Box vs. Unbox: What's the Difference?

A container typically constructed with four sides perpendicular to the base and often having a lid or cover.

(transitive) To remove from a box.

The amount or quantity that such a container can hold.

To retrieve (a value of a primitive type) from the object in which it is boxed.

A square or rectangle

Cookbook

A separated compartment in a public place of entertainment, such as a theater or stadium, for the accommodation of a small group.

To remove from a box or boxes.

An area of a public place, such as a courtroom or stadium, marked off and restricted for use by persons performing a specific function

Remove from a box;

A small structure serving as a shelter

Chiefly British A small country house used as a sporting lodge

A box stall.

The raised seat for the driver of a coach or carriage.

An area on a diamond marked by lines designating where the batter may stand.

Any of various designated areas for other team members, such as the pitcher, catcher, and coaches.

A penalty box.

The penalty area on a soccer field.

(Printing) Featured printed matter enclosed by hairlines, a border, or white space and placed within or between text columns.

A hollow made in the side of a tree for the collection of sap.

A post office box.

An inbox.

An outbox.

An insulating, enclosing, or protective casing or part in a machine.

A signaling device enclosed in a casing

A cable box.

(Informal) A television.

A very large portable radio.

Chiefly British A gift or gratuity, especially one given at Christmas.

An awkward or perplexing situation; a predicament.

Vulgar Slang The vulva and the vagina.

A slap or blow with the hand or fist

Any of several evergreen shrubs or trees of the genus Buxus, especially the Eurasian species B. sempervirens, widely cultivated as a hedge plant and having opposite, leathery, dark green leaves and small whitish flowers.

The hard, light yellow wood of any of these plants, formerly widely used to make musical instruments, inlays, engraving blocks, and measuring instruments. Also called boxwood.

Any of various other shrubs or trees with similar foliage or timber, especially several types of eucalyptus.

To pack in a box.

To confine in or as if in a box.

To border or enclose with or as if with a box

To provide a housing or case for (a machine part, for example).

To limit the activity or influence of by or as if by creating a restrictive structure or outlining a territory

(Sports) To block (a competitor or opponent) from advancing, especially to hinder an opponent from getting a rebound in basketball by placing oneself between the opponent and the basket

(Nautical) To boxhaul.

To cut a hole in (a tree) for the collection of sap.

To blend (paint) by pouring alternately between two containers.

To change the shape of (a structure, such as a wall) by applying lath and plaster or boarding.

To hit with the hand or fist.

(Sports) To take part in a boxing match with.

To fight with the fists or in a boxing match.

Senses relating to a three-dimensional object or space.

A cuboid space; a cuboid container, often with a hinged lid.

A cuboid container and its contents; as much as fills such a container.

A compartment (as a drawer) of an item of furniture used for storage, such as a cupboard, a shelf, etc.

A compartment or receptacle for receiving items.

A compartment to sit inside in an auditorium, courtroom, theatre, or other building.

The driver's seat on a horse-drawn coach.

A small rectangular shelter.

(automotive) gearbox

(rail) signal box

(figuratively) A predicament or trap.

(slang) A prison cell.

(euphemistic) A coffin.

(slang) Preceded by the: television.

The vagina.

A computer, or the case in which it is housed.

(slang) A gym dedicated to the CrossFit exercise program.

(cricket) A hard protector for the genitals worn inside the underpants by a batsman or close fielder.

(cricket) gully

(engineering) A cylindrical casing around the axle of a wheel, a bearing, a gland, etc.

(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 wire. It uses lights and sound to notify a hit, with different coloured lights for on target and off target hits.

(dated) A small country house.

A stringed instrument with a soundbox, especially a guitar.

Senses relating to a two-dimensional object or space

A rectangle: an oblong or a square.

(baseball) The rectangle in which the batter stands.

(genetics) One of two specific regions in a promoter.

(juggling) A pattern usually performed with three balls where the movements of the balls make a boxlike shape.

(soccer) The penalty area.

(aviation) A diamond-shaped flying formation consisting of four aircraft.

Any of various evergreen shrubs or trees of genus Buxus, especially common box, European box, or boxwood (Buxus sempervirens) which is often used for making hedges and topiary.

The wood from a box tree: boxwood.

A musical instrument, especially one made from boxwood.

(Australia) An evergreen tree of the genus Lophostemon (for example, box scrub, Brisbane box, brush box, pink box, or Queensland box, Lophostemon confertus).

(Australia) Various species of Eucalyptus trees are popularly called various kinds of boxes, on the basis of the nature of their wood, bark, or appearance for example, the drooping (Eucalyptus bicolor), shiny-leaved (Eucalyptus tereticornis), black, or ironbark box trees.

A blow with the fist.

(dated) A Mediterranean food fish of the genus Boops, which is a variety of sea bream; a bogue or oxeye.

(transitive) To place inside a box; to pack in one or more boxes.

(transitive) Usually followed by in: to surround and enclose in a way that restricts movement; to corner, to hem in.

(transitive) To mix two containers of paint of similar colour to ensure that the color is identical.

To make an incision or hole in (a tree) for the purpose of procuring the sap.

To enclose with boarding, lathing, etc., so as to conceal (for example, pipes) or to bring to a required form.

To furnish (for example, the axle of a wheel) with a box.

To enclose (images, text, etc.) in a box.

To place a value of a primitive type into a corresponding object.

(transitive) To strike with the fists; to punch.

To fight against (a person) in a boxing match.

To participate in boxing; to be a boxer.

A tree or shrub, flourishing in different parts of the world. The common box (Buxus sempervirens) has two varieties, one of which, the dwarf box (Buxus suffruticosa), is much used for borders in gardens. The wood of the tree varieties, being very hard and smooth, is extensively used in the arts, as by turners, engravers, mathematical instrument makers, etc.

A receptacle or case of any firm material and of various shapes.

The quantity that a box contain.

A space with a few seats partitioned off in a theater, or other place of public amusement.

A chest or any receptacle for the deposit of money; as, a poor box; a contribution box.

A small country house.

A boxlike shed for shelter; as, a sentry box.

An axle box, journal box, journal bearing, or bushing.

The driver's seat on a carriage or coach.

A present in a box; a present; esp. a Christmas box or gift.

The square in which the pitcher stands.

A Mediterranean food fish; the bogue.

A blow on the head or ear with the hand.

To inclose in a box.

To furnish with boxes, as a wheel.

To inclose with boarding, lathing, etc., so as to bring to a required form.

To fight with the fist; to combat with, or as with, the hand or fist; to spar.

To strike with the hand or fist, especially to strike on the ear, or on the side of the head.

To boxhaul.

A (usually rectangular) container; may have a lid;

Private area in a theater or grandstand where a small group can watch the performance;

The quantity contained in a box;

A predicament from which a skillful or graceful escape is impossible;

A rectangular drawing;

Evergreen shrubs or small trees

Any one of several designated areas on a ball field where the batter or catcher or coaches are positioned;

The driver's seat on a coach;

Separate partitioned area in a public place for a few people;

A blow with the hand (usually on the ear);

Put into a box;

Hit with the fist;

Engage in a boxing match