boxing
boxing Lexical Profile
boxing Game Scores & Validity
• noun
A combat sport and martial art in which two participants, wearing padded gloves, throw punches at each other for a predetermined number of rounds in a roped ring.
"He began training in amateur boxing at a local gymnasium to improve his cardiovascular fitness and footwork."
The act or process of packing, enclosing, or storing items inside boxes.
"The warehouse staff completed the boxing of the fragile glassware ahead of the afternoon shipment."
Material used to construct boxes or a protective box-like casing enclosing pipes, wiring, or structural elements.
"The carpenter installed plywood boxing around the exposed plumbing in the bathroom."
• Rhymes for boxing
Word Origin & Etymology
The sport sense derives from the 14th-century noun and verb 'box' meaning 'a blow or strike', of uncertain origin but possibly related to Middle Dutch 'boke' or an imitative root, combined with the suffix '-ing'. The packaging sense derives from Old English 'box' (a wooden container), borrowed from Late Latin 'buxis' and Ancient Greek 'pyxis' (a boxwood receptacle).