The difference between Box and Pack

When used as nouns, box means a cuboid space, whereas pack means a bundle made up and prepared to be carried.

When used as verbs, box means to place inside a box, whereas pack means to make a pack of.

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  1. 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'"

  2. 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."

  1. Box as a verb (transitive):

    To place inside a box; to pack in one or more boxes.

  2. Box as a verb (transitive):

    Usually followed by : to surround and enclose in a way that restricts movement; to corner, to hem in.

  3. Box as a verb (transitive):

    To mix two containers of paint of similar colour to ensure that the color is identical.

  4. Box as a verb (transitive, agriculture):

    To make an incision or hole in (a tree) for the purpose of procuring the sap.

  5. 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.

  6. Box as a verb (transitive, engineering):

    To furnish (for example, the axle of a wheel) with a box.

  7. Box as a verb (transitive, graphic design, printing):

    To enclose (images, text, etc.) in a box.

  8. Box as a verb (transitive, object-oriented programming):

    To place a value of a primitive type into a corresponding object.

  1. 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.

  2. Box as a noun:

    The wood from a box tree: boxwood.

  3. Box as a noun (musical instrument, slang):

    A musical instrument, especially one made from boxwood.

  4. Box as a noun (Australia):

    An evergreen tree of the genus Lophostemon (for example, the , , , pink box, or , ).

  1. Box as a noun:

    A blow with the fist.

  1. Box as a verb (transitive):

    To strike with the fists; to punch.

    Examples:

    "'box someone’s ears"

    "Leave this place before I box you!"

  2. Box as a verb (transitive, boxing):

    To fight against (a person) in a boxing match.

  3. Box as a verb (intransitive, boxing):

    To participate in boxing; to be a boxer.

  1. Box as a noun (dated):

    A Mediterranean food fish of the genus , which is a variety of sea bream; a bogue or oxeye.

  1. Pack as a noun:

    A bundle made up and prepared to be carried; especially, a bundle to be carried on the back, but also a load for an animal, a bale

    Examples:

    "The horses carried the packs across the plain."

  2. Pack as a noun:

    A number or quantity equal to the contents of a pack

  3. Pack as a noun:

    a multitude.

    Examples:

    "a pack of lies"

    "a pack of complaints"

  4. Pack as a noun:

    A number or quantity of connected or similar things; a collective.

  5. Pack as a noun:

    A full set of playing cards; also, the assortment used in a particular game

    Examples:

    "We were going to play cards, but nobody brought a pack."

  6. Pack as a noun:

    A number of hounds or dogs, hunting or kept together.

  7. Pack as a noun:

    A wolfpack: a number of wolves, hunting together.

  8. Pack as a noun:

    A number of persons associated or leagued in a bad design or practice; a gang.

    Examples:

    "a pack of thieves or knaves"

  9. Pack as a noun:

    A group of Cub Scouts.

  10. Pack as a noun:

    A shook of cask staves.

  11. Pack as a noun:

    A bundle of sheet-iron plates for rolling simultaneously.

  12. Pack as a noun:

    A large area of floating pieces of ice driven together more or less closely.

    Examples:

    "The ship had to sail round the pack of ice."

  13. Pack as a noun (medicine):

    An envelope, or wrapping, of sheets used in hydropathic practice, called dry pack, wet pack, cold pack, etc., according to the method of treatment.

  14. Pack as a noun (slang):

    A loose, lewd, or worthless person.

  15. Pack as a noun (snooker, pool):

    A tight group of object balls in cue sports. Usually the reds in snooker.

  16. Pack as a noun (rugby):

    The team on the field.

  1. Pack as a verb (physical):

    To put or bring things together in a limited or confined space, especially for storage or transport. To make a pack of; to arrange closely and securely in a pack; hence, to place and arrange compactly as in a pack; to press into close order or narrow compass. To fill in the manner of a pack, that is, compactly and securely, as for transportation; hence, to fill closely or to repletion; to stow away within; to cause to be full; to crowd into. To envelop in a wet or dry sheet, within numerous coverings. To render impervious, as by filling or surrounding with suitable material, or to fit or adjust so as to move without giving passage to air, water, or steam. To make up packs, bales, or bundles; to stow articles securely for transportation. To admit of stowage, or of making up for transportation or storage; to become compressed or to settle together, so as to form a compact mass. To gather in flocks or schools. To combine (telegraph messages) in order to send them more cheaply as a single transmission.

    Examples:

    "to pack goods in a box;  to pack fish"

    "to pack a trunk;  the play, or the audience, packs the theater"

    "The doctor gave Kelly some sulfa pills and packed his arm in hot-water bags."

    "to pack a joint;  to pack the piston of a steam engine;  pack someone's arm with ice."

    "the goods pack conveniently;  wet snow packs well"

    "the grouse or the perch begin to pack'"

  2. Pack as a verb (social):

    To cheat, to arrange matters unfairly. To sort and arrange (the cards) in a pack so as to secure the game unfairly. To bring together or make up unfairly and fraudulently, in order to secure a certain result. To contrive unfairly or fraudulently; to plot. To unite in bad measures; to confederate for ill purposes; to join in collusion.

    Examples:

    "to pack a jury"

  3. Pack as a verb (transitive):

    To load with a pack; hence, to load; to encumber.

    Examples:

    "to pack a horse"

  4. Pack as a verb (transitive):

    To move, send or carry. To cause to go; to send away with baggage or belongings; especially, to send away peremptorily or suddenly; – sometimes with off. See pack off. To transport in a pack, or in the manner of a pack (i. e., on the backs of men or animals). To depart in haste; – generally with off or away. To carry weapons, especially firearms, on one's person.

    Examples:

    "to pack a boy off to school"

  5. Pack as a verb (transitive, sports, slang):

    To block a shot, especially in basketball.

  6. Pack as a verb (intransitive, LGBT, _, slang, of a [[drag king]], [[transman]], etc.):

    To wear a prosthetic penis inside one's trousers for better verisimilitude.

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