box vs leg

box

noun
  • The rectangle in which the batter stands. 

  • A compartment or receptacle for receiving items. 

  • A coffin. 

  • A small rectangular shelter. 

  • 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. 

leg

noun
  • Denotes the half of the field on the same side as the batsman's legs; the left side for a right-handed batsman. 

  • A part of garment, such as a pair of trousers/pants, that covers a leg. 

  • One side of a multiple-sided (often triangular) course in a sailing race. 

  • One of the branches of a hyperbola or other curve which extend outward indefinitely. 

  • A branch circuit; one phase of a polyphase system. 

  • In a grain elevator, the case containing the lower part of the belt which carries the buckets. 

  • In humans, the lower limb extending from the groin to the ankle. 

  • A branch or lateral circuit connecting an instrument with the main line. 

  • A single game or match played in a tournament or other sporting contest. 

  • An army soldier assigned to a paratrooper unit who has not yet been qualified as a paratrooper. 

  • The portion of the lower limb of a human that extends from the knee to the ankle. 

  • A distance that a sailing vessel does without changing the sails from one side to the other. 

  • An underlying instrument of a derivatives strategy. 

  • An extension of a steam boiler downward, in the form of a narrow space between vertical plates, sometimes nearly surrounding the furnace and ash pit, and serving to support the boiler; called also water leg. 

  • The ability of something to persist or succeed over a long period of time. 

  • A stage of a journey, race etc. 

  • A column, as a unit of length of text as laid out. 

  • A rod-like protrusion from an inanimate object, such as a piece of furniture, supporting it from underneath. 

  • Something that supports. 

  • One of the two sides of a right triangle that is not the hypotenuse. 

  • A limb or appendage that an animal uses for support or locomotion on land. 

verb
  • To remove the legs from an animal carcass. 

  • To apply force using the leg (as in 'to leg a horse'). 

  • To put a series of three or more options strikes into the stock market. 

  • To build legs onto a platform or stage for support. 

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