The difference between Box and Tube

When used as nouns, box means a cuboid space, whereas tube means anything that is hollow and cylindrical in shape.

When used as verbs, box means to place inside a box, whereas tube means to make or use tubes.

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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. Tube as a noun:

    Anything that is hollow and cylindrical in shape.

  2. Tube as a noun:

    An approximately cylindrical container, usually with a crimped end and a screw top, used to contain and dispense semiliquid substances.

    Examples:

    "A tube of toothpaste."

  3. Tube as a noun (British, colloquial, often capitalized as [[Tube]]):

    The London Underground railway system, originally referred to the lower level lines that ran in tubular tunnels as opposed to the higher ones which ran in rectangular section tunnels. (Often the tube.)

    Examples:

    "I took the tube to Waterloo and walked the rest of the way."

  4. Tube as a noun (Australia, slang):

    A tin can containing beer (or other beverage?).

  5. Tube as a noun (surfing):

    A wave which pitches forward when breaking, creating a hollow space inside.

  6. Tube as a noun (North America, colloquial):

    A television. Also, derisively, boob tube. British: telly.

    Examples:

    "Are you just going to sit around all day and watch the tube?"

  7. Tube as a noun (Scotland):

    Idiot.

  1. Tube as a verb:

    To make or use tubes

    Examples:

    "She tubes lipstick."

    "They tubed down the Colorado River."

  2. Tube as a verb (medicine, colloquial):

    To intubate

    Examples:

    "patient is tubed'"

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