Boxing vs. Clinch — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Boxing and Clinch
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Boxing
Boxing is a combat sport in which two people, usually wearing protective gloves and other protective equipment such as hand wraps and mouthguards, throw punches at each other for a predetermined amount of time in a boxing ring. Amateur boxing is both an Olympic and Commonwealth Games sport and is a standard fixture in most international games—it also has its own World Championships.
Clinch
Confirm or settle (a contract or bargain)
The Texan wanted to impress him to clinch a business deal
Boxing
A container typically constructed with four sides perpendicular to the base and often having a lid or cover.
Clinch
Grapple at close quarters, especially (of boxers) so as to be too closely engaged for full-arm blows.
Boxing
The amount or quantity that such a container can hold.
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Clinch
Secure (a nail or rivet) by driving the point sideways when it has penetrated.
Boxing
A square or rectangle
Draw a box around your answer.
Clinch
A struggle or scuffle at close quarters
Breaking from a clinch, he crossed with his right
Boxing
A separated compartment in a public place of entertainment, such as a theater or stadium, for the accommodation of a small group.
Clinch
A knot used to fasten ropes or angling lines, using a half hitch with the end seized back on its own part.
Boxing
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.
Clinch
To fix or secure (a nail or bolt, for example) by bending down or flattening the pointed end that protrudes.
Boxing
A small structure serving as a shelter
A sentry box.
Clinch
To fasten together in this way.
Boxing
Chiefly British A small country house used as a sporting lodge
A shooting box.
Clinch
To settle definitely and conclusively; make final
"The cocktail circuit is a constant and more contracts are clinched over pâté than over paper" (Ann L. Trebbe).
Boxing
A box stall.
Clinch
(Sports) To secure (a divisional championship, for instance) before the end of regular season play by having an insurmountable lead.
Boxing
The raised seat for the driver of a coach or carriage.
Clinch
To fasten with a clinch knot.
Boxing
An area on a diamond marked by lines designating where the batter may stand.
Clinch
To be held together securely.
Boxing
Any of various designated areas for other team members, such as the pitcher, catcher, and coaches.
Clinch
(Sports) To hold a boxing opponent's body with one or both arms to prevent or hinder punches.
Boxing
A penalty box.
Clinch
(Slang) To embrace amorously.
Boxing
The penalty area on a soccer field.
Clinch
Something, such as a clamp, that clinches.
Boxing
(Printing) Featured printed matter enclosed by hairlines, a border, or white space and placed within or between text columns.
Clinch
The clinched part of a nail, bolt, or rivet.
Boxing
A hollow made in the side of a tree for the collection of sap.
Clinch
(Sports) An act or instance of clinching in boxing.
Boxing
A post office box.
Clinch
A clinch knot.
Boxing
An inbox.
Clinch
(Slang) An amorous embrace.
Boxing
An outbox.
Clinch
To clasp; to interlock.
Boxing
An insulating, enclosing, or protective casing or part in a machine.
Clinch
To make certain; to finalize.
I already planned to buy the car, but the color was what really clinched it for me.
Boxing
A signaling device enclosed in a casing
An alarm box.
Clinch
To fasten securely or permanently.
Boxing
A cable box.
Clinch
To bend and hammer the point of (a nail) so it cannot be removed.
Boxing
(Informal) A television.
Clinch
To embrace passionately.
Boxing
A very large portable radio.
Clinch
To hold firmly; to clench.
Boxing
Chiefly British A gift or gratuity, especially one given at Christmas.
Clinch
To set closely together; to close tightly.
To clinch the teeth or the fist
Boxing
An awkward or perplexing situation; a predicament.
Clinch
Any of several fastenings.
Boxing
Vulgar Slang The vulva and the vagina.
Clinch
The act or process of holding fast; that which serves to hold fast.
To get a good clinch of an antagonist, or of a weapon
To secure anything by a clinch
Boxing
Material used for boxes.
Clinch
(obsolete) A pun.
Boxing
A boxlike covering or enclosure.
Clinch
(nautical) A hitch or bend by which a rope is made fast to the ring of an anchor, or the breeching of a ship's gun to the ringbolts.
Boxing
The act of enclosing in a box.
Clinch
A passionate embrace.
Boxing
The act, activity, or sport of fighting with the fists, especially according to rules requiring the use of boxing gloves and limiting legal blows to those striking above the waist and on the front or sides of the opponent.
Clinch
The act of one or both fighters holding onto the other to prevent being hit or engage in standup grappling.
Boxing
A slap or blow with the hand or fist
A box on the ear.
Clinch
A prison sentence.
Boxing
To pack in a box.
Clinch
To hold firmly; to hold fast by grasping or embracing tightly.
Boxing
To confine in or as if in a box.
Clinch
To set closely together; to close tightly; as, to clinch the teeth or the first.
Boxing
To border or enclose with or as if with a box
Key sections of the report are boxed off.
Clinch
To bend or turn over the point of (something that has been driven through an object), so that it will hold fast; as, to clinch a nail.
Boxing
To provide a housing or case for (a machine part, for example).
Clinch
To make conclusive; to confirm; to establish; as, to clinch an argument.
Boxing
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.
Clinch
To hold fast; to grasp something firmly; to seize or grasp one another.
Boxing
(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.
Clinch
The act or process of holding fast; that which serves to hold fast; a grip; a grasp; a clamp; a holdfast; as, to get a good clinch of an antagonist, or of a weapon; to secure anything by a clinch.
Boxing
(Nautical) To boxhaul.
Clinch
A pun.
Boxing
To cut a hole in (a tree) for the collection of sap.
Clinch
A hitch or bend by which a rope is made fast to the ring of an anchor, or the breeching of a ship's gun to the ringbolts.
Boxing
To blend (paint) by pouring alternately between two containers.
Clinch
(boxing) the act of one boxer holding onto the other to avoid being hit and to rest momentarily
Boxing
To change the shape of (a structure, such as a wall) by applying lath and plaster or boarding.
Clinch
A small slip noose made with seizing
Boxing
To hit with the hand or fist.
Clinch
The flattened part of a nail or bolt or rivet
Boxing
(Sports) To take part in a boxing match with.
Clinch
A tight or amorous embrace;
Come here and give me a big hug
Boxing
To fight with the fists or in a boxing match.
Clinch
Secure or fasten by flattening the ends of nails or bolts;
The girder was clinched into the wall
Boxing
Present participle of box
Clinch
Hold a boxing opponent with one or both arms so as to prevent punches
Boxing
Present participle of box
Clinch
Hold in a tight grasp;
Clench a steering wheel
Boxing
(sports) 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.
Clinch
Embrace amorously
Boxing
Material used for making boxes or casing.
Clinch
Flatten the ends (of nails and rivets);
The nails were clinched
Boxing
(construction) Casing.
Clinch
Settle conclusively;
Clinch a deal
Boxing
(object-oriented programming) Automatic conversion of value types to objects by wrapping them within a heap-allocated reference type.
Boxing
The act of inclosing (anything) in a box, as for storage or transportation.
Boxing
Material used in making boxes or casings.
Boxing
Any boxlike inclosure or recess; a casing.
Boxing
The external case of thin material used to bring any member to a required form.
Boxing
The act of fighting with the fist; a combat with the fist; sparring; pugilism.
Boxing
Fighting with the fists
Boxing
The enclosure of something in a package or box
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