English words for 'Alternative form of lunchbox.'
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noun
- (especially Asia) A lunch packaged in a disposable box to be taken away to eat.
- A container for transporting meals, especially lunch.
- (computing, slang) A luggable; an early laptop computer, usually a unit with a handle and a fold-out keyboard.
- A cocktail made with beer, orange juice, and almond liqueur.
- (slang, idiomatic) A person seen as weak and disposable who could easily be sacrificed without much guilt or afterthought.
- (slang, UK) The penis when enclosed in clothing.
- (slang) A simple portable transmitter sometimes used in phreaking.
noun
- (also attributive) A Japanese takeaway lunch served in a box, often with the food arranged into an elaborate design.
- Synonym of bento box (“a partitioned, traditionally lacquered, lunchbox in which a Japanese takeaway lunch is served”).
- (Singapore, by extension) A generic meal packed in a disposable bento box.
- (graphical user interface) A menu icon of nine squares in a grid.
- (graphical user interface) A layout consisting of cards arranged in a modular, irregularly partitioned grid.
verb
noun
verb
- (informal, ambitransitive) To carry one's packed lunch from home, either literally or figuratively in a brown paper bag or a lunchbox, rather than purchase it from a cafeteria or restaurant.
- (informal, ambitransitive) To consume alcohol in public from the bottle or can, while it is held concealed inside a brown paper bag, so as to avoid attention e.g. from the police.
- (informal, agriculture, ambitransitive) To plant seed saved from one's own harvest, as opposed to buying new seed from a seed company.
noun
noun
- A box with compartments for storing eating utensils, silverware etc.
- A small cafeteria or snack bar, especially one in a military establishment, school, or place of work.
- (Hong Kong, India, Malaysia, Australia, Philippines) A cafeteria in a school or place of work.
- A military mess kit.
- A temporary or mobile café used in an emergency or on a film location etc.
- Goods purchased from a prison canteen.
- A water bottle, flask, or other vessel, typically used by a soldier or camper as a bottle for carrying water or liquor for drink.
- a recreation room in an institution
- sells food and personal items to personnel at an institution or school or camp etc.
- a restaurant outside; often for soldiers or policemen
- a flask for carrying water; used by soldiers or travelers
- restaurant in a factory; where workers can eat
noun
noun
noun
- Something that is composed of multiple boxes.
- A power strip.
- The practice of playing an online game with multiple accounts simultaneously.
- One of a set of multiple ballot boxes, one for each candidate.
- A box with several compartments.
- An electronic device with multiple sites where components can be plugged in.
adj
adj
- Packed into a box or boxes.
- In bridge and other card games if the cards in a pack are reversed face-up and face-down then the pack is said to be boxed.
- Of domesticated animals, discrete flocks or herds having become mixed, either accidentally or deliberately. (Aust. OED)
- enclosed in or set off by a border or box
- enclosed in or as if in a box
verb
noun
- In food service, the closing box (usually styrofoam but sometimes cardboard) given to consumers with takeout food.
- (music) An amphitheater, especially an outdoor amphitheater; the semi-circular acoustic backdrop behind and above the performers.
- A hinged case for a video tape, cassette tape, or video game cartridge.
- A dredging bucket with hinges like the shell of a clam.
- The shell of a clam.
- Any object that, in (literal or figurative) resemblance to the shell of a clam, has a hinge on one edge and two surfaces that close together.
- (often attributive) Any object with some other resemblance to either one or both halves of the shell of a clam.
- a dredging bucket with hinges like the shell of a clam
- the shell of a clam
verb
- To compress or flatten underwater debris so as to avoid blocking a channel.
- To dig out by means of a clamshell (dredging bucket).
- (manufacturing) To deform a die in a shape resembling the shell of a clam, as a result of uneven extrusion pressure.
- (ambitransitive) To open or close by means of a hinge, similar to the way a clamshell opens and closes.
noun
- A flat tray which can be used as a table.
- A supply of food or entertainment.
- The board or table-like furniture on which a game is played, such as snooker, billiards, or draughts.
- A group of people at a table, for example, for a meal, meeting or game.
- A collection of arithmetic calculations arranged in a table, such as multiplications in a multiplication table.
- A matrix or grid of data arranged in rows and columns.
- A wide, flat obstacle for a horse to jump over.
- (waitstaff, metonymic) A group of diners at a given table or tables.
- A flat gravestone supported on pillars.
- (metonymic) A booth or display at an event such as an exposition or fair.
- (computing, chiefly databases) A lookup table, most often a set of vectors.
- (music) The top of a stringed instrument, particularly a member of the violin family: the side of the instrument against which the strings vibrate.
- The flat topmost facet of a cut diamond.
- (poker, metonymic) The lineup of players at a given table.
- (roleplaying games, metonymic) A group of players meeting regularly to play a campaign.
- (backgammon) One half of a backgammon board, which is divided into the inner and outer table.
- An item of furniture with a flat top surface raised above the ground, usually on one or more legs.
- A service of Holy Communion.
- (sports) A visual representation of a classification of teams or individuals based on their success over a predetermined period.
- a piece of furniture having a smooth flat top that is usually supported by one or more vertical legs
- flat tableland with steep edges
- food or meals in general
- a piece of furniture with tableware for a meal laid out on it
- a company of people assembled at a table for a meal or game
- a set of data arranged in rows and columns
verb
- To put on a table.
- (metonymic) To represent a company or organization (at an exposition, fair, etc.), usually at a booth or display.
- (non-US) To put on the table of a commission or legislative assembly; to propose for formal discussion or consideration, to put on the agenda.
- (poker, colloquial) To show one's cards face-up, especially during showdown.
- To tabulate; to put into a table or grid.
- (nautical) To make board hems in the skirts and bottoms of (sails) in order to strengthen them in the part attached to the bolt-rope.
- (chiefly US) To remove from the agenda, to postpone dealing with; to shelve (to indefinitely postpone consideration or discussion of something).
- hold back to a later time
- arrange or enter in tabular form
noun
adj
- (music) Of or relating to a British music genre of the 1980s and 1990s, influenced by Madchester and psychedelia and associated with baggy clothing.
- Of clothing, very loose-fitting, so as to hang away from the body.
- (figurative) Of writing, etc.: overwrought; flabby; having too much padding.
- not fitting closely; hanging loosely
noun
- (especially Asia) A lunch packaged in a disposable box to be taken away to eat.
- A container for transporting meals, especially lunch.
- (computing, slang) A luggable; an early laptop computer, usually a unit with a handle and a fold-out keyboard.
- A cocktail made with beer, orange juice, and almond liqueur.
- (slang, idiomatic) A person seen as weak and disposable who could easily be sacrificed without much guilt or afterthought.
- (slang, UK) The penis when enclosed in clothing.
- (slang) A simple portable transmitter sometimes used in phreaking.
noun
- (also attributive) A Japanese takeaway lunch served in a box, often with the food arranged into an elaborate design.
- Synonym of bento box (“a partitioned, traditionally lacquered, lunchbox in which a Japanese takeaway lunch is served”).
- (Singapore, by extension) A generic meal packed in a disposable bento box.
- (graphical user interface) A menu icon of nine squares in a grid.
- (graphical user interface) A layout consisting of cards arranged in a modular, irregularly partitioned grid.
noun
- A box with compartments for storing eating utensils, silverware etc.
- A small cafeteria or snack bar, especially one in a military establishment, school, or place of work.
- (Hong Kong, India, Malaysia, Australia, Philippines) A cafeteria in a school or place of work.
- A military mess kit.
- A temporary or mobile café used in an emergency or on a film location etc.
- Goods purchased from a prison canteen.
- A water bottle, flask, or other vessel, typically used by a soldier or camper as a bottle for carrying water or liquor for drink.
- a recreation room in an institution
- sells food and personal items to personnel at an institution or school or camp etc.
- a restaurant outside; often for soldiers or policemen
- a flask for carrying water; used by soldiers or travelers
- restaurant in a factory; where workers can eat
noun
noun
noun
- Something that is composed of multiple boxes.
- A power strip.
- The practice of playing an online game with multiple accounts simultaneously.
- One of a set of multiple ballot boxes, one for each candidate.
- A box with several compartments.
- An electronic device with multiple sites where components can be plugged in.
adj
noun
- In food service, the closing box (usually styrofoam but sometimes cardboard) given to consumers with takeout food.
- (music) An amphitheater, especially an outdoor amphitheater; the semi-circular acoustic backdrop behind and above the performers.
- A hinged case for a video tape, cassette tape, or video game cartridge.
- A dredging bucket with hinges like the shell of a clam.
- The shell of a clam.
- Any object that, in (literal or figurative) resemblance to the shell of a clam, has a hinge on one edge and two surfaces that close together.
- (often attributive) Any object with some other resemblance to either one or both halves of the shell of a clam.
- a dredging bucket with hinges like the shell of a clam
- the shell of a clam
verb
- To compress or flatten underwater debris so as to avoid blocking a channel.
- To dig out by means of a clamshell (dredging bucket).
- (manufacturing) To deform a die in a shape resembling the shell of a clam, as a result of uneven extrusion pressure.
- (ambitransitive) To open or close by means of a hinge, similar to the way a clamshell opens and closes.
noun
- A flat tray which can be used as a table.
- A supply of food or entertainment.
- The board or table-like furniture on which a game is played, such as snooker, billiards, or draughts.
- A group of people at a table, for example, for a meal, meeting or game.
- A collection of arithmetic calculations arranged in a table, such as multiplications in a multiplication table.
- A matrix or grid of data arranged in rows and columns.
- A wide, flat obstacle for a horse to jump over.
- (waitstaff, metonymic) A group of diners at a given table or tables.
- A flat gravestone supported on pillars.
- (metonymic) A booth or display at an event such as an exposition or fair.
- (computing, chiefly databases) A lookup table, most often a set of vectors.
- (music) The top of a stringed instrument, particularly a member of the violin family: the side of the instrument against which the strings vibrate.
- The flat topmost facet of a cut diamond.
- (poker, metonymic) The lineup of players at a given table.
- (roleplaying games, metonymic) A group of players meeting regularly to play a campaign.
- (backgammon) One half of a backgammon board, which is divided into the inner and outer table.
- An item of furniture with a flat top surface raised above the ground, usually on one or more legs.
- A service of Holy Communion.
- (sports) A visual representation of a classification of teams or individuals based on their success over a predetermined period.
- a piece of furniture having a smooth flat top that is usually supported by one or more vertical legs
- flat tableland with steep edges
- food or meals in general
- a piece of furniture with tableware for a meal laid out on it
- a company of people assembled at a table for a meal or game
- a set of data arranged in rows and columns
verb
- To put on a table.
- (metonymic) To represent a company or organization (at an exposition, fair, etc.), usually at a booth or display.
- (non-US) To put on the table of a commission or legislative assembly; to propose for formal discussion or consideration, to put on the agenda.
- (poker, colloquial) To show one's cards face-up, especially during showdown.
- To tabulate; to put into a table or grid.
- (nautical) To make board hems in the skirts and bottoms of (sails) in order to strengthen them in the part attached to the bolt-rope.
- (chiefly US) To remove from the agenda, to postpone dealing with; to shelve (to indefinitely postpone consideration or discussion of something).
- hold back to a later time
- arrange or enter in tabular form
noun
adj
- (music) Of or relating to a British music genre of the 1980s and 1990s, influenced by Madchester and psychedelia and associated with baggy clothing.
- Of clothing, very loose-fitting, so as to hang away from the body.
- (figurative) Of writing, etc.: overwrought; flabby; having too much padding.
- not fitting closely; hanging loosely
verb
noun
verb
- (informal, ambitransitive) To carry one's packed lunch from home, either literally or figuratively in a brown paper bag or a lunchbox, rather than purchase it from a cafeteria or restaurant.
- (informal, ambitransitive) To consume alcohol in public from the bottle or can, while it is held concealed inside a brown paper bag, so as to avoid attention e.g. from the police.
- (informal, agriculture, ambitransitive) To plant seed saved from one's own harvest, as opposed to buying new seed from a seed company.
noun
adj
- Packed into a box or boxes.
- In bridge and other card games if the cards in a pack are reversed face-up and face-down then the pack is said to be boxed.
- Of domesticated animals, discrete flocks or herds having become mixed, either accidentally or deliberately. (Aust. OED)
- enclosed in or set off by a border or box
- enclosed in or as if in a box