What is "boxes"

Box \Box\, n.; pl. Boxes [As. box a small case or vessel with a cover; akin to OHG. buhsa box, G. b["u]chse; fr. L. buxus boxwood, anything made of boxwood. See Pyx, and cf. Box a tree, Bushel.]

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

2. The quantity that a box contain.

3. 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.
   --Dorset.

   The boxes and the pit are sovereign judges.
   --Dryden.

4. 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.
   --J. Warton.

5. A small country house. ``A shooting box.''
   --Wilson.

   Tight boxes neatly sashed.
   --Cowper.

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

7. (Mach)

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

   2. A chamber or section of tube in which a valve works; the bucket of a lifting pump.

8. The driver's seat on a carriage or coach.

9. A present in a box; a present; esp. a Christmas box or gift. ``A Christmas box.''
   --Dickens.

10. (Baseball) The square in which the pitcher stands.

11. (Zo["o]l.) A Mediterranean food fish; the bogue.

    Note: Box is much used adjectively or in composition; as box lid, box maker, box circle, etc.; also with modifying substantives; as money box, letter box, bandbox, hatbox or hat box, snuff box or snuffbox.

    Box beam (Arch.), a beam made of metal plates so as to have the form of a long box.

    Box car (Railroads), a freight car covered with a roof and inclosed on the sides to protect its contents.

    Box chronometer, a ship's chronometer, mounted in gimbals, to preserve its proper position.

    Box coat, a thick overcoat for driving; sometimes with a heavy cape to carry off the rain.

    Box coupling, a metal collar uniting the ends of shafts or other parts in machinery.

    Box crab (Zo["o]l.), a crab of the genus Calappa, which, when at rest with the legs retracted, resembles a box.

    Box drain (Arch.), a drain constructed with upright sides, and with flat top and bottom.

    Box girder (Arch.), a box beam.

    Box groove (Metal Working), a closed groove between two rolls, formed by a collar on one roll fitting between collars on another.
    --R. W. Raymond.

    Box metal, an alloy of copper and tin, or of zinc, lead, and antimony, for the bearings of journals, etc.

    Box plait, a plait that doubles both to the right and the left.

    Box turtle or

    Box tortoise (Zo["o]l.), a land tortoise or turtle of the genera Cistudo and Emys; -- so named because it can withdraw entirely within its shell, which can be closed by hinged joints in the lower shell. Also, humorously, an exceedingly reticent person.
    --Emerson.

    In a box, in a perplexity or an embarrassing position; in difficulty. (Colloq.)

    In the wrong box, out of one's place; out of one's element; awkwardly situated. (Colloq.)
    --Ridley (1554)

n. (plural of box English) vb. (en-third-person singular of: box)

Boxes is a soundtrack album by Australian band Icehouse, released by Festival Records / Chrysalis Records in November 1985. The work was originally conceived by its composers, Iva Davies and Robert Kretschmer, in collaboration with choreographer Graeme Murphy of the Sydney Dance Company for performance as the ballet Boxes. The first live performance of Boxes was given by the Sydney Dance Company together with Davies and Kretschmer of Icehouse and guest percussionist Masaki Tanazawa in the Opera Theatre of the Sydney Opera House on 7 November 1985. Boxes was released in the US under the name Sydney Dance Company. The single " No Promises" was released as a 12" in November and a cassingle in December on Regular Records for Australian and New Zealand markets, it contained other tracks from Boxes; two tracks from Boxes were later released on their next studio album Measure for Measure in April 1986.

Boxes is a 2007 French film and the directorial debut of Jane Birkin. Birkin also stars alongside Geraldine Chaplin and Michel Piccoli. The film is based on Birkin's own family life, chronicling three marriages and the three children she bore from these marriages. The title alludes to the way in which she compartmentalises these relationships and stages of her life. The film was nominated for the Grand Prix at the Bratislava International Film Festival. The film was screened in Un Certain Regard at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival on 21 May. It was released in France on 6 June 2007.

Boxes is the eleventh studio album by American rock band Goo Goo Dolls. It was released on May 6, 2016, through Warner Bros. Records. It marks the band's first album since A Boy Named Goo recorded without drummer Mike Malinin, who was removed from the band in 2013. Upon, release, Boxes debuted and peaked at #27 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, with first week sales of 15,000 copies. The album marks the first studio album released by the band to not debut in the top ten since 1998's Dizzy Up The Girl.