boxing

Material used for making boxes or casing.

Noun

  1. Material used for making boxes or casing.
  2. Casing.
  3. Automatic conversion of value types to objects by wrapping them within a heap-allocated reference type.

Origin

Etymology tree English box English -ing English boxing From box + -ing.

Forms

boxings

Antonyms

unboxing

Hyponyms

autoboxing

Derived

blue boxing Boxing Day boxing time

Noun hobbies, lifestyle

  1. A sport where two opponents punch each other with gloved fists to head and torso; the object being to score more points by the end of the match or by knockout, or technical knockout.
    • So Ukraine is on the ropes. Using that boxing metaphor, one immediately thinks of the new world heavyweight champion, the Ukrainian Oleksandr Usyk, who was seemingly down and out under the ferocious assault of the giant...

Origin

Etymology tree Middle English box English box Proto-Germanic *-ungō Old English -ung Middle English -ynge English -ing English boxing From box (“to punch”) + -ing.

Synonyms

fisticuffs pugilism sparring

Hyponyms

kickboxing shadowboxing

Related

box boxer clinch down for the count fancy footwork left hook on the canvas on the mat on the ropes prizefighting ring uppercut wrestling

Derived

antiboxing bare-knuckle boxing boxaerobics boxercise boxing bag boxing glove boxing kangaroo boxing match boxing ring Burmese boxing cage boxing chess boxing drunken boxing foxy boxing kick-boxing kickboxing nonboxing postboxing shadow boxing shadow-boxing shadowboxing soft boxing Tae Bo Thai boxing

Verb form of, gerund

  1. present participle and gerund of box

Verb form of, gerund

  1. present participle and gerund of box

Wikipedia

Boxing