Box vs Chamber - What's the difference?
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A space; a container, usually with a hinged lid.
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A compartment of a storage furniture, or of a part of such a furniture, such as of a drawer, shelving, etc.
A compartment to sit in at a theater, courtroom or auditorium.
A small rectangular shelter like a booth.
A rectangle.
An input field on an interactive electronic display.
A numbered receptacle at a newspaper office for anonymous replies to advertisements.
A trap or predicament.
The driver's seat on a coach.
(cricket) A hard protector for the genitals worn by a batsman or close fielder inside the underpants.
(engineering) A cylindrical casing around for example a bearing or gland.
(football) The penalty area.
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(computing, slang) A computer, or the case in which it is housed.
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(slang, offensive) The vagina.
(euphemistic) Coffin.
(juggling) A pattern usually performed with three balls where the movements of the balls make a boxlike shape.
Horse box.
* 1877 , (Anna Sewell), (Black Beauty) Chapter 22[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Black_Beauty/22]
(baseball) The rectangle in which the stands.
A Mediterranean food fish; the bogue.
(dated) A small country house.
* Cowper
(informal) box lacrosse
To place inside a box; to pack in boxes.
(usually with 'in') To hem in.
(computing) To place a value of a primitive type into a corresponding object.
To mix two containers of paint of similar color to ensure that the color is identical.
To furnish (e.g. a wheel) with boxes.
(architecture) To enclose with boarding, lathing, etc., so as to bring to a required form.
To make an incision or hole in (a tree) for the purpose of procuring the sap.
Any of various evergreen shrubs or trees of the genus Buxus .
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Boxwood: the wood from a box tree.
* 1884 , John R. Jackson, “Boxwood and its Substitutes”, reprinted in Journal of the Society of Arts , 1885 April 10,
(slang) A musical instrument, especially/usually one made from boxwood.
* 1937 , , Their Eyes Were Watching God , Harper Perennial (2000), page 100:
A blow with the fist.
* Washington Irving
To strike with fists; to punch.
To fight against (a person) in a boxing match.
To participate in boxing; to be a boxer.
A room, especially one used primarily for sleeping; bedroom, sleeping room.
* 1845, ,
An enclosed space.
(firearms) The portion of the weapon that holds the ammunition round immediately prior to (and during initiation of) its discharge; each of the cylindrical compartments of a revolver that can hold a bullet
One of the legislative bodies in a government where multiple such bodies exist, or a single such body in comparison to others.
A law office in a building housing several such offices, typically the office of a barrister in the United Kingdom or in the imagination of an African scammer.
(dated, in the plural) Apartments in a lodging house.
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(obsolete) A chamber pot.
(historical) A short piece of ordnance or cannon which stood on its breech without any carriage, formerly used chiefly for celebrations and theatrical cannonades.
To enclose in a room.
To reside in or occupy a chamber or chambers.
* 1893 , Publications of the Scottish History Society (volume 14, page 64)
To place in a chamber, as a round of ammunition.
To create or modify a gun to be a specific caliber.
In martial arts, to prepare an offensive, defensive, or counteroffensive action by drawing a limb or weapon to a position where it may be charged with kinetic energy.
(obsolete) To be lascivious.
As nouns the difference between box and chamber
is that box is box (rectangular container) while chamber is the luxembourgish parliament (officially known by the french name of “chambre des ”).box
English
(wikipedia box)Etymology 1
From (etyl) box, from (etyl) .Noun
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- a sentry box
- Place a tick or a cross in the box .
- This text would stand out better if we put it in a box of colour.
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- He was a fine-looking middle-aged man, and his voice said at once that he expected to be obeyed. He was very friendly and polite to John, and after giving us a slight look, he called a groom to take us to our boxes , and invited John to take some refreshment.
- a shooting box
- (Wilson)
- tight boxes neatly sashed
Usage notes
* (computer) The whimsical plural (boxen) is occasionally used.Synonyms
* (rectangular container) case, package * (as much as fills a box) boxful * (compartment to sit in) loge * (small shelter like a booth) shelter * (input field on an electronic display) text box * (sense, driver's seat on a coach) box seat * gash, pussy, twat * (television) telly (UK), tube, TV * computer, machine * (protector for the genitals) cup (US)Derived terms
* airbox * apple-box * axle-box * ballot box * bandbox * beatbox * be in a box * be in the same box * be in the wrong box * bento box * bitty box * black box * blue box * boom box, boom-box, boombox * box and needle * box-anneal * box-annealing * box-back * boxball * box-barrage * box-beam * box-bed * box-bill * box-board, boxboard * box-club * box camera * box canyon * box-car, boxcar * box-cart * box-chronometer * box-churn * box-cloth * box-club * box coat * box-coil * box-colored, box-coloured * box-coupling * box-crab * box-cutter * box-day * box-desk * box-drain * boxen * box end wrench * boxer * box-feeding * box file * box-fish, boxfish * box-fitter * box-food * box frame, box-frame * boxful * box girder * box-grain * box-groove * box guitar * box-hand * box-hat * box-head, boxhead * box-hook * box-house * box-iron * box jellyfish * box junction * box-keeper, boxkeeper * box-keeperess * box-key * box kite * box lacrosse * boxlock * box-letter * box-level * box-lobby * box-loom * box lunch * box lyre * box magazine * boxmaker, boxmaking * box-man * box-master * box-mattress * box-meat * box-metal * box-money * box-motion * box number * box-nut * a box of birds * box of chocolates * box office, box-office * box of matches * box-ottoman * box-oyster * box-plan * box pleat * box-pleated * box-pleating * box profits * box-rent * box room, box-room, boxroom * box score * box seat, box-seat * box set, box-set * box-shutter * box-slater * box-sleigh * box social * box spanner * box spread * box spring, box-spring * box-square * box-stair * box-staircase * box stall * box-standard * box-staple * box step * box-stone * box-strap * box-string * box-swivel * box-tail * box-tappet * box-tenon * box-ticking * box-timbering * box-toe * box-tool * box top, box-top * box-tortoise * box-trap * box-tricycle * box turtle * box-valve * box-van * box-wagon * box-wallah * box wrench, box-wrench * boxy * brain box, brain-box, brainbox * breadbox * CAAT box * cable box * call box, call-box * cardboard box * cartridge-box * cash-box, cashbox * chatterbox * check box (checkbox) * Chinese boxes * chocolate-box * Christmas box * cigar box * clack-box * coachbox * coal-box * coin-box * collecting box * color-box, colour-box * comb-box * combo box (combobox) * coolbox * coupling-box * cracker-box * dead-letter box * deed-box * dialog box * dice-box, dicebox * dirt-box * dispatch-box * ditty-box * dog-box, dogbox * dredge-box * dredging-box * dressing-box * dressing-up box * drink box * driving-box * dumb as a box of rocks * dust-box * egg-box * embox * feed-box * feeding-box * fire-box, firebox * first-aid box * fishing box * flush-box * front box * fuse-box, fusebox * fuzz box, fuzzbox * gearbox * GC box * glory box * glove box, glovebox * goggle-box * Goldberg-Hogness box, Hogness box * grass box * hat-box, hatbox * hay-box, haybox * hell-box, hellbox * homeobox, homoeobox * horse box, horse-box, horsebox * hot box, hotbox * hunting box * icebox * idiot box * in-box, inbox * Jack-in-a-box, Jack-in-the-box, jack-in-the-box * jewel box, jewel-box * journal box * juice box * junction-box * jukebox * jury box * knife-box * knock out of the box * letterbox * light box * list box * live-box * lockbox * loose box, loosebox * love box * lunch box, lunch-box, lunchbox * magic box * mail-box, mailbox * marmalade box * matchbox * missionary-box * miter box, mitre box * money box, moneybox * moss-box * mud box * muscle-box * musical box * music-box * nest-box * nesting box * omnibus box * one out of the box * out-box, outbox * out of the box * packing box * paddle-box * paint box, paintbox * Pandora’s box * patch-box * pay box * peg-box * pegbox * penalty box * pepperbox * phone box * pillar box, pillar-box * pillbox * play-box, playbox * PO box * police box * poor box * post-box, postbox * post-office box * potato-box * pounce-box * pouncet-box * powder-box * power box * prattle-box * press box, press-box * private box * prompt-box * prompter's box * property box * puff box * rattlebox * resistance-box * safe-deposit box, safety-deposit box * salt-box, saltbox * sandbox * saucebox * savings-box * scent-box * search box * seed-box, seedbox * sentry box * set-top box * shoe-box, shoebox * shooting box * show-box * side box, side-box * signal box * Skinner box * six-yard box * skybox * sluice-box * slushbox * smoke-box, smokebox * snow box * snuffbox * soap-box, soapbox * sound box, sound-box, soundbox * spice-box * spitbox * spurious box * squawk box, squawk-box, squawkbox * squeeze-box, squeezebox * stage box * strong-box, strongbox * stuffing box, stuffing-box * sugar-box * suggestion box * swear box * sweat-box, sweatbox * swell box * tar-box * TATA box * T-box * telephone box * tell-box * text box (textbox) * thunder-box * tick all the boxes * tick box * tinder box, tinder-box, tinderbox * tobacco-box * toolbox * touch-box * tuck box * tucker-box * tumbling box, tumbling-box * unbox * upper box * vanity box, vanity-box * versing box * voice box, voice-box * wagon box * watch-box * weather-box * weigh-box * the whole box and dice * window-box * wine box * witness box, witness-box * work-box, workbox * writing-box * Yerkes discrimination box * yogibogeyboxDescendants
* Portuguese:Verb
(es)Synonyms
* (to place inside a box) box up, case, embox, encase, pack, package, package up * (to hem in) cornerDerived terms
* abox * autoboxing * box about * boxed * boxer * box-haul, boxhaul * box-hauling * box in * boxing * Boxing Day * box off * box out * box the compass * box upAntonyms
* (place inside a box) unbox, uncase, unpackEtymology 2
(etyl), from (etyl), from (etyl) buxus, from (etyl) .Noun
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- Nevertheless, the application of woods other than box' for purposes for which that wood is now used would tend to lessen the demand for ' box , and thus might have an effect in lowering its price.
- “Evenin’, folks. Thought y’all might lak uh lil music this evenin’ so Ah brought long mah box .”
Derived terms
* box elder * box holly * box thornSynonyms
* (evergreen shrub or tree) boxwoodDerived terms
* bastard box * bonnet-box * box alder, box elder * boxberry * box-edged * boxen * boxer * box-gum * box-holly * box-room * box-slip * box-thorn, boxthorn * box-tree * boxwood * flowering box * grey box * prickly box * Queensland box * red box * Tasmanian boxEtymology 3
(etyl) (fist, pugilism)Noun
(boxes)- And then he whispered something to the girl which made her laugh, and give him a good-humored box on the ear.
Synonyms
* (blow with the fist) blow, punchVerb
(es)- box someone's ears
- Leave this place before I box you!
Derived terms
(derived terms) * BoxAerobics, boxaerobics * box clever * Boxer * boxer * boxercise * boxiana * boxing * box it out * box on * box-on * box oneself into a corner * out-box * shadow-box, shadowboxDescendants
* German: * Portuguese:chamber
English
(wikipedia chamber)Alternative forms
* chambre (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
- Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,
- While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
- As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
- the chamber''' of a canal lock; the '''chamber''' of a furnace; the '''chamber of the eye
- A ''test chamber'' is typically a closable case where devices under test are placed.
- Dianne loaded a cartridge into the chamber of the rifle, then prepared to take aim at the target.
- The resolution, which speedily passed the Senate, was unable to gain a majority in the lower chamber .
- a bachelor's life in chambers
Derived terms
* torture chamberVerb
(en verb)- She had chambered herself in her room, and wouldn't come out.
- I chambered with Alexander Preston.
- The hunter fired at the geese and missed, then shrugged his shoulders and chambered another cartridge.
- The rifle was originally chambered for 9MM, but had since been modified for a larger, wildcat caliber.
- Bob chambered his fist for a blow, but Sheila struck first.