To think or act outside the box "contrary to convention" is attested by 1994. The box set "multiple-album, CD or cassette issue of the work of an artist" is attested by 1955. World War II, perhaps originally Australian, on notion of "box of tricks." Box lunch (n.) attested from 1899. Slang meaning "vulva" is attested 17c., according to "Dictionary of American Slang " modern use seems to date from c. Graphics sense "space enclosed within borders and rules" is from 1929. Meaning "station of a player in baseball" is from 1881. Patrick Radden Keefe is an award-winning staff writer at The New Yorker and the bestselling author of five books, including Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty, which received the Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction and was a finalist for the FT Business Book of the Year, and Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland, which received the National. Meaning "television" is from 1950 (earlier "gramophone player," 1924). Meaning "pigeon-hole at a post office" is from 1832. 1600 ( box seat in the theatrical sense is by 1850). Meaning "compartment at a theater" is from c. Our school participates in Scholastic Book Club to encourage our students to read independently for fun. Dutch bus, German Büchse "box barrel of a gun," also are Latin loan-words. Beekes suggests a loan-word from Italy, as that is where the tree is native. "rectangular wooden container," usually with a lid, Old English box, also the name of a type of shrub, from Late Latin buxis, from Greek pyxis "boxwood," pyxion "writing table, box," made of boxwood, from pyxos "box tree," which is of uncertain origin.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |