Boxing

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Material used for boxes.
  • n. A boxlike covering or enclosure.
  • n. The act of enclosing in a box.
  • n. The act, activity, or sport of fighting with the fists, especially according to rules requiring the use of boxing gloves and limiting legal blows to those striking above the waist and on the front or sides of the opponent.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. Present participle of box.
  • n. A sport where two opponents punch each other with gloved fists, the object being to score more points by the end of the match or by knockout, or technical knockout.
  • n. Material used for making boxes or casing.
  • n. Casing.
  • n. Automatical conversion of value types to objects by wrapping them within a heap-allocated reference type.
  • v. Present participle of box.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The act of inclosing (anything) in a box, as for storage or transportation.
  • n. Material used in making boxes or casings.
  • n. Any boxlike inclosure or recess; a casing.
  • n. The external case of thin material used to bring any member to a required form.
  • n. The act of fighting with the fist; a combat with the fist; sparring; pugilism.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Nautical, a square piece of dry hard wood used in connecting the frame-timbers of a ship.
  • n. One of the cases on each side of a window into which the inside shutters are folded.
  • n. plural The sides of a window-frame where the weights hang.
  • n. plural Among millers, coarse flour separated in the process of bolting.
  • n. The process of fitting a piece of wood to receive a tenon.
  • n. The giving of a box or present, as at Christmas. See boxing-day.
  • n. The act or practice of fighting with the fists, with or without boxing-gloves; sparring.
  • n. In mining, a method of securing shafts solely by slabs and wooden pegs.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. fighting with the fists
  • n. the enclosure of something in a package or box
  • Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    casing    sparring    pugilism    fisticuffs   
    Verb Stem
    box   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    outfoxing   
    Unknown
    Sports