ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Box-like

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Box-like is an adjective meaning Alternative form of boxlike.

Meaning

Alternative form of boxlike.

Example Sentences

Once inside it widens, but only to make room for a big box-like building with the worn and greasy look of the slum tenement that is stamped alike on the houses and their tenants down here, […]
The majority of locomotive bodies have vertical sides, partly to simplify construction and partly to make the utmost use of the permissible loading gauge. This tends to produce a box-like appearance, which is uninteresting in itself but can be improved [...].

Related Words

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