Box

What “Box” means

Noun

1. Senses relating to a three-dimensional object or space.
2. Senses relating to a three-dimensional object or space.
3. Senses relating to a three-dimensional object or space.
4. Senses relating to a three-dimensional object or space.
5. Senses relating to a three-dimensional object or space.

Verb

1. To place inside a box; to pack in one or more boxes.
2. Usually followed by in: to surround and enclose in a way that restricts movement; to corner, to hem in.
3. To mix two containers of paint of similar colour to ensure that the color is identical.
4. To make an incision or hole in (a tree) for the purpose of procuring the sap.
5. To enclose with boarding, lathing, etc., so as to conceal (for example, pipes) or to bring to a required form.

Noun

1. 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.
2. The wood from a box tree: boxwood.
3. A musical instrument, especially one made from boxwood.
4. An evergreen tree of the genus Lophostemon (for example, box scrub, Brisbane box, brush box, pink box, or Queensland box, Lophostemon confertus).
5. 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, drooping box (Eucalyptus bicolor), shiny-leaved box (Eucalyptus tereticornis), black box, or ironbark box trees.

Noun

1. A blow with the fist.

Where the word comes from

Etymology tree Ancient Greek πῠ́ξος (pŭ́xos) Ancient Greek -ῐς (-ĭs) Ancient Greek πυξίς (puxís)bor. Late Latin buxisbor. Proto-West Germanic *buhsā Old English box Middle English box English box From Middle English box (“container, box, cup”), from Old English box (“box, case”), from Proto-West Germanic *buhsā (“box”) from Late Latin buxis (“box”), Latin pyxis (“small box for medicines or toiletries”), of uncertain origin; compare Ancient Greek πυξίς (puxís, “box or tablet made of boxwood; box; cylinder”) and πύξος (púxos, “box tree; boxwood”). Doublet of piseog, pyx, and pyxis. Cognate with Middle Dutch bosse, busse (“jar; tin; round box”) (modern Dutch bos (“wood, forest”), bus (“container, box; bushing of a wheel”)), Old High German buhsa (Middle High German buhse, bühse, modern German Büchse (“box; can”)), Swedish bössa (“box”). The humorous plural form boxen is from box + -en, by a

Etymology tree Latin buxusbor. Proto-West Germanic *buhs Old English box Middle English box English box From Middle English box (“box tree; boxwood”), from Old English box (“box tree”), from Proto-West Germanic *buhs (“box tree; thing made from boxwood”), from Latin buxus (“box tree; thing made from boxwood”), buxum (“box tree; boxwood”), possibly from πύξος (púxos, “box tree; boxwood”).

From Middle English box (“a blow; a stroke with a weapon”); further origin uncertain, with relation to Proto-Germanic *boki-, whence Danish bask (“a blow; a stripe”), Danish baske (“to flap, move around, beat violently”), Middle Dutch boke (“a blow, a hit”), bōken (“to slap, strike”) (modern Dutch beuken (“to slap”)), West Frisian bûkje, bûtse, bûtsje (“to slap”), West Frisian and Saterland Frisian batsje (“to slap”), Low German betschen (“to slap, beat with a flat hand”), Middle High German buc (“a blow, a stroke”), bochen (“to slap, strike”), and further onomatopoeic shaping. The verb is from Middle English boxen (“to beat or whip (an animal)”), which is derived from the noun.

Business name ideas with “Box”

Industries where “Box” fits

We suggest this word for 12 business types and industries, including:

• CrossFit Box
• Dropshipping Store
• Meal Kit Company
• Meal Prep Business
• Moving Company
• Online Store
• Storage Facility
• Subscription Box Business
• Electronic Shopping and Mail-Order Houses
• Lessors of Miniwarehouses and Self-Storage Units
• Perishable Prepared Food Manufacturing
• Used Household and Office Goods Moving