invited John to take some refreshment.

意味（9）

(automotive) Short for gearbox.

They were capable of climbing most hills in second low but for this exercise we decided to go for the bottom of the box, just to be sure.

意味（10）

(rail transport) Short for signal box.

Sparks from the derailed bogie of the train were first noticed by the signalman at Slough West box, who immediately sent to Slough Middle box the Stop and Examine signal, followed at once by Obstruction Danger when he realised that the coach was derailed.

意味（11）

(figuratively) A predicament or trap.

I’m really in a box now.

意味（12）

(slang) A prison cell.

While sojourning in the box I was greatly impressed by the kindness and decency of the Mexican people.

意味（13）

(euphemistic) A coffin.

Prior to the explosion we spoke about what would happen if he [Lance-Corporal James Simpson] died and came back in a box and what music he would want at his funeral.

意味（14）

(slang) Preceded by the: television.

Mr. Wormwood switched on the television. The screen lit up. The programme blared. Mr Wormwood glared at Matilda. She hadn't moved. She had somehow trained herself by now to block her ears to the ghastly sound of the dreaded box. She kept right on reading, and for some reason this infuriated the father.

意味（15）

(slang, vulgar) The vagina.

Without warning, he withdrew his finger and drove his tongue inside her creamy, hot box. She gave a sharp intake of breath.

意味（16）

(computing, slang) A computer, or the case in which it is housed.

a UNIX box

意味（17）

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

His [Rory Bremner's] brilliant story about having his box turned inside out by a delivery from Jeff Thomson – he contrasts it with Andrew Flintoff being hit in the box by Cardigan Connor. [David] Lloyd came up to Flintoff, and said, Cardigan Connor? You consider it an honour to be hit by Cardigan. Do you remember Jeff Thomson? I was hit amidships by him, and it was not a glancing blow. I was wearing one of those old boxes – you know, the pink ones, like a soap dish. It ended up that everything that was supposed to be inside the box had come outside the box – through the air holes!

意味（18）

(cricket) Synonym of gully (“a certain fielding position”)

意味（19）

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

In common axles, the wheel is prevented from coming off by a pin, called the linch pin, passing through the end of the axletree arm, the name of the part that the wheel turns upon; but as many serious accidents have happened through the linch pin failing and the wheel coming off, an improved method of securing the latter is now practised, by means of a box called the axletree box, which is contrived to answer the double purpose of keeping on the wheel, and to hold oil, grease, or some lubricating substance for lessening the friction.

意味（20）

(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.

In electric fencing, foil and saber fencers wear lames, which are thin outer jackets that cover their target areas. Lames are made from fabric that conducts electricity. When a fencer touches an opponent's lame with his or her blade, an electronic signal is sent to the scoring box. A colored light goes on to signal a touch. […] In épée, the whole body is the target, so épée fencers do not need to wear lames. A signal is sent to the scoring box from the épée any time a touch is made.

意味（21）

(dated) A small country house.

I dare say the sheriff, or the mayor and corporation, or some of those sort of people, would give him money enough, for the use of it, to run him up a mighty pretty neat little box somewhere near Richmond.

意味（22）

(colloquial, chiefly Southern US) A stringed instrument with a soundbox, especially a guitar.

So Tea Cake took the guitar and played himself. He was glad of the chance because he hadn't had his hand on a box since he put his in the pawn shop to get some money to hire a car for Janie soon after he met her.

意味（23）

A rectangle: an oblong or a square.

Place a tick in the box.

意味（24）

(baseball) The rectangle in which the batter stands.

As anyone who has ever maintained a baseball or softball diamond would agree, the pitcher's mound and batter's box present a special challenge. […] Batters dig in at the plate, disturbing the soil and making a hole that base runners must slide across when they approach the plate. To withstand the special stresses on these areas, only clay-based soils provide the necessary soil strength. […] [S]ome manufacturers have introduced clay-based soil products for pitcher's mounds and batter's boxes. These products include additives with special binding properties and are specifically designed to resist the stresses applied by the cleats of pitchers and batters.

意味（25）

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

Similar considerations apply in the case of tRNA genes, where the internal promoter is split into two functional domains (box A and box B) which must be a minimum distance apart[…]. The first 11 bp of the internal control region in the Xenopus 5S gene are structurally and functionally homologous to the box A element of tRNA gene promoters, […]

意味（26）

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

Your hands rest on the bottom plane of the box, relaxed and open; forearms are parallel with the ground and elbows close to your body. Balls thrown from your right hand are aimed at the point to the left of center of the top of the box. When you hit this point the ball will land in your left hand. Balls thrown from your left hand are aimed at the point to the right of center of the top of the box.

意味（27）

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

https://books.google.com/books?id=ShXWncCpluMC&pg=PA12 page 12 Field players wear shoes with short spikes, called cleats, on the soles. Box players wear court shoes, which have grooved rubber soles. […] https://books.google.com/books?id=ShXWncCpluMC&pg=PA30 page 30 Field goalies have larger nets to protect than goalies in box lacrosse have. Box goalies wear more pads.

意味（28）

(soccer) The penalty area.

Poised link-up play between [Michael] Essien and [Frank] Lampard set the Ghanaian midfielder free soon after but his left-footed shot from outside the box was too weak.

意味（29）

(aviation) A diamond-shaped flying formation consisting of four aircraft.

boxes （ plural ）

boxen （ humorous nonstandard plural ）