box

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Stable metal box with fittings
Old fish boxes in the port of Roses
Empty fruit and vegetable boxes at the weekly market in Sant Feliu de Guíxols

A box is an open or closed container for the transport and storage of objects . It consists of metal , plastic or wood . The common feature of all boxes is that they can be stacked with the same footprint.

The word “box” is a very old loan word . It was probably already borrowed from the Latin cista (to Greek κ zuστη kístē "box") in Germanic times . It was influenced by the synonymous Germanic * cest (to box ; cf. English chest ), which is also clear in the outdated stabbing phraseologism "boxes and boxes".

In Austria , in contrast to many areas in Germany, a beer crate , a sandpit or a tool box is used and not a box. A box there often denotes the Federal High German cabinet .

In other languages

Slovak and Czech dialectal ( Moravian ) kisňa ('box', at least in Czech also translated 'football goal ', 'television') has its origin in the German box .

Compounds (examples)

Idioms

  • " Jump into the box " - go to bed or even for sexual intercourse , die → coffin
  • " Have one in the box " - be heavily drunk
  • " Make a box " - to score a goal in football
  • Have a box ” - have a big butt
  • Being a box ” - having a muscular build
  • " Drive a box " - drive a car of any type and age
  • " This game is a tight box " - a close game of any sport

See also

credentials

  1. http://slovniky.korpus.sk/?w=kis%C5%88a&c=u125
  2. http://nase-rec.ujc.cas.cz/archiv.php?art=4411

Web links

Wiktionary: box  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations