Box

• (surname): Boxx

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Box

1. A surname.
   • 2022 August 29, Elena Shao, “New Research Forecasts More Dire Sea Level Rise as Greenland’s Ice Melts”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     The 10-inch increase forecast in the new study, which does not give a timeline, could be much higher if temperatures continue to rise, as they almost certainly will, said Jason Box, a glaciologist at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland who was the paper’s lead author.

2. A village in Minchinhampton parish, south of Stroud, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SO8600).
3. A village and civil parish near Corsham, Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref ST8268). ^[1]

• BXO, OBX

Borrowed from English box. Doublet of Büchse (“can”) and Buchse (“bushing, connector”).

• IPA^(key): /bɔks/

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• Rhymes: -ɔks

Box f (genitive Box, plural Boxen)

1. box (rectangular container); but not as widely used as in English, perhaps commonest for plastic boxes
2. (electronics) loudspeaker (box-like encasing containing one or more loudspeaker devices)
3. (equestrianism) a stall for a horse (compartment in a stable); not used for a horsebox, which is Pferdeanhänger
4. (motor racing) pit (area for refueling and repairing)

• With regard to the derived senses 2, 3, and 4, Box has become a false friend of its English etymon, box.

• (box): Behälter; Dose; Karton; Kasten; Kiste; Schachtel

• “Box” in Duden online
• “Box” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

• bóx, bóks, box, boks (Veldeke spelling)
• Botts (Eupen)
• Bocksch

Derived from or related to Middle Low German buxe. Compare Luxembourgish Box and Central Franconian Botz.

• IPA^(key): /ˈboks/, [ˈbʊks]
• (some dialects and some younger speakers) IPA^(key): /ˈbɔks/, [ˈbɒks]
• Rhymes: -oks

Box f (plural Boxe, diminutive Böxke) (German-based spelling)

1. trousers (UK); pants (US)
2. diaper
3. feathers on a chicken's leg

• IPA^(key): /boks/

Box f (plural Boxen)

1. trousers