The difference between Blow and Box
When used as nouns, blow means a strong wind, whereas box means a cuboid space.
When used as verbs, blow means to produce an air current, whereas box means to place inside a box.
Blow is also adjective with the meaning: blue.
check bellow for the other definitions of Blow and Box
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Blow as an adjective (now, chiefly, dialectal, Northern England):
Blue.
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Blow as a verb (intransitive):
To produce an air current.
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Blow as a verb (transitive):
To propel by an air current.
Examples:
"Blow the dust off that book and open it up."
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Blow as a verb (intransitive):
To be propelled by an air current.
Examples:
"The leaves blow through the streets in the fall."
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Blow as a verb (transitive):
To create or shape by blowing; as in to blow bubbles, to blow glass.
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Blow as a verb:
To force a current of air upon with the mouth, or by other means.
Examples:
"to blow the fire"
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Blow as a verb:
To clear of contents by forcing air through.
Examples:
"to blow an egg"
"to blow one's nose"
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Blow as a verb (transitive):
To cause to make sound by blowing, as a musical instrument.
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Blow as a verb (intransitive):
To make a sound as the result of being blown.
Examples:
"In the harbor, the ships' horns blew."
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Blow as a verb (intransitive, of a [[cetacean]]):
To exhale visibly through the spout the seawater which it has taken in while feeding.
Examples:
"There's nothing more thrilling to the whale watcher than to see a whale surface and blow."
"There she blows! (i.e. "I see a whale spouting!")"
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Blow as a verb (intransitive):
To explode.
Examples:
"Get away from that burning gas tank! It's about to blow!"
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Blow as a verb (transitive, with "up", or, with prep phrase headed by "to"):
To cause to explode, shatter, or be utterly destroyed.
Examples:
"The demolition squad neatly blew the old hotel up."
"The aerosol can was blown to bits."
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Blow as a verb (transitive):
To cause sudden destruction of.
Examples:
"He blew the tires and the engine."
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Blow as a verb (intransitive):
To suddenly fail destructively.
Examples:
"He tried to sprint, but his ligaments blew and he was barely able to walk to the finish line."
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Blow as a verb (intransitive, slang):
To be very undesirable (see also suck).
Examples:
"This blows!"
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Blow as a verb (transitive, slang):
To recklessly squander.
Examples:
"I managed to blow $1000 at blackjack in under an hour."
"I blew $35 thou on a car."
"We blew an opportunity to get benign corporate sponsorship."
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Blow as a verb (transitive, vulgar):
To fellate; to perform oral sex on (usually a man)
Examples:
"Who did you have to blow to get those backstage passes?"
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Blow as a verb (transitive, slang):
To leave.
Examples:
"Let's blow this joint."
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Blow as a verb:
To make flyblown, to defile, especially with fly eggs.
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Blow as a verb (obsolete):
To spread by report; to publish; to disclose.
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Blow as a verb (obsolete):
To inflate, as with pride; to puff up.
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Blow as a verb (intransitive):
To breathe hard or quick; to pant; to puff.
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Blow as a verb (transitive):
To put out of breath; to cause to blow from fatigue.
Examples:
"to blow a horse"
"rfquotek Sir Walter Scott"
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Blow as a verb (obsolete):
To talk loudly; to boast; to storm.
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Blow as a verb (slang, informal, AAVE):
To sing
Examples:
"That girl has a wonderful voice; just listen to her blow!"
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Blow as a verb (Scientology, intransitive):
To leave the Church of Scientology in an unauthorized manner.
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Blow as a noun:
A strong wind.
Examples:
"We're having a bit of a blow this afternoon."
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Blow as a noun (informal):
A chance to catch one's breath.
Examples:
"The players were able to get a blow during the last timeout."
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Blow as a noun (uncountable, US, slang):
Cocaine.
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Blow as a noun (uncountable, UK, slang):
Cannabis.
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Blow as a noun (uncountable, US Chicago Regional, slang):
Heroin.
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Blow as a noun:
the act of striking or hitting
Examples:
"A fabricator is used to direct a sharp blow to the surface of the stone."
"During an exchange to end round 13, Duran landed a blow to the midsection."
"synonyms: bace strike hit punch"
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Blow as a noun:
a sudden or forcible act or effort; an assault
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Blow as a noun:
a damaging occurrence.
Examples:
"A further blow to the group came in 1917 when Thomson died while canoeing in Algonquin Park."
"synonyms: disaster calamity"
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Blow as a verb:
to blossom; to cause to bloom or blossom
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Blow as a noun:
a mass or display of flowers; a yield
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Blow as a noun:
a display of anything brilliant or bright
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Blow as a noun:
a bloom, state of flowering
Examples:
"roses in full blow."
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Box as a noun (figuratively):
A cuboid space; a cuboid container, often with a hinged lid. A cuboid container and its contents; as much as fills such a container. A compartment (as a drawer) of an item of furniture used for storage, such as a cupboard, a shelf, etc. A compartment or receptacle for receiving items. # A numbered receptacle at a newspaper office for anonymous replies to advertisements. #* ,|date=1 December 1924|volume=XXIX|issue=6|page=618|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=gz5LAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA618|column=2|oclc=58938924|passage=Add five words for address if replies are to come to a box number address at any of our offices. These replies are forwarded each day as received, in new envelopes at no extra charge. When replying to blind ads be careful to put on your envelope the correct box number and do not enclose original letters of recommendation—send copies.}} A compartment to sit inside in an auditorium, courtroom, theatre or other building. The driver's seat on a horse-drawn coach. A small rectangular shelter; a booth. A predicament or trap. A coffin. Preceded by : television. The vagina. A computer, or the case in which it is housed. A hard protector for the genitals worn inside the underpants by a batsman or close fielder. A cylindrical casing around the axle of a wheel, a bearing, a , etc. A device used in electric fencing to detect whether a weapon has struck an opponent, which connects to a fencer's weapon by a spool and body wire. It uses lights and sound to notify a hit, with different coloured lights for on target and off target hits. A small country house.
Examples:
"a box of books"
"[[post box post box]]  [[post office box post office box]]"
"[[sentry-box sentry-box]]"
"I’m really in a box now."
"a UNIX box'"
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Box as a noun (baseball):
A rectangle: an oblong or a square. The rectangle in which the batter stands. One of two specific regions in a promoter. A pattern usually performed with three balls where the movements of the balls make a boxlike shape. The penalty area.
Examples:
"Place a tick in the box."
"This text would stand out better if we put it in a coloured box."
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Box as a verb (transitive):
To place inside a box; to pack in one or more boxes.
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Box as a verb (transitive):
Usually followed by : to surround and enclose in a way that restricts movement; to corner, to hem in.
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Box as a verb (transitive):
To mix two containers of paint of similar colour to ensure that the color is identical.
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Box as a verb (transitive, agriculture):
To make an incision or hole in (a tree) for the purpose of procuring the sap.
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Box as a verb (transitive, architecture):
To enclose with boarding, lathing, etc., so as to conceal (for example, pipes) or to bring to a required form.
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Box as a verb (transitive, engineering):
To furnish (for example, the axle of a wheel) with a box.
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Box as a verb (transitive, graphic design, printing):
To enclose (images, text, etc.) in a box.
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Box as a verb (transitive, object-oriented programming):
To place a value of a primitive type into a corresponding object.
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Box as a noun:
Any of various evergreen shrubs or trees of the genus , especially the common box, , or boxwood (Buxus sempervirens) which is often used for making hedges and topiary.
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Box as a noun:
The wood from a box tree: boxwood.
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Box as a noun (musical instrument, slang):
A musical instrument, especially one made from boxwood.
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Box as a noun (Australia):
An evergreen tree of the genus Lophostemon (for example, the , , , pink box, or , ).
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Box as a noun:
A blow with the fist.
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Box as a verb (transitive):
To strike with the fists; to punch.
Examples:
"'box someone’s ears"
"Leave this place before I box you!"
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Box as a verb (transitive, boxing):
To fight against (a person) in a boxing match.
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Box as a verb (intransitive, boxing):
To participate in boxing; to be a boxer.
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Box as a noun (dated):
A Mediterranean food fish of the genus , which is a variety of sea bream; a bogue or oxeye.
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