Phrase Hound found 365 phrases and 209 compound words that contain boxes. The most common are listed below. Open boxes in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 365
- check boxesplural of check box: A space on a paper form that can be optionally filled with a check mark.
- dialog boxesplural of dialog box: A window that prompts the user to enter information.
- cardboard boxesplural of cardboard box: An industrially prefabricated box made from cardboard, primarily used for packaging goods or materials and often recycled.
- jewelry boxesplural of jewelry box: A box used for keeping jewelry
- top-boxesplural of top-box: Synonym of trunk (“storage compartment fitted behind the seat of a motorcycle”).
- text boxesplural of text box: A block of printed text contained within borders that is intended to be read separately from the major text of the page.
- Chinese boxesA set of boxes, of different sizes, each fitting inside the next larger one.
- set-top boxesplural of set-top box: A device that connects some source of signal to a television set, often decrypting a digitally encrypted signal from a communications satellite or cable network.
- dots and boxesA pencil-and-paper strategy game in which the players (usually two) take turns adding a single horizontal or vertical line between two unjoined adjacent dots in a square grid, aiming to complete the most boxes whose corners are four …
- safe deposit boxesplural of safe deposit box: A fireproof metal box for holding personal valuables; (usually specifically) one stored in a secure vault such as a bank vault or (in some countries) a post office..
- safety-deposit boxesplural of safety-deposit box: A safe-deposit box.
- air-boxesplural of air-box: The chamber in a car or motorcycle engine that draws in air and distributes it to the carburettors.
- black boxesplural of black box: A flight recorder; the brightly colored cockpit voice recorders and flight data recorders in an aircraft designed to aid in determining the cause of an accident.
- cable boxesplural of cable box: A set top box connecting a house to its cable service.
- call boxesplural of call box: A box containing a telephone for use in emergency, usually mounted on a post in an area where normal access to telephones is inconvenient (such as on an interstate highway or a very long highway bridge)
- executive boxesplural of executive box: A box at a theater or stadium reserved for the use of executives of a company.
- light boxesplural of light box: A box containing a source of light and a white, translucent cover, used to view photographic transparencies.
- luxury boxesplural of luxury box: Alternative form of skybox (sense 1).
- music boxesplural of music box: A box that generates or plays music, particularly one using mechanical means rather than electronic, generally using a cylinder or disk containing the music.
- musical boxesplural of musical box: Any of various devices that play tunes by means of pins, on a rotating disk or revolving drum, that strike or pluck metal teeth; a music box.
- phone boxesplural of phone box: A telephone box
- PO boxesplural of PO box: A post office box; a lockable box hired from the postal authorities or a private company as a collection point for mail.
- post boxesplural of post box: A box in which post can be left by a sender to be picked up by a courier or postman (postal worker).
- S-boxesplural of S-box: A basic component of symmetric-key algorithms, which performs substitution, transforming one set of bits into another.
- signal boxesplural of signal box: A building, typically adjacent to or spanning a railway line, from where signals, points and (sometimes) level crossings are controlled.
Compound words 209
- checkboxesplural of checkbox: A space on a paper form that can be optionally filled with a check mark.
- tickboxesplural of tickbox: A small space on a form in which a tick or cross may be placed as a response.
- mailboxesplural of mailbox: A box into which mail is placed.
- lightboxesplural of lightbox: A box containing a source of light and a white, translucent cover, used to view photographic transparencies.
- jukeboxesplural of jukebox: A coin-operated machine that plays recorded music, with push-buttons to make selections.
- gearboxesplural of gearbox: An enclosed gear train.
- switchboxesplural of switchbox: A box with electrical switches mounted on it.
- lunchboxesplural of lunchbox: A container for transporting meals, especially lunch.
- toolboxesplural of toolbox: A storage case for tools.
- boomboxesplural of boombox: A powerful portable audio system for listening collectively to recorded or broadcast sound.