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单词 boxy
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Definition of boxy in English:

boxy

adjectiveboxier, boxiest ˈbɒksiˈbäksē
  • 1Squarish in shape.

    四四方方的;宽松直统的

    a boxy jacket

    宽松的夹克。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • And to be fair, the look of Robots - inspired by the boxy, streamlined look of mid-20 th-century cars and kitchen appliances - does have some charm.
    • A boxy, low-lying structure about 2 feet tall was surmounted by precarious, spindly towers outfitted with tiny ladders rising to a height of 6 feet.
    • The fifties story continues too with brightly coloured boxy jackets, pretty frocks, knife pleat dresses and printed dirndl skirt dominating the a/wear summer scene.
    • For men, the messenger bag is still in, but this season it looks more ‘grown up’ in leather, with a boxy shape.
    • The valets at the Argyle wear boxy grey uniforms that look like overwashed costumes from a 30s musical.
    • She does tend to look a bit boxy, especially when her shoulders are toned just-so.
    • I just adore these shiny structured boxy jackets.
    • The exterior locations benefit also from the inherent visual drama of wood-frame houses and boxy, refitted mill buildings seen against the tumescent Berkshire hills.
    • Although 25% of American households have at least one, many interior designers hate this boxy, tactless armchair.
    • Looking at the unit itself, it seems to be fairly sturdy, which is not a surprise considering its boxy shape.
    • Toyota and Honda are placing their bets on highly utilitarian boxy shapes oriented towards outdoor recreation.
    • The big, boxy home entertainment technologies of that era - radio, television, and record players - produced images and sounds that parents could see and hear.
    • These TV's were very big, very boxy, and not in color.
    • The Saab is perhaps the more ‘traditional’ looking of the two with a higher roofline and slightly more boxy shape.
    • She was not wearing a bland suit with a loose-fitting skirt and short boxy jacket with a pair of sensible pumps.
    • There is also another vehicle built by them and just called ‘Beijing Jeep’ - a cheap boxy beast which at its peak in 1995 saw 80,000 vehicles sold.
    • A set-in waistband hints at a waist, while the flared hemline softens a boxy shape.
    • The first Jeep boom box was retro - with analog knobs, deep yellow color, and a boxy shape.
    • They presented a huge black miniature city made of machine parts, complete with railroads, an aircraft hangar, boxy apartment blocks, factories and power stations.
    • Next door to a rose-colored, angel-bedecked church, the boxy school glowers behind barred gates like those that surround prisons.
    1. 1.1 (of a room or space) cramped.
      (房间或空间)狭促的
      the diagonal floor pattern makes the room seem less boxy
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Fashionable hipsters and art patrons mingled in the boxy gallery tucked in New York's chic Chelsea district.
      • Mick is a typical twenty something Essex boy, clerking in the Accounts Department of a local business, living in a boxy flat, and hanging out in the bars and clubs of Basildon at weekends with his little gang.
      • It's boxy, but you can't beat a 3,000 sq ft home for less than $200k.
      • I was led into a small, boxy room, its open wall concealed by a curtain, to try on the dress.
      • The shortage of property in the south means that boxy apartments and bog-standard houses in London's squashed suburbs sell for silly money.
      • But she was undeniably alienated in our boxy house, and I could often catch her sad face fixed on a slant of autumn light or a gray squirrel, precarious on a wire.
      • A boxy venue that's been begging for the ambience of a real nightclub finally gets transformed… just don't mind the construction work.
      • They loved the charming exterior and intimate feel of the 1939 saltbox, but the interior layout of boxy little rooms was slightly claustrophobic.
      • Families are piled in boxy, concrete rooms capped with corrugated tin roofs weighed down by rocks.
      • After eating, Jhudora guided Matt to his bedroom, a small boxy room with a closet.
      • Jo and her husband live sandwiched between Jason and Amelia, possibly in a row of terraced houses or one of those modern, boxy maisonettes with paper-thin walls.
      • I'd immediately see how boxy and small they were,’ says Isherwood.
      • So I ordered some gumbo to take home as I watched a zydeco band set up beneath a long painted mural that dominated the boxy space.
      • Once a boxy room with a tiny adjoining cloakroom, it has been transformed into a contemporary double bedroom with sleeping platform and luxurious en-suite wet room.
      • No-one makes them live in those boxy little flats on sprawling council estates, after all.
      • This in turn required every heated room to adjoin a chimney, dictating compact, boxy floor plans.
      • In New York, it played at the Film Forum, an admirable NYC institution, but also a boxy venue with so little ambience that it may as well be the big screen TV in an eccentric friend's basement.
      • In a boxy home with a boxy garden, a clockwork family lives a clockwork life.
      • These rooms are more boxy and spartan, but with a picture window onto the rocks and sea, you're drawn to the external rather than the internal vista.
      • I suspect those who succeed in humiliating people this way probably deserve to be single and shut in their boxy homes watching DVDs while growing fat on ice cream.
      Synonyms
      little, small-scale, compact, bijou
    2. 1.2 (of recorded sound) restricted in tone.
      (录音)音色不丰满的,闷在箱子里似的
      speakers when poorly designed can sound boxy and boomy
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Outstanding beauty was marred by boxy acoustics and the artificiality of studio work.
      • Body-miked and artificially boosted in the National's boxy acoustic, the music does not sound anything like opera (unless you listen to opera on jogging headphones).
      • The remastering improves the original album's boxy sound; ‘Spring Rain’ finally swaggers instead of plods, as it always should have.
      • My only qualm on this album is the rather boxy sound of this overture, but this is a minor misgiving when compared to the joys on offer.
      • The sound overall can get a bit boxy sounding at times.
      • They are a great for apartments but they usually have a boxy sound.
      • Unfortunately, the drums do present a problem on ‘Delirious’, a boxy, somewhat shrill piece that utilizes spare, dissonant guitar lines.
      • At times, the recording may seem a bit boxy but on the whole, it has transferred well to disc.
      • The songs sound like they were recorded on a cassette tape; the sound is muddy, boxy, and dull, with little stereo separation.
      • The primitive sound system gives the mic'd music a boxy quality with glare on anything loud or high.
      • At times, the acoustic of the Stefaniesaal in Graz is rather boxy but the slow movement and Finale certainly benefit from Fischer's no-nonsense direction.
      • They make the most of a modest budget, turning crackly mics and boxy drum sounds into a virtue.
      • Particularly in the Third, he and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra are let down by the boxy recording, which swallows orchestral detail and produces unmusical balances.
      • The sound is the dry, boxy one favored by Columbia throughout much of its history.
      • There's still no give to their boxy style of guitar playing.
      • When a wedge sounds boxy, it is often blamed on the preponderance of room modes in a live performance space.

Rhymes

doxy, epoxy, foxy, moxie, poxy, proxy

Definition of boxy in US English:

boxy

adjectiveˈbäksē
  • 1Squarish in shape.

    四四方方的;宽松直统的

    a boxy jacket

    宽松的夹克。

    nondescript highrises, boxy and uniform
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Looking at the unit itself, it seems to be fairly sturdy, which is not a surprise considering its boxy shape.
    • They presented a huge black miniature city made of machine parts, complete with railroads, an aircraft hangar, boxy apartment blocks, factories and power stations.
    • Next door to a rose-colored, angel-bedecked church, the boxy school glowers behind barred gates like those that surround prisons.
    • The first Jeep boom box was retro - with analog knobs, deep yellow color, and a boxy shape.
    • The valets at the Argyle wear boxy grey uniforms that look like overwashed costumes from a 30s musical.
    • A boxy, low-lying structure about 2 feet tall was surmounted by precarious, spindly towers outfitted with tiny ladders rising to a height of 6 feet.
    • A set-in waistband hints at a waist, while the flared hemline softens a boxy shape.
    • Toyota and Honda are placing their bets on highly utilitarian boxy shapes oriented towards outdoor recreation.
    • The Saab is perhaps the more ‘traditional’ looking of the two with a higher roofline and slightly more boxy shape.
    • These TV's were very big, very boxy, and not in color.
    • The big, boxy home entertainment technologies of that era - radio, television, and record players - produced images and sounds that parents could see and hear.
    • The exterior locations benefit also from the inherent visual drama of wood-frame houses and boxy, refitted mill buildings seen against the tumescent Berkshire hills.
    • For men, the messenger bag is still in, but this season it looks more ‘grown up’ in leather, with a boxy shape.
    • There is also another vehicle built by them and just called ‘Beijing Jeep’ - a cheap boxy beast which at its peak in 1995 saw 80,000 vehicles sold.
    • The fifties story continues too with brightly coloured boxy jackets, pretty frocks, knife pleat dresses and printed dirndl skirt dominating the a/wear summer scene.
    • She does tend to look a bit boxy, especially when her shoulders are toned just-so.
    • She was not wearing a bland suit with a loose-fitting skirt and short boxy jacket with a pair of sensible pumps.
    • And to be fair, the look of Robots - inspired by the boxy, streamlined look of mid-20 th-century cars and kitchen appliances - does have some charm.
    • I just adore these shiny structured boxy jackets.
    • Although 25% of American households have at least one, many interior designers hate this boxy, tactless armchair.
    1. 1.1 (of a room or space) cramped.
      (房间或空间)狭促的
      the children are too old to share this boxy bedroom
      Example sentencesExamples
      • In a boxy home with a boxy garden, a clockwork family lives a clockwork life.
      • I was led into a small, boxy room, its open wall concealed by a curtain, to try on the dress.
      • It's boxy, but you can't beat a 3,000 sq ft home for less than $200k.
      • Mick is a typical twenty something Essex boy, clerking in the Accounts Department of a local business, living in a boxy flat, and hanging out in the bars and clubs of Basildon at weekends with his little gang.
      • Families are piled in boxy, concrete rooms capped with corrugated tin roofs weighed down by rocks.
      • The shortage of property in the south means that boxy apartments and bog-standard houses in London's squashed suburbs sell for silly money.
      • But she was undeniably alienated in our boxy house, and I could often catch her sad face fixed on a slant of autumn light or a gray squirrel, precarious on a wire.
      • After eating, Jhudora guided Matt to his bedroom, a small boxy room with a closet.
      • These rooms are more boxy and spartan, but with a picture window onto the rocks and sea, you're drawn to the external rather than the internal vista.
      • This in turn required every heated room to adjoin a chimney, dictating compact, boxy floor plans.
      • In New York, it played at the Film Forum, an admirable NYC institution, but also a boxy venue with so little ambience that it may as well be the big screen TV in an eccentric friend's basement.
      • No-one makes them live in those boxy little flats on sprawling council estates, after all.
      • So I ordered some gumbo to take home as I watched a zydeco band set up beneath a long painted mural that dominated the boxy space.
      • Jo and her husband live sandwiched between Jason and Amelia, possibly in a row of terraced houses or one of those modern, boxy maisonettes with paper-thin walls.
      • They loved the charming exterior and intimate feel of the 1939 saltbox, but the interior layout of boxy little rooms was slightly claustrophobic.
      • I suspect those who succeed in humiliating people this way probably deserve to be single and shut in their boxy homes watching DVDs while growing fat on ice cream.
      • A boxy venue that's been begging for the ambience of a real nightclub finally gets transformed… just don't mind the construction work.
      • Fashionable hipsters and art patrons mingled in the boxy gallery tucked in New York's chic Chelsea district.
      • I'd immediately see how boxy and small they were,’ says Isherwood.
      • Once a boxy room with a tiny adjoining cloakroom, it has been transformed into a contemporary double bedroom with sleeping platform and luxurious en-suite wet room.
      Synonyms
      little, small-scale, compact, bijou
    2. 1.2 (of recorded sound) restricted in tone.
      (录音)音色不丰满的,闷在箱子里似的
      Example sentencesExamples
      • They are a great for apartments but they usually have a boxy sound.
      • The sound is the dry, boxy one favored by Columbia throughout much of its history.
      • When a wedge sounds boxy, it is often blamed on the preponderance of room modes in a live performance space.
      • Body-miked and artificially boosted in the National's boxy acoustic, the music does not sound anything like opera (unless you listen to opera on jogging headphones).
      • There's still no give to their boxy style of guitar playing.
      • At times, the acoustic of the Stefaniesaal in Graz is rather boxy but the slow movement and Finale certainly benefit from Fischer's no-nonsense direction.
      • They make the most of a modest budget, turning crackly mics and boxy drum sounds into a virtue.
      • My only qualm on this album is the rather boxy sound of this overture, but this is a minor misgiving when compared to the joys on offer.
      • The sound overall can get a bit boxy sounding at times.
      • Particularly in the Third, he and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra are let down by the boxy recording, which swallows orchestral detail and produces unmusical balances.
      • The songs sound like they were recorded on a cassette tape; the sound is muddy, boxy, and dull, with little stereo separation.
      • The primitive sound system gives the mic'd music a boxy quality with glare on anything loud or high.
      • Unfortunately, the drums do present a problem on ‘Delirious’, a boxy, somewhat shrill piece that utilizes spare, dissonant guitar lines.
      • Outstanding beauty was marred by boxy acoustics and the artificiality of studio work.
      • The remastering improves the original album's boxy sound; ‘Spring Rain’ finally swaggers instead of plods, as it always should have.
      • At times, the recording may seem a bit boxy but on the whole, it has transferred well to disc.
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