box vs knockdown

box

noun
  • A small rectangular shelter. 

  • A compartment or receptacle for receiving items. 

  • A coffin. 

  • The rectangle in which the batter stands. 

  • The vagina. 

  • A rectangle: an oblong or a square. 

  • A cylindrical casing around the axle of a wheel, a bearing, a gland, etc. 

  • A stringed instrument with a soundbox, especially a guitar. 

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

  • One of two specific regions in a promoter. 

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

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

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

  • A musical instrument, especially one made from boxwood. 

  • A predicament or trap. 

  • A cell used for solitary confinement. 

  • A gym dedicated to the CrossFit exercise program. 

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

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

  • A diamond-shaped flying formation consisting of four aircraft. 

  • 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 prison cell. 

  • A numbered receptacle at a newspaper office for anonymous replies to advertisements; see also box number. 

  • 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. 

  • Preceded by the: television. 

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

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

  • The wood from a box tree: boxwood. 

  • A blow with the fist. 

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

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

  • The penalty area. 

  • Synonym of gully (“a certain fielding position”) 

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

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

  • 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 place inside a box; to pack in one or more boxes. 

  • 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. 

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

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

  • To strike with the fists; to punch. 

  • To participate in boxing; to be a boxer. 

knockdown

noun
  • A shelter erected for use as a temporary dressing room. 

  • The condition of a sailboat being pushed abruptly to horizontal, with the mast parallel to the water surface. 

  • An act of knocking down or the condition of being knocked down. 

  • A collection of parts required to assemble a product, typically manufactured in one region and exported elsewhere for assembly. 

  • a short pass played downwards, for example from the head onto someone's feet. 

  • A genetically modified organism that carries one or more genes in its chromosomes that have been made less active or had their expression reduced. 

  • The use of a reagent such as an oligonucleotide with sequence complementary to an active gene or its mRNA transcript, to interfere with the expression of said gene. 

  • An overwhelming blow. 

verb
  • To employ the knockdown technique 

adj
  • To be formed into a head by upsetting in fastening. 

  • reduced in price, originally to a price below which an article would not be sold by the auctioneer 

  • powerful enough to overwhelm or knock down 

  • Capable of being taken apart for packing or removal. 

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