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noun
- the space in a ship or aircraft for storing cargo
- a stronghold
- a state of being confined (usually for a short time)
- time during which some action is awaited
- the appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it
- a cell in a jail or prison
- power by which something or someone is affected or dominated
- the act of grasping
- understanding of the nature or meaning or quality or magnitude of something
- A fruit machine feature allowing one or more of the reels to remain fixed while the others spin.
- (exercise) An exercise involving holding a position for a set time
- The property of maintaining the shape of styled hair.
- An act or instance of holding.
- A place where animals are held for safety
- Something reserved or kept.
- (tennis) An instance of holding one's service game, as opposed to being broken.
- The queueing system on telephones and similar communication systems which maintains a connection when all lines are busy.
- The ability to persist.
- An order that something is to be reserved or delayed, limiting or preventing how it can be dealt with.
- (baseball) A statistic awarded to a relief pitcher who is not still pitching at the end of the game and who records at least one out and maintains a lead for his team.
- (gambling) The percentage the house wins on a gamble, the house or bookmaker's hold.
- (gambling) The wager amount, the total hold.
- (aviation) A region of airspace reserved for aircraft being kept in a holding pattern.
- A grasp or grip.
- Power over someone or something.
- The part of an object one is intended to grasp, or anything one can use for grasping with hands or feet.
- (nautical, aviation) The cargo area of a ship or aircraft (often holds or cargo hold).
- (wrestling, self-defense) A position or grip used to control the opponent.
verb
- secure and keep for possible future use or application
- keep from exhaling or expelling
- resist or confront with resistance
- be the physical support of; carry the weight of
- maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings)
- aim, point, or direct
- support or hold in a certain manner
- have room for; hold without crowding
- have rightfully; of rights, titles, and offices
- remain committed to
- be pertinent or relevant or applicable
- contain or hold; have within
- be valid, applicable, or true
- be in accord; be in agreement
- have or possess, either in a concrete or an abstract sense
- hold the attention of
- have or hold in one's hands or grip
- assert or affirm
- keep from departing
- to close within bounds, or otherwise limit or deprive of free movement
- remain in a certain state, position, or condition
- keep in mind or convey as a conviction or view
- drink alcohol without showing ill effects
- lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits
- cause to come to an abrupt stop
- protect against a challenge or attack
- take and maintain control over, often by violent means
- cause to continue in a certain state, position, or activity
- bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted
- arrange for and reserve (something for someone else) in advance
- declare to be
- cover as for protection against noise or smell
- stop dealing with
- organize or be responsible for
- have as a major characteristic
- be capable of holding or containing
- (transitive) To impose restraint upon; to limit in motion or action; to bind legally or morally; to confine; to restrain.
- To maintain in being or action; to carry on; to prosecute, as a course of conduct or an argument; to continue; to sustain.
- (imperative) In a food or drink order at an informal restaurant etc., requesting that a component normally included in that order be omitted.
- To organise an event or meeting (usually in passive voice).
- (transitive) To reserve.
- (transitive) To bear, carry, or manage.
- (transitive) To have and keep possession of something.
- (transitive) To contain or store.
- (intransitive, copulative) To keep oneself in a particular state.
- (slang, intransitive) To be in possession of illicit drugs for sale.
- (intransitive, chiefly imperative) Not to move; to halt; to stop.
- (transitive) To bind (someone) to a consequence of his or her actions.
- To accept, as an opinion; to be the adherent of, openly or privately; to persist in, as a purpose; to maintain; to sustain.
- (transitive) To detain.
- (transitive) To maintain, to consider, to opine.
- To take place, to occur.
- To remain continent; to control an excretory bodily function.
- (intransitive) Not to give way; not to part or become separated; to remain unbroken or unsubdued.
- (tennis, ambitransitive) To win one's own service game.
- (transitive) To grasp or grip.
- (intransitive, copulative) To be or remain valid; to apply (usually in the third person).
- (transitive) To cause to wait or delay.
noun
- A storage compartment on a ship, not necessarily one that can be locked.
- a storage compartment for clothes and valuables; usually it has a lock
- (rare) One who locks something.
- (Louisiana) A closet.
- (historical) A customs officer who guards a warehouse.
- (automotive) A locking differential.
- A type of storage compartment with a lock, usually used to store personal possessions for public use, such as in schools, railway stations, place of work, gyms, sports centers.
- A lockable cubicle.
- a fastener that locks or closes
- a trunk for storing personal possessions; usually kept at the foot of a bed (as in a barracks)
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- (nautical) A place or room for the stowage of cargo in a ship.
- A disorganized collection of miscellaneous objects; a jumble.
- A thorough search, usually resulting in disorder.
- (nautical) The act of stowing cargo; the pulling and moving about of packages incident to close stowage.
- a jumble of things to be given away
- a thorough search for something (often causing disorder or confusion)
verb
- (transitive) To search something thoroughly and with disregard for the way in which things were arranged.
- (transitive, nautical) To search a vessel for smuggled goods.
- (transitive, nautical) To arrange (cargo, goods, etc.) in the hold of a ship; to move or rearrange such goods.
- (intransitive) To hastily search for something in a confined space and among many items by carelessly turning things over or pushing things aside; dig through carelessly.
- search haphazardly
noun
- a small locker at the stern of a boat or between decks of a ship
- (glassblowing) A hole in the side of a furnace used to heat glass held on a metal rod.
- The stewards' mess on a passenger liner.
- (mining) A hole in a mineshaft where an orebody is mined upwards until it breaks through the surface into the open air.
- A generally untidy place.
- (military, slang) A military trench.
- The stokehold on a coal-burning tramp steamer.
- (Canada, fishing) An especially good place to fish, a particularly rich fishing spot.
- A bell-mouth spillway; a spillway (a structure in the reservoir above a dam that allows overflowing water to be released in a controlled fashion) that is shaped like an upside-down bell, thereby giving the appearance of a hole in the surface of the water.
- (Scotland and Northern England) A deep built-in cupboard under the eaves or stairs of a house used for general storage, particularly of unrelated or unwanted items stored in some disorder.
- (sexuality, slang) A hole in a screen or wall big enough to allow an erect penis to be stuck through, made to facilitate anonymous sex with another person.
- (mining) An excavation into the sea floor designed to protect the wellhead equipment installed at the surface of a petroleum well from icebergs or pack ice.
verb
noun
- a small locker at the stern of a boat or between decks of a ship
- (by extension, nautical) A place at the front of the tweendecks of a merchant ship where provisions are stored.
- hospital for persons with infectious diseases (especially leprosy)
- (also figuratively) A building such as a hospital, or occasionally a ship, used to temporarily isolate sick people to prevent the spread of infectious diseases; a quarantine.
- A place reserved for people with infectious diseases (especially leprosy or plague) to live on a long-term basis.
noun
- An allocated space or berth in a boat or ship.
- Temporary lodgings in a private residence, such as is organised for members of a visiting sports team.
- A short piece of wood, especially one used as firewood.
- A short informal letter.
- (figurative) Berth; position.
- (architecture) An ornament in Norman work, resembling a billet of wood, either square or round.
- A place where a soldier is assigned to lodge.
- A written order to quarter soldiers.
- A sealed ticket for a draw or lottery.
- A loop that receives the end of a buckled strap.
- (heraldry) A rectangle used as a charge on an escutcheon.
- A short cutting of sugar cane produced by a harvester or used for planting.
- (metallurgy) A semi-finished length of metal.
- (saddlery) A strap that enters a buckle.
- Alternative form of billard (“coalfish”).
- lodging for military personnel (especially in a private home)
- a short personal letter
verb
noun
- an enclosed compartment from which a vessel can be navigated
- one's area of interest or expertise
- (archaeology) A prehistoric structure from the Iron Age found in Scotland, characteristically including an outer wall within which a circle of stone piers (resembling the spokes of a wheel) form the basis for lintel arches supporting corbelled roofing with a hearth at the hub.
- (Canada, US, baseball, by extension from sense 1.2) A pitch location which is favourable to the hitter.
- A building or other structure containing a (large) wheel, such as the water wheel of a mill.
- An enclosed compartment on the deck of a vessel such as a fishing boat, originally housing its helm or steering wheel, from which it may be navigated; on a larger vessel it is the bridge.
- The partially enclosed structure above and around a wheel of an automobile, typically partly formed by a portion of a fender panel that has been extended outward beyond the plane of the rest of the panel.
- (Canada, US, figuratively) A person's area of authority or expertise.
- The enclosed structure around the paddlewheel of a steamboat.
- (Canada, US, figuratively) A set of skills necessitated by a situation.
noun
- the galley or pantry of a small ship
- (nautical) A cabin, for the use of the captain, in the after part of a sailing ship under the poop deck.
- A coalfish (Pollachius virens).
- A lever mounted on a tripod for lifting stones, leveling up railroad ties, etc.
- (Scotland, Durham, Northumberland, historical) A donkey, especially one driven by a huckster or greengrocer.
- A small cupboard or closet.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang) A close friend or buddy.
- (UK, mining) A pony that works in a mine.
noun
- a storehouse (as a compartment on a warship) where weapons and ammunition are stored
- (nautical) The portion of a warship where munitions are stored.
- a metal frame or container holding cartridges; can be inserted into an automatic gun
- a light-tight supply chamber holding the film and supplying it for exposure as required
- a periodic publication containing pictures and stories and articles of interest to those who purchase it or subscribe to it
- a business firm that publishes magazines
- product consisting of a paperback periodic publication as a physical object
- (broadcasting) A radio or television show where each episode comprises a variety of features or segments, akin to the format of a print magazine.
- (historical, television, UK, Ireland) A collection of Teletext pages.
- (Louisiana) A store, or shop, where goods are kept for sale.
- A reservoir or supply chamber for a stove, battery, camera, typesetting machine, or other apparatus.
- A nonacademic, periodical publication which consists of articles by multiple writers on some broad topic or theme.
- A chamber in or attachable to a firearm enabling multiple rounds of ammunition to be fed into the firearm.
- (military) An ammunition storehouse.
noun
- a compartment on a ship between decks; often used as a hospital
- the sound of a hound on the scent
- an indentation of a shoreline larger than a cove but smaller than a gulf
- a horse of a moderate reddish-brown color
- a compartment in an aircraft used for some specific purpose
- a small recess opening off a larger room
- small Mediterranean evergreen tree with small blackish berries and glossy aromatic leaves used for flavoring in cooking; also used by ancient Greeks to crown victors
- (US, dialect) A tract covered with bay trees.
- The excited howling of dogs when hunting or being attacked.
- A brown colour/color of the coat of some horses.
- (countable) A tree or shrub of species Laurus nobilis (family Lauraceae), having dark green leaves and berries.
- (uncountable) Mahogany of species Swietenia macrophylla obtained from Campeche in Mexico.
- (rail transport) A bay platform.
- (nautical) Each of the spaces, port and starboard, between decks, forward of the bitts, in sailing warships.
- A horse of this color.
- A bank or dam to keep back water.
- An internal recess; a compartment or area surrounded on three sides.
- An opening in a wall, especially between two columns.
- A bay window.
- (geography) A body of water (especially the sea) contained by a concave shoreline.
- A section of ceiling delineated by supports such as rafters or vaulting ribs.
- A display unit in a shop or store, especially a large metal one
- (figuratively) A state of being obliged to face an antagonist or a difficulty, when escape has become impossible.
- (by extension) The climactic confrontation between hunting-dogs and their prey.
- (uncountable) Bay leaf, the leaf of this or certain other species of tree or shrub, used as a herb.
- A room for editing video footage or physical film.
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- (UK, nautical) A sailor's storage chest.
- (nautical) A small auxiliary engine.
- A domestic animal, Equus asinus asinus, similar to a horse.
- A stubborn person.
- (poker slang) A bad poker player.
- A fool.
- domestic beast of burden descended from the African wild ass; patient but stubborn
- the symbol of the Democratic Party; introduced in cartoons by Thomas Nast in 1874
noun
- (nautical) An empty space that acts as a protective barrier between two floors or bulkheads on a ship.
- (engineering) A temporary watertight enclosure used to create a dry foundation for building bridges and other structures over water.
- (introduced by dentist Sanford Christie Barnum, New York, in 1864, but after his century maintained only in other languages than English) A rubber dam to keep the teeth dry when operating upon them.
- large watertight chamber used for construction under water
noun
- A flat-bottomed vessel, of width similar to or greater than its height, used for storing or packing things, or for washing things in.
- a large open vessel for holding or storing liquids
- The contents or capacity of such a vessel.
- Any of various historically designated quantities of goods to be sold by the tub (butter, oysters, etc).
- (humorous or derogatory) Any structure shaped like a tub, such as a certain old form of pulpit, a short broad boat, etc.
- (mining) A box or bucket in which coal or ore is sent up a shaft.
- A small cask.
- (automotive) The bare body shell of an automobile (minus the doors, hood, trunk lid, fenders, etc.) which is lowered onto the chassis at the time of assembly, or in the case of modern unibody designed vehicles, is itself a monocoque around which the rest of the vehicle is built.
- (nautical, informal) A slow-moving craft.
- A bathtub.
- (slang) A corpulent or obese person.
- a relatively large open container that you fill with water and use to wash the body
- the amount that a tub will hold
verb
noun
- (nautical) A place at the front of the tweendecks of a merchant ship where provisions are stored.
- (historical, also figuratively) A building such as a hospital, or occasionally a ship, used to isolate sick people to prevent the spread of infectious diseases; a quarantine.
- (historical) A place reserved for people with infectious diseases (especially leprosy or plague) to live on a long-term basis.
- hospital for persons with infectious diseases (especially leprosy)
noun
- a storage pile accumulated for future use
- something kept back or saved for future use or a special purpose
- (specifically, military, weaponry) A supply of nuclear weapons kept by a country; a nuclear stockpile.
- (mining) A pile of coal or ore heaped up on the ground after it has been mined.
- A supply (especially a large one) of something kept for future use, specifically in case the cost of the item increases or if there a shortage.
verb
noun
- (nautical) the top surface of an enclosed space on a ship
- A compartment above the seats for stowing luggage in a passenger aircraft.
- (computer science) the disk space required for information that is not data but is used for location and timing
- a transparency for use with an overhead projector
- a hard return hitting the tennis ball above your head
- (computer science) the processing time required by a device prior to the execution of a command
- the expense of maintaining property (e.g., paying property taxes and utilities and insurance); it does not include depreciation or the cost of financing or income taxes
- (transport) A type of bridge, also commonly known as an overpass or flyover, which carries one form of traffic over another.
- (tennis) A smash.
- (countable, business, accounting) The items or classes of expense not directly assigned to goods or services provided.
- (uncountable, business) Wasted money.
- (juggling, by ellipsis) An overhead throw.
- (countable) A sheet of transparent material with an image used with an overhead projector; an overhead transparency.
- (countable) An overhead projector.
- (transport) The system of overhead wires used to power electric transport, such as streetcars, trains, or buses.
- (uncountable, business, accounting) The expense of a business not directly assigned to goods or services provided.
- (uncountable) Any cost or expenditure (monetary, time, effort or otherwise) incurred in a project or activity, which does not directly contribute to its progress or outcome.
- (computing) Data or steps of computation used only to facilitate the computations in the system and not directly related to the actual program code or data being processed.
- (nautical) The ceiling of any enclosed space below decks in a vessel.
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- Storage in a tank.
- (agriculture) Waste matter from tanks, especially the dried nitrogenous residue from tanks in which fat has been rendered, used as a fertilizer.
- The charge levied for storage in a tank.
- The amount that a tank (or tanks) can hold.
- the quantity contained in (or the capacity of) a tank or tanks
- the act of storing in tanks
- the charge for storing something in tanks
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- The contents of such a vessel.
- (baseball, slang) The home plate.
- A hollow place, as in a field.
- (in the plural) Tableware (including cutlery, etc, as well as crockery) that is to be or is being washed after being used to prepare, serve and eat a meal.
- A vessel such as a plate for holding or serving food, often flat with a depressed region in the middle.
- (slang) A sexually attractive person.
- (slang, uncountable) Gossip.
- (telecommunications) A type of antenna with a similar shape to a plate or bowl.
- (metonymic) A specific type of prepared food.
- the quantity that a dish will hold
- a piece of dishware normally used as a container for holding or serving food
- an activity that you like or at which you are superior
- directional antenna consisting of a parabolic reflector for microwave or radio frequency radiation
- a very attractive or seductive looking woman
- a particular item of prepared food
verb
- (transitive) To put in a dish or dishes; serve, usually food.
- (informal, slang) To gossip; to relay information about the personal situation of another.
- (transitive) To make concave, or depress in the middle, like a dish.
- (slang) To insult, speak ill of.
- make concave; shape like a dish
- provide (usually but not necessarily food)
verb
- place into a small compartment
- treat or classify according to a mental stereotype
- To put (letters, papers, or other items) into pigeonholes or small compartments; also, to arrange or sort (items) by putting into pigeonholes.
- To put aside (advice, a proposal, or other matter) for future consideration instead of acting on it immediately; to shelve.
- To arrange (items) for future reference or use.
- To construct pigeonholes (noun noun sense 1 or noun sense 3.1) in (a place); also, to subdivide (a place) into pigeonholes.
- To place (someone or something) into a notional category or class, especially in a way which makes unjustified assumptions or which is restrictive; to categorize, to classify, to label.
noun
- a small compartment
- a specific (often simplistic) category
- One of an array of open compartments for housing pigeons in a dovecote or pigeon loft.
- A compartment or cubicle in a room or other place, especially one which is (excessively) small.
- (historical, chiefly in the plural, also attributive) A form of stocks with openings for restraining a person's hands or feet; also, one of the openings in the device.
- A notional category or class into which someone or something is placed.
- One of an array of open compartments in a desk, set of shelves, etc., used for sorting or storing letters, papers, or other items.
- One of an array of open compartments for receiving mail and other messages at a college, office, etc.
- A small opening for looking or passing things through.
noun
- A storage space for public transport and other vehicles where they can be maintained and from which they are dispatched for service.
- (US) A bus station or railway station.
- (military) The portion of a regiment that remains at home when the rest go on foreign service.
- (military) A place for the storage, servicing, or upgrade of military hardware.
- (medicine) A bolus of medication that remains sequestered in some particular site within the body, often intradermally, from which it is gradually absorbed.
- A storage facility, in particular, a warehouse.
- (card games) The tableau: the area where cards can be arranged in solitaire or patience games.
- (military) A place where recruits are assembled before being sent to active units.
- station where transport vehicles load or unload passengers or goods
- a depository for goods
noun
- a cargo ship
- the second half of an inning; while the home team is at bat
- low-lying alluvial land near a river
- a depression forming the ground under a body of water
- the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
- the lowest part of anything
- the lower side of anything
- (baseball) The second half of an inning, the home team's turn at bat.
- (countable, colloquial, by extension) A sexual submissive.
- (heraldry, rare) A trundle or spindle of thread.
- Spirits poured into a glass before adding soda water.
- The bed of a body of water.
- An abyss.
- (particle physics) Ellipsis of bottom quark.
- (often figuratively) The lowest part of a container.
- (uncountable, British, slang) Character, reliability, staying power, dignity, integrity or sound judgment.
- The lowest part of anything.
- (euphemistic) The buttocks or anus.
- The fundamental part; a basic aspect.
- (usually in the plural) Low-lying land near a river with alluvial soil.
- (clothing, often plural) A garment worn to cover the body below the torso.
- (nautical) Certain parts of a vessel, particularly the cargo hold or the portion of the ship that is always underwater.
- The lowest or last position in a rank.
- (now chiefly US) Low-lying land; a valley or hollow.
- (music) The bass or baritone instruments of a band.
- The remotest or innermost part of something.
- (nautical) A cargo vessel, a ship.
- A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon.
- (countable, slang, especially LGBTQ slang) A person who has a receptive role or has a preference for that role during intercourse.
- (agriculture) The working portion of a moldboard-style plow.
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- strike the ground, as with a ship's bottom
- come to understand
- provide with a bottom or a seat
- (intransitive, especially LGBTQ slang) To take on the receptive role during intercourse.
- To fall to the lowest point.
- (transitive) To pour spirits into (a glass to be topped up with soda water).
- (mechanics, intransitive) To reach or strike against the bottom of something, so as to impede free action.
- (transitive, chiefly passive voice) To lie on the bottom of; to underlie, to lie beneath.
- (transitive) To reach the bottom of something.
- (transitive) To furnish (something) with a bottom.
- (transitive) To establish or found (something) on or upon.
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- A compartment or receptacle for receiving items.
- (baseball) The rectangle in which the batter stands.
- (music, slang) A musical instrument, especially one made from boxwood.
- (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.
- (geometry, by extension) A rectangular object in any number of dimensions.
- (slang) A cell used for solitary confinement.
- A cuboid container and its contents; as much as fills such a container.
- A cuboid space; a cuboid container, often with a hinged lid.
- (Australia) An evergreen tree of the genus Lophostemon (for example, box scrub, Brisbane box, brush box, pink box, or Queensland box, Lophostemon confertus).
- (juggling) A pattern usually performed with three balls where the movements of the balls make a boxlike shape.
- A compartment to sit inside in an auditorium, courtroom, theatre, or other building.
- The wood from a box tree: boxwood.
- A blow with the fist.
- (lacrosse, informal) Ellipsis of box lacrosse (“indoor form of lacrosse”).
- (rail transport) Ellipsis of signal box.
- (colloquial, chiefly UK, Ireland) Short for squeeze box (“accordion or concertina”)
- Ellipsis of horsebox (“container for transporting horses”).
- (cricket) A hard protector for the genitals worn inside the underpants by a batsman or close fielder.
- (colloquial, chiefly Southern US) A stringed instrument with a soundbox, especially a guitar.
- (automotive) Ellipsis of gearbox.
- A numbered receptacle at a newspaper office for anonymous replies to advertisements; see also box number.
- (slang, preceded by the) The television.
- Any of various evergreen shrubs or trees of genus Buxus, especially common box, European box, or boxwood (Buxus sempervirens) which is often used for making hedges and topiary.
- (figuratively) A predicament or trap.
- (slang) A prison cell.
- (aviation) A diamond-shaped flying formation consisting of four aircraft.
- A compartment (as a drawer) of an item of furniture used for storage, such as a cupboard, a shelf, etc.
- (automotive) Ellipsis of stashbox.
- (Australia) Various species of Eucalyptus trees are popularly called various kinds of boxes, on the basis of the nature of their wood, bark, or appearance for example, drooping box (Eucalyptus bicolor), shiny-leaved box (Eucalyptus tereticornis), black box, or ironbark box trees.
- A rectangle: an oblong or a square.
- (motor racing) An area in the pit where the car is repaired and refueled.
- (genetics) One of two specific regions in a promoter.
- (soccer) The penalty area.
- (computing, slang) A computer, or the case in which it is housed.
- The driver’s seat on a horse-drawn coach.
- (engineering) A cylindrical casing around the axle of a wheel, a bearing, a gland, etc.
- (slang) A gym dedicated to the CrossFit exercise program.
- A small rectangular shelter.
- (cricket) Synonym of gully (“a certain fielding position”).
- (euphemistic) A coffin.
- (slang, vulgar) The vagina.
- the quantity contained in a box
- separate partitioned area in a public place for a few people
- a rectangular drawing
- evergreen shrubs or small trees
- a (usually rectangular) container; may have a lid
- any one of several designated areas on a ball field where the batter or catcher or coaches are positioned
- private area in a theater or grandstand where a small group can watch the performance
- a blow with the hand (usually on the ear)
- the driver's seat on a coach
- a predicament from which a skillful or graceful escape is impossible
verb
- (transitive) To strike with the fists; to punch.
- (motor racing) To enter the pit.
- (transitive) To mix two containers of paint of similar colour to ensure that the color is identical.
- (transitive) Usually followed by in: to surround and enclose in a way that restricts movement; to corner, to hem in.
- (transitive, object-oriented programming) To place a value of a primitive type into a casing object.
- (transitive, boxing) To fight against (a person) in a boxing match.
- (transitive, agriculture) To make an incision or hole in (a tree) for the purpose of procuring the sap.
- (transitive, architecture) To enclose with boarding, lathing, etc., so as to conceal (for example, pipes) or to bring to a required form.
- (transitive) To place inside a box; to pack in one or more boxes.
- (transitive, engineering) To furnish (for example, the axle of a wheel) with a box.
- (intransitive, stative, boxing) To participate in boxing; to be a boxer.
- (transitive, graphic design, printing) To enclose (images, text, etc.) in a box.
- put into a box
- hit with the fist
- engage in a boxing match
noun
- A private room on a ship.
- A small room; an enclosed place.
- The interior of a boat, enclosed to create a small room, particularly for sleeping.
- (travel, aviation) The section of a passenger plane having the same class of service.
- The passenger area of an airplane.
- (India) A private office; particularly of a doctor, businessman, lawyer, or other professional.
- (rail transport, informal) A signal box.
- (informal) A chalet or lodge, especially one that can hold large groups of people.
- (US) A small dwelling characteristic of the frontier, especially when built from logs with simple tools and not constructed by professional builders, but by those who meant to live in it.
- a small house built of wood; usually in a wooded area
- small room on a ship or boat where people sleep
- the enclosed compartment of an aircraft or spacecraft where passengers are carried
verb
noun
- a hidden storage space (for money or provisions or weapons)
- a secret store of valuables or money
- (computer science) RAM memory that is set aside as a specialized buffer storage that is continually updated; used to optimize data transfers between system elements with different characteristics
- (geocaching) A container containing treasure in a global treasure-hunt game.
- Such a store of physical supplies, placed by humans or other animals for practical reasons.
- Misspelling of cachet.
- (computing) A fast temporary storage where recently or frequently used information is stored to avoid having to reload it from a slower storage medium.
verb
noun
- (nautical) A compartment on a ship in which the engine machinery is located.
- (rugby union) The pair of locks in a team.
- (sports) The midfield.
- (rugby league) The front row.
- (rail transport) The engine compartment of a diesel locomotive.
- (music) The rhythm section of a steel band.
- a room (as on a ship) in which the engine is located
noun
- A space or compartment, usually rented, that is used to store personal or business items.
- (furniture) A type of cupboard, typically with doors and shelves, used for organizing and storing various items within a home or office.
- (computing) A device or medium that stores data and information for long-term or permanent use.
noun
- a storage compartment for clothes and valuables; usually it has a lock
- a piece of furniture resembling a cupboard with doors and shelves and drawers; for storage or display
- persons appointed by a head of state to head executive departments of government and act as official advisers
- housing for electronic instruments, as radio or television
- An enclosure for mechanical or electrical equipment.
- (often capitalized) A collection of art or ethnographic objects.
- The upright assembly that houses a coin-operated arcade game, a cab.
- A cupboard.
- (figuratively) A source of valuable things; a storehouse.
- A museum display case.
- (Kentucky) A cabinet-level agency in the executive branch; that is, an agency headed by a member of the governor's cabinet.
- (politics, often capitalized) In parliamentary and some other systems of government, the group of ministers responsible for creating government policy and for overseeing the departments comprising the executive branch.
- A group of advisors to a government or business entity.
- A storage closet either separate from, or built into, a wall.
- (historical) A size of photograph, specifically one measuring 3⅞" by 5½".
- (dialectal, Rhode Island) Milkshake.
noun
- the space in a ship or aircraft for storing cargo
- a stronghold
- a state of being confined (usually for a short time)
- time during which some action is awaited
- the appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it
- a cell in a jail or prison
- power by which something or someone is affected or dominated
- the act of grasping
- understanding of the nature or meaning or quality or magnitude of something
- A fruit machine feature allowing one or more of the reels to remain fixed while the others spin.
- (exercise) An exercise involving holding a position for a set time
- The property of maintaining the shape of styled hair.
- An act or instance of holding.
- A place where animals are held for safety
- Something reserved or kept.
- (tennis) An instance of holding one's service game, as opposed to being broken.
- The queueing system on telephones and similar communication systems which maintains a connection when all lines are busy.
- The ability to persist.
- An order that something is to be reserved or delayed, limiting or preventing how it can be dealt with.
- (baseball) A statistic awarded to a relief pitcher who is not still pitching at the end of the game and who records at least one out and maintains a lead for his team.
- (gambling) The percentage the house wins on a gamble, the house or bookmaker's hold.
- (gambling) The wager amount, the total hold.
- (aviation) A region of airspace reserved for aircraft being kept in a holding pattern.
- A grasp or grip.
- Power over someone or something.
- The part of an object one is intended to grasp, or anything one can use for grasping with hands or feet.
- (nautical, aviation) The cargo area of a ship or aircraft (often holds or cargo hold).
- (wrestling, self-defense) A position or grip used to control the opponent.
verb
- secure and keep for possible future use or application
- keep from exhaling or expelling
- resist or confront with resistance
- be the physical support of; carry the weight of
- maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings)
- aim, point, or direct
- support or hold in a certain manner
- have room for; hold without crowding
- have rightfully; of rights, titles, and offices
- remain committed to
- be pertinent or relevant or applicable
- contain or hold; have within
- be valid, applicable, or true
- be in accord; be in agreement
- have or possess, either in a concrete or an abstract sense
- hold the attention of
- have or hold in one's hands or grip
- assert or affirm
- keep from departing
- to close within bounds, or otherwise limit or deprive of free movement
- remain in a certain state, position, or condition
- keep in mind or convey as a conviction or view
- drink alcohol without showing ill effects
- lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits
- cause to come to an abrupt stop
- protect against a challenge or attack
- take and maintain control over, often by violent means
- cause to continue in a certain state, position, or activity
- bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted
- arrange for and reserve (something for someone else) in advance
- declare to be
- cover as for protection against noise or smell
- stop dealing with
- organize or be responsible for
- have as a major characteristic
- be capable of holding or containing
- (transitive) To impose restraint upon; to limit in motion or action; to bind legally or morally; to confine; to restrain.
- To maintain in being or action; to carry on; to prosecute, as a course of conduct or an argument; to continue; to sustain.
- (imperative) In a food or drink order at an informal restaurant etc., requesting that a component normally included in that order be omitted.
- To organise an event or meeting (usually in passive voice).
- (transitive) To reserve.
- (transitive) To bear, carry, or manage.
- (transitive) To have and keep possession of something.
- (transitive) To contain or store.
- (intransitive, copulative) To keep oneself in a particular state.
- (slang, intransitive) To be in possession of illicit drugs for sale.
- (intransitive, chiefly imperative) Not to move; to halt; to stop.
- (transitive) To bind (someone) to a consequence of his or her actions.
- To accept, as an opinion; to be the adherent of, openly or privately; to persist in, as a purpose; to maintain; to sustain.
- (transitive) To detain.
- (transitive) To maintain, to consider, to opine.
- To take place, to occur.
- To remain continent; to control an excretory bodily function.
- (intransitive) Not to give way; not to part or become separated; to remain unbroken or unsubdued.
- (tennis, ambitransitive) To win one's own service game.
- (transitive) To grasp or grip.
- (intransitive, copulative) To be or remain valid; to apply (usually in the third person).
- (transitive) To cause to wait or delay.
noun
- A storage compartment on a ship, not necessarily one that can be locked.
- a storage compartment for clothes and valuables; usually it has a lock
- (rare) One who locks something.
- (Louisiana) A closet.
- (historical) A customs officer who guards a warehouse.
- (automotive) A locking differential.
- A type of storage compartment with a lock, usually used to store personal possessions for public use, such as in schools, railway stations, place of work, gyms, sports centers.
- A lockable cubicle.
- a fastener that locks or closes
- a trunk for storing personal possessions; usually kept at the foot of a bed (as in a barracks)
noun
adj
adv
verb
noun
- (nautical) A place or room for the stowage of cargo in a ship.
- A disorganized collection of miscellaneous objects; a jumble.
- A thorough search, usually resulting in disorder.
- (nautical) The act of stowing cargo; the pulling and moving about of packages incident to close stowage.
- a jumble of things to be given away
- a thorough search for something (often causing disorder or confusion)
verb
- (transitive) To search something thoroughly and with disregard for the way in which things were arranged.
- (transitive, nautical) To search a vessel for smuggled goods.
- (transitive, nautical) To arrange (cargo, goods, etc.) in the hold of a ship; to move or rearrange such goods.
- (intransitive) To hastily search for something in a confined space and among many items by carelessly turning things over or pushing things aside; dig through carelessly.
- search haphazardly
noun
- a small locker at the stern of a boat or between decks of a ship
- (glassblowing) A hole in the side of a furnace used to heat glass held on a metal rod.
- The stewards' mess on a passenger liner.
- (mining) A hole in a mineshaft where an orebody is mined upwards until it breaks through the surface into the open air.
- A generally untidy place.
- (military, slang) A military trench.
- The stokehold on a coal-burning tramp steamer.
- (Canada, fishing) An especially good place to fish, a particularly rich fishing spot.
- A bell-mouth spillway; a spillway (a structure in the reservoir above a dam that allows overflowing water to be released in a controlled fashion) that is shaped like an upside-down bell, thereby giving the appearance of a hole in the surface of the water.
- (Scotland and Northern England) A deep built-in cupboard under the eaves or stairs of a house used for general storage, particularly of unrelated or unwanted items stored in some disorder.
- (sexuality, slang) A hole in a screen or wall big enough to allow an erect penis to be stuck through, made to facilitate anonymous sex with another person.
- (mining) An excavation into the sea floor designed to protect the wellhead equipment installed at the surface of a petroleum well from icebergs or pack ice.
verb
noun
- a small locker at the stern of a boat or between decks of a ship
- (by extension, nautical) A place at the front of the tweendecks of a merchant ship where provisions are stored.
- hospital for persons with infectious diseases (especially leprosy)
- (also figuratively) A building such as a hospital, or occasionally a ship, used to temporarily isolate sick people to prevent the spread of infectious diseases; a quarantine.
- A place reserved for people with infectious diseases (especially leprosy or plague) to live on a long-term basis.
noun
- An allocated space or berth in a boat or ship.
- Temporary lodgings in a private residence, such as is organised for members of a visiting sports team.
- A short piece of wood, especially one used as firewood.
- A short informal letter.
- (figurative) Berth; position.
- (architecture) An ornament in Norman work, resembling a billet of wood, either square or round.
- A place where a soldier is assigned to lodge.
- A written order to quarter soldiers.
- A sealed ticket for a draw or lottery.
- A loop that receives the end of a buckled strap.
- (heraldry) A rectangle used as a charge on an escutcheon.
- A short cutting of sugar cane produced by a harvester or used for planting.
- (metallurgy) A semi-finished length of metal.
- (saddlery) A strap that enters a buckle.
- Alternative form of billard (“coalfish”).
- lodging for military personnel (especially in a private home)
- a short personal letter
verb
noun
- an enclosed compartment from which a vessel can be navigated
- one's area of interest or expertise
- (archaeology) A prehistoric structure from the Iron Age found in Scotland, characteristically including an outer wall within which a circle of stone piers (resembling the spokes of a wheel) form the basis for lintel arches supporting corbelled roofing with a hearth at the hub.
- (Canada, US, baseball, by extension from sense 1.2) A pitch location which is favourable to the hitter.
- A building or other structure containing a (large) wheel, such as the water wheel of a mill.
- An enclosed compartment on the deck of a vessel such as a fishing boat, originally housing its helm or steering wheel, from which it may be navigated; on a larger vessel it is the bridge.
- The partially enclosed structure above and around a wheel of an automobile, typically partly formed by a portion of a fender panel that has been extended outward beyond the plane of the rest of the panel.
- (Canada, US, figuratively) A person's area of authority or expertise.
- The enclosed structure around the paddlewheel of a steamboat.
- (Canada, US, figuratively) A set of skills necessitated by a situation.
noun
- the galley or pantry of a small ship
- (nautical) A cabin, for the use of the captain, in the after part of a sailing ship under the poop deck.
- A coalfish (Pollachius virens).
- A lever mounted on a tripod for lifting stones, leveling up railroad ties, etc.
- (Scotland, Durham, Northumberland, historical) A donkey, especially one driven by a huckster or greengrocer.
- A small cupboard or closet.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang) A close friend or buddy.
- (UK, mining) A pony that works in a mine.
noun
- a storehouse (as a compartment on a warship) where weapons and ammunition are stored
- (nautical) The portion of a warship where munitions are stored.
- a metal frame or container holding cartridges; can be inserted into an automatic gun
- a light-tight supply chamber holding the film and supplying it for exposure as required
- a periodic publication containing pictures and stories and articles of interest to those who purchase it or subscribe to it
- a business firm that publishes magazines
- product consisting of a paperback periodic publication as a physical object
- (broadcasting) A radio or television show where each episode comprises a variety of features or segments, akin to the format of a print magazine.
- (historical, television, UK, Ireland) A collection of Teletext pages.
- (Louisiana) A store, or shop, where goods are kept for sale.
- A reservoir or supply chamber for a stove, battery, camera, typesetting machine, or other apparatus.
- A nonacademic, periodical publication which consists of articles by multiple writers on some broad topic or theme.
- A chamber in or attachable to a firearm enabling multiple rounds of ammunition to be fed into the firearm.
- (military) An ammunition storehouse.
noun
- a compartment on a ship between decks; often used as a hospital
- the sound of a hound on the scent
- an indentation of a shoreline larger than a cove but smaller than a gulf
- a horse of a moderate reddish-brown color
- a compartment in an aircraft used for some specific purpose
- a small recess opening off a larger room
- small Mediterranean evergreen tree with small blackish berries and glossy aromatic leaves used for flavoring in cooking; also used by ancient Greeks to crown victors
- (US, dialect) A tract covered with bay trees.
- The excited howling of dogs when hunting or being attacked.
- A brown colour/color of the coat of some horses.
- (countable) A tree or shrub of species Laurus nobilis (family Lauraceae), having dark green leaves and berries.
- (uncountable) Mahogany of species Swietenia macrophylla obtained from Campeche in Mexico.
- (rail transport) A bay platform.
- (nautical) Each of the spaces, port and starboard, between decks, forward of the bitts, in sailing warships.
- A horse of this color.
- A bank or dam to keep back water.
- An internal recess; a compartment or area surrounded on three sides.
- An opening in a wall, especially between two columns.
- A bay window.
- (geography) A body of water (especially the sea) contained by a concave shoreline.
- A section of ceiling delineated by supports such as rafters or vaulting ribs.
- A display unit in a shop or store, especially a large metal one
- (figuratively) A state of being obliged to face an antagonist or a difficulty, when escape has become impossible.
- (by extension) The climactic confrontation between hunting-dogs and their prey.
- (uncountable) Bay leaf, the leaf of this or certain other species of tree or shrub, used as a herb.
- A room for editing video footage or physical film.
adj
verb
noun
- (UK, nautical) A sailor's storage chest.
- (nautical) A small auxiliary engine.
- A domestic animal, Equus asinus asinus, similar to a horse.
- A stubborn person.
- (poker slang) A bad poker player.
- A fool.
- domestic beast of burden descended from the African wild ass; patient but stubborn
- the symbol of the Democratic Party; introduced in cartoons by Thomas Nast in 1874
noun
- (nautical) An empty space that acts as a protective barrier between two floors or bulkheads on a ship.
- (engineering) A temporary watertight enclosure used to create a dry foundation for building bridges and other structures over water.
- (introduced by dentist Sanford Christie Barnum, New York, in 1864, but after his century maintained only in other languages than English) A rubber dam to keep the teeth dry when operating upon them.
- large watertight chamber used for construction under water
noun
- A flat-bottomed vessel, of width similar to or greater than its height, used for storing or packing things, or for washing things in.
- a large open vessel for holding or storing liquids
- The contents or capacity of such a vessel.
- Any of various historically designated quantities of goods to be sold by the tub (butter, oysters, etc).
- (humorous or derogatory) Any structure shaped like a tub, such as a certain old form of pulpit, a short broad boat, etc.
- (mining) A box or bucket in which coal or ore is sent up a shaft.
- A small cask.
- (automotive) The bare body shell of an automobile (minus the doors, hood, trunk lid, fenders, etc.) which is lowered onto the chassis at the time of assembly, or in the case of modern unibody designed vehicles, is itself a monocoque around which the rest of the vehicle is built.
- (nautical, informal) A slow-moving craft.
- A bathtub.
- (slang) A corpulent or obese person.
- a relatively large open container that you fill with water and use to wash the body
- the amount that a tub will hold
verb
noun
- (nautical) A place at the front of the tweendecks of a merchant ship where provisions are stored.
- (historical, also figuratively) A building such as a hospital, or occasionally a ship, used to isolate sick people to prevent the spread of infectious diseases; a quarantine.
- (historical) A place reserved for people with infectious diseases (especially leprosy or plague) to live on a long-term basis.
- hospital for persons with infectious diseases (especially leprosy)
noun
- a storage pile accumulated for future use
- something kept back or saved for future use or a special purpose
- (specifically, military, weaponry) A supply of nuclear weapons kept by a country; a nuclear stockpile.
- (mining) A pile of coal or ore heaped up on the ground after it has been mined.
- A supply (especially a large one) of something kept for future use, specifically in case the cost of the item increases or if there a shortage.
verb
noun
- (nautical) the top surface of an enclosed space on a ship
- A compartment above the seats for stowing luggage in a passenger aircraft.
- (computer science) the disk space required for information that is not data but is used for location and timing
- a transparency for use with an overhead projector
- a hard return hitting the tennis ball above your head
- (computer science) the processing time required by a device prior to the execution of a command
- the expense of maintaining property (e.g., paying property taxes and utilities and insurance); it does not include depreciation or the cost of financing or income taxes
- (transport) A type of bridge, also commonly known as an overpass or flyover, which carries one form of traffic over another.
- (tennis) A smash.
- (countable, business, accounting) The items or classes of expense not directly assigned to goods or services provided.
- (uncountable, business) Wasted money.
- (juggling, by ellipsis) An overhead throw.
- (countable) A sheet of transparent material with an image used with an overhead projector; an overhead transparency.
- (countable) An overhead projector.
- (transport) The system of overhead wires used to power electric transport, such as streetcars, trains, or buses.
- (uncountable, business, accounting) The expense of a business not directly assigned to goods or services provided.
- (uncountable) Any cost or expenditure (monetary, time, effort or otherwise) incurred in a project or activity, which does not directly contribute to its progress or outcome.
- (computing) Data or steps of computation used only to facilitate the computations in the system and not directly related to the actual program code or data being processed.
- (nautical) The ceiling of any enclosed space below decks in a vessel.
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adv
prep
noun
- Storage in a tank.
- (agriculture) Waste matter from tanks, especially the dried nitrogenous residue from tanks in which fat has been rendered, used as a fertilizer.
- The charge levied for storage in a tank.
- The amount that a tank (or tanks) can hold.
- the quantity contained in (or the capacity of) a tank or tanks
- the act of storing in tanks
- the charge for storing something in tanks
noun
adj
verb
noun
- The contents of such a vessel.
- (baseball, slang) The home plate.
- A hollow place, as in a field.
- (in the plural) Tableware (including cutlery, etc, as well as crockery) that is to be or is being washed after being used to prepare, serve and eat a meal.
- A vessel such as a plate for holding or serving food, often flat with a depressed region in the middle.
- (slang) A sexually attractive person.
- (slang, uncountable) Gossip.
- (telecommunications) A type of antenna with a similar shape to a plate or bowl.
- (metonymic) A specific type of prepared food.
- the quantity that a dish will hold
- a piece of dishware normally used as a container for holding or serving food
- an activity that you like or at which you are superior
- directional antenna consisting of a parabolic reflector for microwave or radio frequency radiation
- a very attractive or seductive looking woman
- a particular item of prepared food
verb
- (transitive) To put in a dish or dishes; serve, usually food.
- (informal, slang) To gossip; to relay information about the personal situation of another.
- (transitive) To make concave, or depress in the middle, like a dish.
- (slang) To insult, speak ill of.
- make concave; shape like a dish
- provide (usually but not necessarily food)
noun
- A storage space for public transport and other vehicles where they can be maintained and from which they are dispatched for service.
- (US) A bus station or railway station.
- (military) The portion of a regiment that remains at home when the rest go on foreign service.
- (military) A place for the storage, servicing, or upgrade of military hardware.
- (medicine) A bolus of medication that remains sequestered in some particular site within the body, often intradermally, from which it is gradually absorbed.
- A storage facility, in particular, a warehouse.
- (card games) The tableau: the area where cards can be arranged in solitaire or patience games.
- (military) A place where recruits are assembled before being sent to active units.
- station where transport vehicles load or unload passengers or goods
- a depository for goods
noun
- a cargo ship
- the second half of an inning; while the home team is at bat
- low-lying alluvial land near a river
- a depression forming the ground under a body of water
- the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
- the lowest part of anything
- the lower side of anything
- (baseball) The second half of an inning, the home team's turn at bat.
- (countable, colloquial, by extension) A sexual submissive.
- (heraldry, rare) A trundle or spindle of thread.
- Spirits poured into a glass before adding soda water.
- The bed of a body of water.
- An abyss.
- (particle physics) Ellipsis of bottom quark.
- (often figuratively) The lowest part of a container.
- (uncountable, British, slang) Character, reliability, staying power, dignity, integrity or sound judgment.
- The lowest part of anything.
- (euphemistic) The buttocks or anus.
- The fundamental part; a basic aspect.
- (usually in the plural) Low-lying land near a river with alluvial soil.
- (clothing, often plural) A garment worn to cover the body below the torso.
- (nautical) Certain parts of a vessel, particularly the cargo hold or the portion of the ship that is always underwater.
- The lowest or last position in a rank.
- (now chiefly US) Low-lying land; a valley or hollow.
- (music) The bass or baritone instruments of a band.
- The remotest or innermost part of something.
- (nautical) A cargo vessel, a ship.
- A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon.
- (countable, slang, especially LGBTQ slang) A person who has a receptive role or has a preference for that role during intercourse.
- (agriculture) The working portion of a moldboard-style plow.
adj
verb
- strike the ground, as with a ship's bottom
- come to understand
- provide with a bottom or a seat
- (intransitive, especially LGBTQ slang) To take on the receptive role during intercourse.
- To fall to the lowest point.
- (transitive) To pour spirits into (a glass to be topped up with soda water).
- (mechanics, intransitive) To reach or strike against the bottom of something, so as to impede free action.
- (transitive, chiefly passive voice) To lie on the bottom of; to underlie, to lie beneath.
- (transitive) To reach the bottom of something.
- (transitive) To furnish (something) with a bottom.
- (transitive) To establish or found (something) on or upon.
noun
adv
noun
- A compartment or receptacle for receiving items.
- (baseball) The rectangle in which the batter stands.
- (music, slang) A musical instrument, especially one made from boxwood.
- (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.
- (geometry, by extension) A rectangular object in any number of dimensions.
- (slang) A cell used for solitary confinement.
- A cuboid container and its contents; as much as fills such a container.
- A cuboid space; a cuboid container, often with a hinged lid.
- (Australia) An evergreen tree of the genus Lophostemon (for example, box scrub, Brisbane box, brush box, pink box, or Queensland box, Lophostemon confertus).
- (juggling) A pattern usually performed with three balls where the movements of the balls make a boxlike shape.
- A compartment to sit inside in an auditorium, courtroom, theatre, or other building.
- The wood from a box tree: boxwood.
- A blow with the fist.
- (lacrosse, informal) Ellipsis of box lacrosse (“indoor form of lacrosse”).
- (rail transport) Ellipsis of signal box.
- (colloquial, chiefly UK, Ireland) Short for squeeze box (“accordion or concertina”)
- Ellipsis of horsebox (“container for transporting horses”).
- (cricket) A hard protector for the genitals worn inside the underpants by a batsman or close fielder.
- (colloquial, chiefly Southern US) A stringed instrument with a soundbox, especially a guitar.
- (automotive) Ellipsis of gearbox.
- A numbered receptacle at a newspaper office for anonymous replies to advertisements; see also box number.
- (slang, preceded by the) The television.
- Any of various evergreen shrubs or trees of genus Buxus, especially common box, European box, or boxwood (Buxus sempervirens) which is often used for making hedges and topiary.
- (figuratively) A predicament or trap.
- (slang) A prison cell.
- (aviation) A diamond-shaped flying formation consisting of four aircraft.
- A compartment (as a drawer) of an item of furniture used for storage, such as a cupboard, a shelf, etc.
- (automotive) Ellipsis of stashbox.
- (Australia) Various species of Eucalyptus trees are popularly called various kinds of boxes, on the basis of the nature of their wood, bark, or appearance for example, drooping box (Eucalyptus bicolor), shiny-leaved box (Eucalyptus tereticornis), black box, or ironbark box trees.
- A rectangle: an oblong or a square.
- (motor racing) An area in the pit where the car is repaired and refueled.
- (genetics) One of two specific regions in a promoter.
- (soccer) The penalty area.
- (computing, slang) A computer, or the case in which it is housed.
- The driver’s seat on a horse-drawn coach.
- (engineering) A cylindrical casing around the axle of a wheel, a bearing, a gland, etc.
- (slang) A gym dedicated to the CrossFit exercise program.
- A small rectangular shelter.
- (cricket) Synonym of gully (“a certain fielding position”).
- (euphemistic) A coffin.
- (slang, vulgar) The vagina.
- the quantity contained in a box
- separate partitioned area in a public place for a few people
- a rectangular drawing
- evergreen shrubs or small trees
- a (usually rectangular) container; may have a lid
- any one of several designated areas on a ball field where the batter or catcher or coaches are positioned
- private area in a theater or grandstand where a small group can watch the performance
- a blow with the hand (usually on the ear)
- the driver's seat on a coach
- a predicament from which a skillful or graceful escape is impossible
verb
- (transitive) To strike with the fists; to punch.
- (motor racing) To enter the pit.
- (transitive) To mix two containers of paint of similar colour to ensure that the color is identical.
- (transitive) Usually followed by in: to surround and enclose in a way that restricts movement; to corner, to hem in.
- (transitive, object-oriented programming) To place a value of a primitive type into a casing object.
- (transitive, boxing) To fight against (a person) in a boxing match.
- (transitive, agriculture) To make an incision or hole in (a tree) for the purpose of procuring the sap.
- (transitive, architecture) To enclose with boarding, lathing, etc., so as to conceal (for example, pipes) or to bring to a required form.
- (transitive) To place inside a box; to pack in one or more boxes.
- (transitive, engineering) To furnish (for example, the axle of a wheel) with a box.
- (intransitive, stative, boxing) To participate in boxing; to be a boxer.
- (transitive, graphic design, printing) To enclose (images, text, etc.) in a box.
- put into a box
- hit with the fist
- engage in a boxing match
noun
- A private room on a ship.
- A small room; an enclosed place.
- The interior of a boat, enclosed to create a small room, particularly for sleeping.
- (travel, aviation) The section of a passenger plane having the same class of service.
- The passenger area of an airplane.
- (India) A private office; particularly of a doctor, businessman, lawyer, or other professional.
- (rail transport, informal) A signal box.
- (informal) A chalet or lodge, especially one that can hold large groups of people.
- (US) A small dwelling characteristic of the frontier, especially when built from logs with simple tools and not constructed by professional builders, but by those who meant to live in it.
- a small house built of wood; usually in a wooded area
- small room on a ship or boat where people sleep
- the enclosed compartment of an aircraft or spacecraft where passengers are carried
verb
noun
- a hidden storage space (for money or provisions or weapons)
- a secret store of valuables or money
- (computer science) RAM memory that is set aside as a specialized buffer storage that is continually updated; used to optimize data transfers between system elements with different characteristics
- (geocaching) A container containing treasure in a global treasure-hunt game.
- Such a store of physical supplies, placed by humans or other animals for practical reasons.
- Misspelling of cachet.
- (computing) A fast temporary storage where recently or frequently used information is stored to avoid having to reload it from a slower storage medium.
verb
noun
- (nautical) A compartment on a ship in which the engine machinery is located.
- (rugby union) The pair of locks in a team.
- (sports) The midfield.
- (rugby league) The front row.
- (rail transport) The engine compartment of a diesel locomotive.
- (music) The rhythm section of a steel band.
- a room (as on a ship) in which the engine is located
noun
- A space or compartment, usually rented, that is used to store personal or business items.
- (furniture) A type of cupboard, typically with doors and shelves, used for organizing and storing various items within a home or office.
- (computing) A device or medium that stores data and information for long-term or permanent use.
noun
- a storage compartment for clothes and valuables; usually it has a lock
- a piece of furniture resembling a cupboard with doors and shelves and drawers; for storage or display
- persons appointed by a head of state to head executive departments of government and act as official advisers
- housing for electronic instruments, as radio or television
- An enclosure for mechanical or electrical equipment.
- (often capitalized) A collection of art or ethnographic objects.
- The upright assembly that houses a coin-operated arcade game, a cab.
- A cupboard.
- (figuratively) A source of valuable things; a storehouse.
- A museum display case.
- (Kentucky) A cabinet-level agency in the executive branch; that is, an agency headed by a member of the governor's cabinet.
- (politics, often capitalized) In parliamentary and some other systems of government, the group of ministers responsible for creating government policy and for overseeing the departments comprising the executive branch.
- A group of advisors to a government or business entity.
- A storage closet either separate from, or built into, a wall.
- (historical) A size of photograph, specifically one measuring 3⅞" by 5½".
- (dialectal, Rhode Island) Milkshake.
verb
- place into a small compartment
- treat or classify according to a mental stereotype
- To put (letters, papers, or other items) into pigeonholes or small compartments; also, to arrange or sort (items) by putting into pigeonholes.
- To put aside (advice, a proposal, or other matter) for future consideration instead of acting on it immediately; to shelve.
- To arrange (items) for future reference or use.
- To construct pigeonholes (noun noun sense 1 or noun sense 3.1) in (a place); also, to subdivide (a place) into pigeonholes.
- To place (someone or something) into a notional category or class, especially in a way which makes unjustified assumptions or which is restrictive; to categorize, to classify, to label.
noun
- a small compartment
- a specific (often simplistic) category
- One of an array of open compartments for housing pigeons in a dovecote or pigeon loft.
- A compartment or cubicle in a room or other place, especially one which is (excessively) small.
- (historical, chiefly in the plural, also attributive) A form of stocks with openings for restraining a person's hands or feet; also, one of the openings in the device.
- A notional category or class into which someone or something is placed.
- One of an array of open compartments in a desk, set of shelves, etc., used for sorting or storing letters, papers, or other items.
- One of an array of open compartments for receiving mail and other messages at a college, office, etc.
- A small opening for looking or passing things through.