What is the name meaning of BOX. Phrases containing BOX
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BOX
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English
English : from Old French cof(f)re ‘chest’, ‘box’, applied as a metonymic occupational name for a maker of coffers or chests or, by extension, for a treasurer.Probably an Americanized spelling of German Kaufer or Kauffer (see Kaufer).
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English
English : habitational name from Bushey in Hertfordshire, so named with an Old English bysce or byxe ‘box’ + hæg ‘enclosure’.Americanized spelling of French Boucher.Americanized spelling of German Büsche (see Busche) or Swiss German Büschi, a variant of Busch.
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English
English : from Anglo-Norman French cas(s)e ‘case’, ‘container’ (from Latin capsa), hence a metonymic occupational name for a maker of boxes or chests.Americanized spelling of French Caisse.Americanized spelling of Kaas.Americanized spelling of German Käse, a metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller of cheese. Compare Kaeser.
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Tamil
A box
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English
English : habitational name from a place in Kent named Boxley, from Old English box ‘box (tree)’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’, or some other place similarly named.Americanized form of Swiss German Boxler.
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Arabic, Muslim
Beautiful Woman; A Box in which Perfumes are Kept
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English
English : variant of Box, with the addition of the agent suffix -er.Jewish (from Poland and Ukraine) : from an Americanized spelling of Yiddish bokser ‘St. John’s bread’, presumably an ornamental name.
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Greek
All-gift. In Greek mythology, Pandora's curiosity led her to open a mysterious box, thereby...
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English
English : habitational name from Bexley (now Bexleyheath in Greater London), which was named from Old English byxe ‘box tree’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
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Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu
Treasure Chest; A Box; With a Sweet Voice; A Box of Jewels; Lady with a Sweet Voice
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Hindu
A box
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English
English : from Middle English, Old English box ‘box tree’ (Latin buxus), in any of a number of possible applications. It may have been a topographic name for someone who lived by a box thicket, a habitational name from one of the places called Box, in Gloucestershire, Hertfordshire, and Wiltshire, or a metonymic occupational name for someone who worked box wood, which is very hard and for this reason was used to make a variety of tools. In some cases it may even have been a nickname for a person with pale or yellow skin, for example as the result of jaundice, a reference to the color of box wood.
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English and Scottish
English and Scottish : from the usual vernacular English form (recorded from the 13th century onward) of the New Testament Greek personal name Andreas.The surname Andrew was first brought to North America from England by Robert Andrew (died 1668), who settled in Boxford, MA.
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English
English : unexplained.The name was brought to Watertown, MA, by John Sawin (b. about 1620 in Boxford, Suffolk, England).
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English
English : topographic name for someone who lived by a piece of ground used for playing games, from Middle English pleye ‘play’ + sted(e) ‘place’, hence ‘place for play or sport’. In some cases it may be a habitational name from Chapel Plaster in Box, Wiltshire. Compare Plaster 2.
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German
German : variant of Buss.North German (Büsse) : metonymic occupational name for a maker of boxes and containers or for a gunsmith, from Middle Low German büsse, busse ‘box’, ‘gun’, ‘rifle’.English : variant spelling of Buss.
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English
English : habitational name from a lost hamlet near Kirford, Sussex, called Boxholte, from Old English box ‘box’ + holt ‘wood’. The surname has been found in the area since the 14th century.
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Hindu, Indian, Traditional
A Box
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English and Scottish
English and Scottish : of uncertain derivation, but possibly a metonymic occupational name for a turner or cutler; the word dudgeon denoted the wood (probably boxwood) used in the handles of knives and daggers in the Middle Ages. Alternatively, it could be a diminutive form of Dodge. The name was taken to northern Ireland in the 17th century.
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English
English : habitational name from a place in Gloucestershire named Boxwell, from Old English box ‘box (tree)’ + wella ‘spring’, ‘stream’.
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Arabic, French
Beloved
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Indian, Telugu
Lord of Vishnu
Biblical
father of judgment,father of the judge
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Muslim
Act of kindness. Benefaction. Bestowal.
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Indian
Learned, Intelligent, Grain, Wise
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Hindu, Indian, Tamil
One who has Lotus in his Stomach (Vishnu); Lord Shiva
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American, Australian, British, Chinese, Christian, Danish, English, French, German, Irish, Italian, Jamaican, Latin
Kind One; Tree; Peace; Pure
Biblical
deliverance, flight
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Hindu
Girl with lots of wealth
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Celtic Dutch
Fair, good-looking. Feminine of Allen or.
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p. pr. & vb. n.
of Box
v. t.
To inclose in a box.
n.
Material used in making boxes or casings.
v. t.
To boxhaul.
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A method of going from one tack to another. See Boxhaul.
n.
One who boxes; a pugilist.
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One who packs boxes.
n.
Any boxlike inclosure or recess; a casing.
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A present in a box; a present; esp. a Christmas box or gift.
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The act of inclosing (anything) in a box, as for storage or transportation.
n.
The wood of the box (Buxus).
a.
Made of boxwood; pertaining to, or resembling, the box (Buxus).
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An attendant at a theater who has charge of the boxes.
v. t.
To furnish with boxes, as a wheel.
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An axle box, journal box, journal bearing, or bushing.
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A box containing lighted tinder, formerly carried by soldiers who used matchlocks, to kindle the match.
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of Boxhaul
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of Box