the box
Living room screen
The box refers to television, from the boxy shape of older TV sets: What's on the box tonight?
The phrase persists even as screens have flattened.
In sports, the box is a marked rectangular area—the penalty box in soccer, the batter's box in baseball.
In theater, the box office is where tickets are sold, and box office also means commercial success: The film did well at the box office.
- cardboardRigid paper for containers
- crateContainer for transport
- cartonPaperboard packaging container
- treasure chestLocked box for valuables
- constraintLimiting condition or rule
coffin · boundary · mindset · restriction · toolbox · paradigm · limit · chest · casket · trunk · package · lid · container · television · tape · storage · rectangular · corners
- metonymsWall Street, Hollywood, Capitol Hill, Downing Street, Westminster
the boxopen space
Unobstructed outdoor area
freedom · the void · empty space · the wild · boundlessness
the boxoutside the box
Beyond conventional boundaries
innovation · creativity · lateral thinking · creative freedom · blue-sky thinking
box, the, boxing, boxes, boxed, sandbox, mailbox, icebox, jukebox