(OS grid ref SO8600) A village in Minchinhampton parish, south of Stroud, Gloucestershire, England .

(OS grid ref ST8268) A village near Corsham, Wiltshire, England .

A three-dimensional object or space that can refer to a cuboid container, a compartment for storage, a shelter, a seat, a predicament, a prison cell, a coffin, a television, a computer, a gym, a protector for genitals in cricket, a fielding position in cricket, a cylindrical casing, a device in fencing, or a stringed instrument with a soundbox.

A two-dimensional object or space that can refer to a rectangle, the batter's area in baseball, specific regions in genetics, a juggling pattern, box lacrosse, the penalty area in soccer, or a diamond-shaped flying formation in aviation.

(geometry, by extension) A rectangular object in any number of dimensions.

Any of various evergreen shrubs or trees of genus Buxus, especially common box, European box, or boxwood (Buxus sempervirens) which is often used for making hedges and topiary.

The wood from a box tree: boxwood.

(music, slang) A musical instrument, especially one made from boxwood.

(Australia) An evergreen tree of the genus Lophostemon (for example, box scrub, Brisbane box, brush box, pink box, or Queensland box, Lophostemon confertus).

(Australia) Various species of Eucalyptus trees are popularly called various kinds of boxes, on the basis of the nature of their wood, bark, or appearance for example, the drooping box (Eucalyptus bicolor), shiny-leaved box (Eucalyptus tereticornis), black box, or ironbark box trees.

A blow with the fist.

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

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

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

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

(transitive, architecture) To enclose with boarding, lathing, etc., so as to conceal (for example, pipes) or to bring to a required form.

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

(transitive, graphic design, printing) To enclose (images, text, etc.) in a box.

(transitive, object-oriented programming) To place a value of a primitive type into a corresponding object.

(transitive) To strike with the fists; to punch.

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

(intransitive, stative, boxing) To participate in boxing; to be a boxer.