单词 | to box up |
释义 | > as lemmasto box up to box up 1. a. transitive. To put (something) into a box, esp. for storage, transport, or sale. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > insertion or putting in > insert or put in [verb (transitive)] > into or as into other specific receptacles > (as) into a box to box up?c1450 box1545 cask1562 embox1570 ?c1450 in G. Müller Aus Mittelengl. Medizintexten (1929) 121 (MED) Boyle all hem to-gedir..and whanne it is colde, box it vp. 1587 T. Dawson Good Huswifes Iewell (new ed.) sig. D Put in the Quinces, and let them boyle a good while..& when they be boyled you must boxe them vp. 1672 A. Marvell Rehearsal Transpros'd i. 192 The Sentences shall be boxed up in several paragraphs. 1674 T. Flatman Poems & Songs 89 Thus John Tradeskin starves our greedy eyes, By boxing up his new found Rarities. 1823 J. Badcock Domest. Amusem. 147 Box up the refined potass carefully. 1908 Appeal by J. G. McIntyre (N.Y. Supreme Court Appellate Division, 3rd Dept.) 19 He was there helping me box up the goods. 2005 Australian (Nexis) 25 June 2 A lifetime's collection of manuscripts and books, many of them presentation copies signed by the authors..were boxed up ready to go. b. transitive. To put or fit a box or partition around (something); to enclose (something) in a box or casing. Cf. to box in 1 at Phrasal verbs. Now rare. ΚΠ 1741 Short Acct. Journey Tuscany 10 The Nuns Houses..have their Windows all box'd up to hinder them from looking into the Streets. 1777 Scots Mag. May 249/2 In the corner of the cell, boxed up with the partition, stands a necessary-house. 1819 A. Rees Cycl. XXXVII. at Vogler Producing new effects..not by the usual method of a common swell with pipes inclosed in a particular chest, but by boxing up the whole instrument, and increasing and diminishing the tone..of the entire chorus or full organ. 1972 Times 10 Nov. 16/2 Outside the consulate..there is a large statue of Queen Victoria... During the war she was boxed-up for protection. 2. transitive. To confine (a person or thing) in a small space or within narrow limits, as if in a box, esp. uncomfortably; to block or restrict the movement of (a person or thing). ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restriction or limitation > restrict or limit [verb (transitive)] > in free action bind971 hamper?a1366 chain1377 coarctc1400 prison?a1425 tether?a1505 fetter1526 imprisona1533 strait1533 swaddle1539 measure1560 shacklea1568 to tie up1570 manacle1577 straitena1586 hopple1586 immew16.. scant1600 cabina1616 criba1616 trammela1616 copse1617 cramp1625 cloister1627 incarcerate1640 hidebind1642 to box up1659 strait-lace1662 perstringe1679 hough-band1688 cabin1780 pin1795 strait jacket1814 peg1832 befetter1837 to tie the hands of1866 hog-tie1924 corset1935 1659 T. Pestell Serm. & Devotions 204 So Noah was boxed up in his ark, riding on his horse of wood over all the surges that devoured the world of the ungodly. ?1778 P. Phillips Sentimental Diary 5 Expecting to be boxed up in a little room nine feet by five, in a small thatched cottage. 1824 M. M. Sherwood Waste Not ii. 5 How do you like being boxed up with the old lady? 1894 Pall Mall Mag. Feb. 583 I'm nearly dead from being boxed up in the house all day. 1956 Control & Reduction Armaments (Hearing before Subcommittee Foreign Relations, U.S. Senate, 84th Congr., 2nd Sess.) VIII. 447 Whatever Bulganin and Khrushchev's intentions the Russian people are beginning to get a little more room to act and it will be hard to box them up again as they were boxed up before. 2007 G. Phillips Royal Nonesuch (e-book ed.) I spent six weeks boxed up in the Adolescent Recovery Center, learning about sobriety. 3. transitive. Australian and New Zealand. To mix up or join together (different flocks of sheep or herds of cattle), either accidentally or intentionally. Usually in passive. Cf. sense 12a. ΚΠ 1880 A. C. Grant Bush-life in Queensland xvi, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 460/2 All the mobs of different aged lambs which had been hitherto kept apart were boxed up together. 1999 M. Hayes Before we're Forgotten 72 They mostly boxed the cattle up and drafted them up about where Teddy McGufficke lived. 2019 Dalby (Queensland) Herald (Nexis) 9 Aug. 12 The sheep would all get boxed up and have to be taken to yards to be drafted. < as lemmas |
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