/bɒks/
Translation
A container with straight sides, used to hold or carry things.
Word origin
From Old English box, from Latin buxus, the box tree whose wood made such containers.
- Origin
- Old English
- Root
- box
Grammar
Examples
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"Box" is one container for things.
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"Boxes" is the plural, meaning more than one box.
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Here "box" is the thing we open.
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Stories
(12)A Rainy Afternoon
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The First Day at Work
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The Broken Window
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The Clock in the Hall
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The Letter She Never Sent
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Not in Front of Them
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The Box in the Wood
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The Suggestion Box
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Two Tickets to Paris
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Grammar articles
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Ellipsis and substitution in English: I think so, neither do I, and the words you are allowed to leave out
Inversion and word order in English: the subject-verb-object spine and when it flips
Modal verbs in English: rules, examples and how to use them
Participle clauses in English: -ing and -ed clauses, and the dangling participle trap
Phrasal verbs: 100 examples with meanings
Phrasal verbs in English: what they are, meanings, rules and examples
Prepositions in English: place, time and movement explained
Present continuous tense: form, spelling and uses
Separable and inseparable phrasal verbs: the rules that matter
So, such, too and enough in English: words of degree and result
English tenses explained: all 12 with a master table
Word formation in English: how suffixes build word families and give away the part of speech
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