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Box vs. Caddy — What's the Difference?

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Box

A box (plural: boxes) is a type of container or rectangular prism used for the storage or transportation of its contents. The size of a box may vary, from the very smallest (such as a matchbox) to the size of a large appliance, and can be used for a variety of purposes ranging from the functional to the decorative.

Caddy

A small storage container, typically one with divisions
A tool caddy

Box

A container with a flat base and sides, typically square or rectangular and having a lid
A hat box
A cigarette box

Caddy

Variant spelling of caddie

Box

An area on a page that is to be filled in or that contains separate printed matter
Tick the box on the coupon
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Caddy

Variant spelling of caddie

Box

A separate section or enclosed area reserved for a group of people in a theatre or sports ground, or for witnesses or the jury in a law court
The royal box

Caddy

A small container, such as a box, used especially for holding tea.

Box

A protective casing for a piece of a mechanism
In the second variation, a switch loop, only one cable enters the box

Caddy

A container for storing a group of items not in use.

Box

A facility at a newspaper office for receiving replies to an advertisement
Write to me care of Box 112

Caddy

(Computers) A protective case used to load a CD-ROM into a disk drive.

Box

A woman's vagina.

Caddy

Variant of caddie.

Box

A slap with the hand on the side of a person's head
She gave him a box on the ear

Caddy

One hired to serve as an attendant to a golfer, especially by carrying the golf clubs.

Box

A slow-growing European evergreen shrub or small tree with small glossy dark green leaves. It is widely used in hedging and for topiary, and yields hard, heavy timber.

Caddy

(Scots) A boy who does odd jobs.

Box

Any of a number of trees that have wood or foliage similar to the box tree.

Caddy

A lightweight wheeled cart, often fitted with shelves or racks.

Box

Put in or provide with a box
The books are sold as a boxed set
Muriel boxed up all Christopher's clothes

Caddy

A small tray with a handle and compartments for holding items such as toiletries or hardware.

Box

Mix up different flocks.

Caddy

A lightweight freestanding rack designed to hold accessories.

Box

Fight an opponent using one's fists; compete in the sport of boxing
He had to box Benn for the title
He boxed for England

Caddy

A small wheeled cart attached to a bicycle and used as a conveyance for a child.

Box

Recite the compass points in correct order.

Caddy

To serve as a caddie.

Box

Make a complete change of direction
By now the breeze had boxed the compass

Caddy

A small box or tin (can) with a lid for holding dried tea leaves used to brew tea.

Box

A container typically constructed with four sides perpendicular to the base and often having a lid or cover.

Caddy

(by extension)

Box

The amount or quantity that such a container can hold.

Caddy

A (usually small) box, chest, or tin with a lid, and often with partitions, used to keep things in.

Box

A square or rectangle
Draw a box around your answer.

Caddy

A movable tray or other mechanism for holding (sometimes within a piece of equipment or machinery), securing, and transporting a removable component.
Place the disc in the DVD caddy.

Box

A separated compartment in a public place of entertainment, such as a theater or stadium, for the accommodation of a small group.

Caddy

A lightweight wheeled cart; specifically, one attached to a bicycle as a conveyance for a child, or pulled by hand and used to transport groceries away from a shop.

Box

An area of a public place, such as a courtroom or stadium, marked off and restricted for use by persons performing a specific function
A jury box.

Caddy

Alternative spelling of caddie
Caddy, pass me my five iron.

Box

A small structure serving as a shelter
A sentry box.

Caddy

Chiefly followed by for: caddie (“to serve as a caddy (noun sense) for a golfer”)
I was honored to caddy for Tiger Woods at a charity golf game.

Box

Chiefly British A small country house used as a sporting lodge
A shooting box.

Caddy

A small box, can, or chest to keep tea in, also called tea caddy.

Box

A box stall.

Caddy

A container to hold objects when not in use.

Box

The raised seat for the driver of a coach or carriage.

Caddy

A container to hold a compact disk, used in some types of compact disk devices, which is inserted into the CD player during playing, or in the case of recordable CD-ROMS, during recording. It is approximately square and thin, slightly larger than the compact disk. However, many CD players have a drawer for the compact disk, requiring no caddy.

Box

An area on a diamond marked by lines designating where the batter may stand.

Caddy

A can for storing tea

Box

Any of various designated areas for other team members, such as the pitcher, catcher, and coaches.

Caddy

Act as a caddie and carry clubs for a player

Box

A penalty box.

Box

The penalty area on a soccer field.

Box

(Printing) Featured printed matter enclosed by hairlines, a border, or white space and placed within or between text columns.

Box

A hollow made in the side of a tree for the collection of sap.

Box

A post office box.

Box

An inbox.

Box

An outbox.

Box

An insulating, enclosing, or protective casing or part in a machine.

Box

A signaling device enclosed in a casing
An alarm box.

Box

A cable box.

Box

(Informal) A television.

Box

A very large portable radio.

Box

Chiefly British A gift or gratuity, especially one given at Christmas.

Box

An awkward or perplexing situation; a predicament.

Box

Vulgar Slang The vulva and the vagina.

Box

A slap or blow with the hand or fist
A box on the ear.

Box

Any of several evergreen shrubs or trees of the genus Buxus, especially the Eurasian species B. sempervirens, widely cultivated as a hedge plant and having opposite, leathery, dark green leaves and small whitish flowers.

Box

The hard, light yellow wood of any of these plants, formerly widely used to make musical instruments, inlays, engraving blocks, and measuring instruments. Also called boxwood.

Box

Any of various other shrubs or trees with similar foliage or timber, especially several types of eucalyptus.

Box

To pack in a box.

Box

To confine in or as if in a box.

Box

To border or enclose with or as if with a box
Key sections of the report are boxed off.

Box

To provide a housing or case for (a machine part, for example).

Box

To limit the activity or influence of by or as if by creating a restrictive structure or outlining a territory
The legislature was boxed in by its earlier decisions.

Box

(Sports) To block (a competitor or opponent) from advancing, especially to hinder an opponent from getting a rebound in basketball by placing oneself between the opponent and the basket
Was boxed out by the tallest player on the team.
Was boxed in on the homestretch.

Box

(Nautical) To boxhaul.

Box

To cut a hole in (a tree) for the collection of sap.

Box

To blend (paint) by pouring alternately between two containers.

Box

To change the shape of (a structure, such as a wall) by applying lath and plaster or boarding.

Box

To hit with the hand or fist.

Box

(Sports) To take part in a boxing match with.

Box

To fight with the fists or in a boxing match.

Box

Senses relating to a three-dimensional object or space.

Box

A cuboid space; a cuboid container, often with a hinged lid.

Box

A cuboid container and its contents; as much as fills such a container.
A box of books

Box

A compartment (as a drawer) of an item of furniture used for storage, such as a cupboard, a shelf, etc.

Box

A compartment or receptacle for receiving items.
Post box
Post office box

Box

A compartment to sit inside in an auditorium, courtroom, theatre, or other building.

Box

The driver's seat on a horse-drawn coach.

Box

A small rectangular shelter.

Box

(automotive) gearbox

Box

(rail) signal box

Box

(figuratively) A predicament or trap.
I’m really in a box now.

Box

(slang) A prison cell.

Box

(euphemistic) A coffin.

Box

(slang) Preceded by the: television.

Box

The vagina.

Box

A computer, or the case in which it is housed.
A UNIX box

Box

(slang) A gym dedicated to the CrossFit exercise program.

Box

(cricket) A hard protector for the genitals worn inside the underpants by a batsman or close fielder.

Box

(cricket) gully

Box

(engineering) A cylindrical casing around the axle of a wheel, a bearing, a gland, etc.

Box

(fencing) 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.

Box

(dated) A small country house.

Box

A stringed instrument with a soundbox, especially a guitar.

Box

Senses relating to a two-dimensional object or space

Box

A rectangle: an oblong or a square.
Place a tick in the box.
This text would stand out better if we put it in a coloured box.

Box

(baseball) The rectangle in which the batter stands.

Box

(genetics) One of two specific regions in a promoter.

Box

(juggling) A pattern usually performed with three balls where the movements of the balls make a boxlike shape.

Box

(soccer) The penalty area.

Box

(aviation) A diamond-shaped flying formation consisting of four aircraft.

Box

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.

Box

The wood from a box tree: boxwood.

Box

A musical instrument, especially one made from boxwood.

Box

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

Box

(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 (Eucalyptus bicolor), shiny-leaved (Eucalyptus tereticornis), black, or ironbark box trees.

Box

A blow with the fist.

Box

(dated) A Mediterranean food fish of the genus Boops, which is a variety of sea bream; a bogue or oxeye.

Box

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

Box

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

Box

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

Box

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

Box

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

Box

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

Box

To enclose (images, text, etc.) in a box.

Box

To place a value of a primitive type into a corresponding object.

Box

(transitive) To strike with the fists; to punch.
Box someone’s ears
Leave this place before I box you!

Box

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

Box

To participate in boxing; to be a boxer.

Box

A tree or shrub, flourishing in different parts of the world. The common box (Buxus sempervirens) has two varieties, one of which, the dwarf box (Buxus suffruticosa), is much used for borders in gardens. The wood of the tree varieties, being very hard and smooth, is extensively used in the arts, as by turners, engravers, mathematical instrument makers, etc.

Box

A receptacle or case of any firm material and of various shapes.

Box

The quantity that a box contain.

Box

A space with a few seats partitioned off in a theater, or other place of public amusement.
Laughed at by the pit, box, galleries, nay, stage.
The boxes and the pit are sovereign judges.

Box

A chest or any receptacle for the deposit of money; as, a poor box; a contribution box.
Yet since his neighbors give, the churl unlocks,Damning the poor, his tripple-bolted box.

Box

A small country house.
Tight boxes neatly sashed.

Box

A boxlike shed for shelter; as, a sentry box.

Box

An axle box, journal box, journal bearing, or bushing.

Box

The driver's seat on a carriage or coach.

Box

A present in a box; a present; esp. a Christmas box or gift.

Box

The square in which the pitcher stands.

Box

A Mediterranean food fish; the bogue.

Box

A blow on the head or ear with the hand.
A good-humored box on the ear.

Box

To inclose in a box.

Box

To furnish with boxes, as a wheel.

Box

To inclose with boarding, lathing, etc., so as to bring to a required form.

Box

To fight with the fist; to combat with, or as with, the hand or fist; to spar.

Box

To strike with the hand or fist, especially to strike on the ear, or on the side of the head.

Box

To boxhaul.

Box

A (usually rectangular) container; may have a lid;
He rummaged through a box of spare parts

Box

Private area in a theater or grandstand where a small group can watch the performance;
The royal box was empty

Box

The quantity contained in a box;
He gave her a box of chocolates

Box

A predicament from which a skillful or graceful escape is impossible;
His lying got him into a tight corner

Box

A rectangular drawing;
The flowchart contained many boxes

Box

Evergreen shrubs or small trees

Box

Any one of several designated areas on a ball field where the batter or catcher or coaches are positioned;
The umpire warned the batter to stay in the batter's box

Box

The driver's seat on a coach;
An armed guard sat in the box with the driver

Box

Separate partitioned area in a public place for a few people;
The sentry stayed in his box to avoid the cold

Box

A blow with the hand (usually on the ear);
I gave him a good box on the ear

Box

Put into a box;
Box the gift, please

Box

Hit with the fist;
I'll box your ears!

Box

Engage in a boxing match

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