Definition of Boxlike

1. Adjective. Resembling a box in rectangularity.

Exact synonyms: Box-shaped, Boxy
Similar to: Cubic, Three-dimensional
Derivative terms: Box

Definition of Boxlike

1. Adjective. Similar to a box ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Boxlike

1. resembling a box [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Boxlike

boxing
boxing days
boxing equipment
boxing glove
boxing gloves
boxing match
boxing ring
boxing rings
boxing wax
boxing week
boxings
boxkeeper
boxkeepers
boxless
boxlike (current term)
boxload
boxloads
boxmen
boxout
boxouts
boxplot
boxplots
boxroom
boxrooms
boxscore
boxscores
boxset
boxsets

Literary usage of Boxlike

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1914)
"Pressure within this boxlike space that would prevent the ... would cause the blood in this boxlike structure to be backed into the dural veins. ..."

2. Technic and scope of cast gold and porcelain inlays with a chapter on by Herman E. S. Chayes (1918)
"If we are to replace the facial portions with a silicate, then the boxlike aperture is so grooved that a retentive form is obtained; this is easily ..."

3. The Journal of Science (1864)
"Mr. Fairbairn gives us a sketch of a very slight attempt at architectural eft'cct with which he succeeded, in 182C, in replacing the old boxlike form of ..."

4. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1900)
"... has been through the palm-fringed coast country, the canyons of the Gro.-it Karroo, which consists of gigantic boxlike plateaus placed indis ..."

5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Certain candidates for occult hunting powers were prohibited from having their hair cut and were shut up in boxlike receptacles, ..."

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