box vs dilemma

box

noun
  • A predicament or trap. 

  • A compartment or receptacle for receiving items. 

  • A coffin. 

  • The rectangle in which the batter stands. 

  • 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 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. 

dilemma

noun
  • A difficult circumstance or problem. 

  • A type of syllogism of the form "if A is true then B is true; if C is true then D is true; either A or C is true; therefore either B or D is true". 

  • A circumstance in which a choice must be made between two or more alternatives that seem equally undesirable. 

  • Offering to an opponent a choice between two (equally unfavorable) alternatives. 

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