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B0431800 (bŏks′kär′)n.1. A fully enclosed railroad car, typically having sliding side doors, used to transport freight.2. boxcars A throw of two dice that turns up six spots on each.

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(ˈbɒksˌkɑː) n (Railways) US and Canadian a closed railway freight van

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(ˈbɒksˌkɑr)

n. 1. an enclosed railroad freight car. 2. boxcars, a pair of sixes on the first throw in craps. [1855–60, Amer.]

Thesaurus

Noun

boxcar - a freight car with roof and sliding doors in the sidesfreight car - a railway car that carries freightstockcar - boxcar with latticed sides; for transporting livestock

Translations

carro merci chiusovagone merci

boxcar

[′bäks‚kär] (communications) One of a series of long signal-wave pulses which are separated by very short intervals of time. (engineering) A railroad car with a flat roof and vertical sides, usually with sliding doors, which carries freight that needs to be protected from weather and theft.

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An adjectival descriptor for a periodically interrupted series of elongated structures with parallel lateral sides
Cardiovascular pathology Boxcar nuclei are typical of hypoxic myocytes, which follow ischaemic insults
Forensics Columns of intravascular blood, interrupted by air in the small blood vessels and capillaries of the brains in scuba divers dying of air embolism due to rapid ascent and intravascular expansion of gases
Microbiology ‘Boxcar’-like organisms are arranged in long parallel chains of bacteria in an end-to-end arrangement, which is characteristic of Clostridium perfringens, Bacillus anthracis
Mycology Arrangement of arthrospores of Geotrichum spp, Trichosporon spp and Coccidioides immitis (alternating bands of pigmentation frequently cause rudimentary bodies) arthroderma have also been described in Fusarium solani hyphae stained by safranin; Geotrichum spp have a hockey stick-like appearance
Ophthalmology A boxcar pattern occurs in vascular stasis with segmentation of the venous column—of blood in the retinal vein—after central retinal artery occlusion

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noun a freight car with roof and sliding doors in the sides

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