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Unboy vs Unbox - What's the difference?

unboy | unbox |

As verbs the difference between unboy and unbox

is that unboy is to divest of the traits of a boy while unbox is to remove from a box.

unboy

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To divest of the traits of a boy.
    • (Clarendon)

    Usage notes

    * The forms unboys'' and ''unboying are vanishingly rare or non-existent. (Webster 1913)

    unbox

    English

    Verb

  • To remove from a box.
  • * 2005 , Andrew Laties, Rebel Bookseller
    • The booksellers' tasks were to unbox , shelve, and handle cash.
  • (computing) To retrieve (a value of a primitive type) from the object in which it is boxed.
  • * 2004 , Stephen Teilhet, Jay Hilyard, C# Cookbook
    • When a boxing or unboxing operation occurs in code, whether it was implicit or explicit, the IL generated includes the box'' or ''unbox command.