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boxhaul |
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boxing
| boxing day
| boxing equipment
| boxing glove
| boxing match
| boxing ring
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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun boxing has 2 senses
- boxing(n = noun.act) fisticuffs, pugilism - fighting with the fists; Array is a kind of contact sport
- boxing(n = noun.act) packing - the enclosure of something in a package or box; Array is a kind of enclosing, enclosure, envelopment, inclosure
has particulars: professional boxing, in-fighting, fight, rope-a-dope, spar, sparring
Derived forms verb box3, verb box2
has particulars: bundling
Derived form verb box1
CIDE DICTIONARY
boxing, n.
- The act of inclosing (anything) in a box, as for storage or transportation. [1913 Webster]
- Material used in making boxes or casings. [1913 Webster]
- Any boxlike inclosure or recess; a casing. [1913 Webster]
- The external case of thin material used to bring any member to a required form. [1913 Webster]
boxing, n.
The act of fighting with the fist; a combat with the fist; sparring; pugilism. Blackstone. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
boxing, n. the practice of fighting with the fists, esp. in padded gloves as a sport.
Idiom
boxing glove each of a pair of heavily padded gloves used in boxing. boxing weight each of a series of fixed weight-ranges at which boxers are matched.
THESAURUS
boxing
Chinese boxing, bottling, bout, boxing match, canning, close fighting, crating, encasement, fighting, fisticuffs, infighting, package, packaging, packing, prizefight, prizefighting, pugilism, ring, savate, shadowboxing, spar, the clinches, the fights, the ring, tinningROGET THESAURUS
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Contention
N contention, strife, contest, contestation, struggle, belligerency, opposition, controversy, polemics, debate, war of words, logomachy, litigation, paper war, high words, sparring, competition, rivalry, corrivalry, corrivalship, agonism, concours, match, race, horse racing, heat, steeple chase, handicap, regatta, field day, sham fight, Derby day, turf, sporting, bullfight, tauromachy, gymkhana, boat race, torpids, wrestling, greco-roman wrestling, pugilism, boxing, fisticuffs, the manly art of self-defense, spar, mill, set-to, round, bout, event, prize fighting, quarterstaff, single stick, gladiatorship, gymnastics, jiujitsu, jujutsu, kooshti, sumo, athletics, athletic sports, games of skill, shindy, fracas, clash of arms, tussle, scuffle, broil, fray, affray, affrayment, velitation, colluctation, luctation, brabble, brigue, scramble, melee, scrimmage, stramash, bushfighting, free fight, stand up fight, hand to hand, running fight, conflict, skirmish, rencounter, encounter, rencontre, collision, affair, brush, fight, battle, battle royal, combat, action, engagement, joust, tournament, tilt, tilting, tournay, list, pitched battle, death struggle, struggle for life or death, life or death struggle, Armageddon, hard knocks, sharp contest, tug of war, naval engagement, naumachia, sea fight, duel, duello, single combat, monomachy, satisfaction, passage d'armes, passage of arms, affair of honor, triangular duel, hostile meeting, digladiation, deeds of arms, feats of arms, appeal to arms, pugnacity, combativeness, bone of contention, contending, together by the ears, at loggerheads, at war, at issue, competitive, rival, belligerent, contentious, combative, bellicose, unpeaceful, warlike, quarrelsome, pugnacious, pugilistic, gladiatorial, palestric, palestrical, a verbis ad verbera, a word and a blow, a very pretty quarrel as it stands, commune periculum concordiam parit, lis litem generat.
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