Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective resembling a box in rectangularity.
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- adjective similar to a
box
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- adjective resembling a box in rectangularity
Etymologies
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Examples
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These shows, while popular for a time in the United States and Europe, could only be “peeped,” one viewer at a time, in another contraption bearing an Edison patent, the boxlike Kinetoscope.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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These shows, while popular for a time in the United States and Europe, could only be “peeped,” one viewer at a time, in another contraption bearing an Edison patent, the boxlike Kinetoscope.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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A boxlike sideboard of c. 1902, accented with long medieval-style strap hinges across its doors, recalls the illustrations of cabinetry in Charles Locke Eastlake's immensely popular book "Hints on Household Taste," first published nearly four decades earlier.
Four-Square Reformer Barrymore Laurence Scherer 2010
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Emblematic of the mysterious nature of the target was that satellite imaging before the raid showed a large featureless boxlike structure.
How the End Begins Ron Rosenbaum 2011
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We visited Marie not her real name for her protection in her boxlike tent.
Bill Quigley: Displaced Women Demand Justice in Port au Prince Bill Quigley 2011
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His fingers found several small pipes or conduits, then the boxlike metal structure of a ventilation duct.
Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011
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His fingers found several small pipes or conduits, then the boxlike metal structure of a ventilation duct.
Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011
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Emblematic of the mysterious nature of the target was that satellite imaging before the raid showed a large featureless boxlike structure.
How the End Begins Ron Rosenbaum 2011
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His fingers found several small pipes or conduits, then the boxlike metal structure of a ventilation duct.
Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011
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His fingers found several small pipes or conduits, then the boxlike metal structure of a ventilation duct.
Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011
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