Le mot anglais du jour

box

boîte

Définitions

anglais > français
box
1. n. Boîte, caisse.
a box of books
2. n. Loge (de théâtre).
3. n. Cabane.
4. n. Case (d'un formulaire).
5. v. Emboiter, emballer.
6. v. (POO) Convertir un type primitif en un objet. (équivalent manquant)
7. n. Buis, bois du buis.
8. n. Coup de poing.
9. n. (Sport) Boxe.
10. v. Boxer, frapper.
anglais > anglais
box
1. n. Senses relating to a three-dimensional object or space.
2. n. A cuboid space; a cuboid container, often with a hinged lid.
3. n. A cuboid container and its contents; as much as fills such a container.
a box of books
4. n. A compartment (as a drawer) of an item of furniture used for storage, such as a cupboard, a shelf, etc.
5. n. A compartment or receptacle for receiving items.
post box post office box
6. n. # A numbered receptacle at a newspaper office for anonymous replies to advertisements.
7. n. A compartment to sit inside in an auditorium, courtroom, theatre or other building.
8. n. The driver's seat on a horse-drawn coach.
9. n. A small rectangular shelter; a booth.
sentry-box
10. n. (short for, horsebox, , container for transporting horses)
11. n. (figuratively) A predicament or trap.
I’m really in a box now.
12. n. (euphemistic) A coffin.
13. n. (slang) Preceded by the: television.
14. n. (slang) The vagina.
15. n. (computing, slang) A computer, or the case in which it is housed.
a UNIX box
16. n. (cricket) A hard protector for the genitals worn inside the underpants by a batsman or close fielder.
17. n. (engineering) A cylindrical casing around the axle of a wheel, a bearing, a gland, etc.
18. n. (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
19. n. (dated) A small country house.
20. n. Senses relating to a two-dimensional object or space
21. n. A rectangle: an oblong or a square.
Place a tick in the box.
This text would stand out better if we put it in a coloured box.
22. n. (baseball) The rectangle in which the batter stands.
23. n. (genetics) One of two specific regions in a promoter.
24. n. (juggling) A pattern usually performed with three balls where the movements of the balls make a boxlike shape.
25. n. (lacrosse, informal) (short for, box lacrosse, , indoor form of lacrosse)
26. n. (soccer) The penalty area.
27. v. To place inside a box; to pack in one or more boxes.
28. v. Usually followed by in: to surround and enclose in a way that restricts movement; to corner, to hem in.
29. v. To mix two containers of paint of similar colour to ensure that the color is identical.
30. v. (transitive, agriculture) To make an incision or hole in (a tree) for the purpose of procuring the sap.
31. v. (transitive, architecture) To enclose with boarding, lathing, etc., so as to conceal (for example, pipes) or to bring to a required form.
32. v. (transitive, engineering) To furnish (for example, the axle of a wheel) with a box.
33. v. (transitive, graphic design, printing) To enclose (images, text, etc.) in a box.
34. v. (transitive, object-oriented programming) To place a value of a primitive type into a corresponding object.
35. n. Any of various evergreen shrubs or trees of the genus Buxus, especially the common box, European box, or boxwood (Buxus sempervirens) which is often used for making hedges and topiary.
36. n. The wood from a box tree: boxwood.
37. n. (musical instrument, slang) A musical instrument, especially one made from boxwood.
38. n. (Australia) An evergreen tree of the genus Lophostemon (for example, the box scrub, (vern, Brisbane box), vern, brush box, pink box, or vern, Queensland box,).
39. n. A blow with the fist.
40. v. To strike with the fists; to punch.
box someone’s ears
Leave this place before I box you!
41. v. (transitive, boxing) To fight against (a person) in a boxing match.
42. v. (intransitive, boxing) To participate in boxing; to be a boxer.
43. n. (dated) A Mediterranean food fish of the genus , which is a variety of sea bream; a bogue or oxeye.
français > anglais
boîte
1. n-f. box (the container)
2. n-f. tin, can
3. n-f. (colloquial) ellipsis of boîte de nuit: club, nightclub
4. n-f. (informal) company, employer