boxing

See also: bóxīng

English

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Etymology 1

From box (“to punch”) +‎ -ingCategory:English terms suffixed with -ing#BOXING.

Verb

boxingCategory:English non-lemma forms#BOXINGCategory:English verb forms#BOXINGCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#BOXINGCategory:Pages with entries#BOXINGCategory:Pages with 1 entry#BOXING

  1. present participle and gerund of box

Noun

A boxing match.

boxing (uncountable)Category:English lemmas#BOXINGCategory:English nouns#BOXINGCategory:English uncountable nouns#BOXINGCategory:English uncountable nouns#BOXINGCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#BOXINGCategory:Pages with entries#BOXINGCategory:Pages with 1 entry#BOXING

  1. (sportsCategory:en:Sports#BOXING) 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.
    • 2024 May 24, Timothy Garton Ash, “Ukraine can still recover with bolder western support – but right now it’s on the ropes”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN, archived from the original on 14 December 2024:
      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 Tyson Fury, but then came back to win on points at the end of a brutal 12 rounds.
      Category:English terms with quotations#BOXING
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Etymology 2

From box +‎ -ingCategory:English terms suffixed with -ing#BOXING.

Noun

boxing (plural boxings)Category:English lemmas#BOXINGCategory:English nouns#BOXINGCategory:English countable nouns#BOXINGCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#BOXINGCategory:Pages with entries#BOXINGCategory:Pages with 1 entry#BOXING

  1. Material used for making boxes or casing.
  2. (constructionCategory:en:Construction#BOXING) Casing.
  3. (object-oriented programmingCategory:en:Object-oriented programming#BOXING) Automatic conversion of value types to objects by wrapping them within a heap-allocated reference type.
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  • (antonym(s) of “programming”): unboxing
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boxingCategory:English non-lemma forms#BOXINGCategory:English verb forms#BOXINGCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#BOXINGCategory:Pages with entries#BOXINGCategory:Pages with 1 entry#BOXING

  1. present participle and gerund of box
Category:en:Boxing#BOXING
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