OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 3511

box

/bɒks/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
caja
Senses relating to a three-dimensional object or space.
A terrible voice in the hall cried, "Bring down Master Scrooge's box, there!" and in the hall appeared the schoolmaster himself, who glared on Master Scrooge with a ferocious conde…
The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the…
caja
Senses relating to a three-dimensional object or space.
He brought me also a Box of Sugar, a Box of Flour, a Bag full of Lemons, and two Bottles of Lime-juice, and abundance of other Things: […]
a box of books
cajón
Senses relating to a three-dimensional object or space.
luneta • palco
Senses relating to a three-dimensional object or space.
One night he proposed a champagne supper, to which, he said he had invited a friend of his. I consented without hesitation, and soon after we proceeded to an eating house and seati…
garita
Senses relating to a three-dimensional object or space.
sentry-box
tele
Senses relating to a three-dimensional object or space.
Mr. Wormwood switched on the television. The screen lit up. The programme blared. Mr Wormwood glared at Matilda. She hadn't moved. She had somehow trained herself by now to block h…
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